[wkat4242]

For you maybe, not for me. I'm pretty good with arbitary strings. And I'd only use specials that don't require shift :) It's really much faster and I have RSI so I don't want to type too much.

Luckily my work still allows 10-char with specials or passphrases of 16 and longer without. And don't forget passphrases only benefit in very specific situations such as hash brute forcing. Online attacks already block after a handful of attempts.

Also, the incessant screen locking really annoys me, every time I step away for a coffee my PC is locked again, and this is also at home where my environment is completely secure and I'm the only one living there. I actually work in security but sometimes there is just no reason and it becomes just a barrier.

In the past I used an app to jiggle the mouse every once in a while but that doesn't work anymore. I now made a digispark that does the same in hardware. :) I only use it at home though and it auto-locks my desktop when I leave the house (all my personal ones do too)

If they'd just allow us to use our yubikey + pin it would be so much easier and more secure...

[AstralStorm]

Use a secure element with a password manager already. Specifically, certain password managers can handle yubikey as storage.