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But they are annoying. Like it's fine if you only use one device, but I don't fucking know where my phone is, that's why I am on my laptop
Agreed, but it can be better, with open solutions.
If you use a popular open source OTP solution (like Aegis), you can export your tokens (carefully) as an encrypted file from your phone, and then import them to another popular open OTP solution on the laptop.
Alternately, one can also set up each separate device as a separate authorized token for each service - for many services.
I like the import/export solution, because even for services dumb enough to only allow "one token", I can still have that token on two or more devices.