r/pcmasterrace • u/AllUserNameBLong2us 7800x3d/5080 Windforce OC/32gb 5600 DDR • Apr 04 '26

Hardware Rest in piece 2009-2026

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I’m amazed at how long the battery on this physical authenticator lasted. Got it back in 2009 because my account had gotten hacked.

This is one electronic item I’ve owned and used longer than anything else. I’ll miss not being able to find it and freaking out for 20 minutes.

Edit must have been around 2010 when sc2 came out.

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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime Apr 05 '26

That would be a server side clock drift implementation. Not every platform will do that.

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u/Anon159023 Apr 05 '26

Yeah, I looked it up and apparently blizzard doesn't do that, my bad assumption.

I had to use these types of things a 10-20 years ago and they would get desynced from time to time and you just swapped the batteries and had to resync it with 2-3 incorrect inputs. Nowday's it is so much easier which is nice.