Print the recovery codes! For security!

Of course to do that I need to go to a public library where I have no idea if they keep copies, and where someone might mistakenly take them from the printer, which is very far away from the computer you must use to print.

Don't explicitly label the codes with their corresponding accounts on the print out, just print the actual codes. Write the corresponding accounts in later. Recovery codes don't do much unless you know where to use them.

grab a pen and something to write on (worst case: buy a pen and write on receipt paper). write down single recovery code to cloud storage thingy. store other recovery codes there.

Can't you just print them to PDF?

And store that PDF where? Inside your Google drive which you can’t access within your t that PDF? On the same device you just lost?

If you suggest “on a thumb drive kept offline” you’ve just recreated all the problems of physical FIDO keys without offering any phishing protection.

You could just store them in a separate password manager like BitWarden? Or even encrypted in a separate Dropbox account?

Ultimately if you want to be able to recover your identity from anywhere in the world with absolutely nothing on you except cash (to buy a new device and service), you have to store this data somewhere. And you wouldn’t store this data in the same place that you’re trying to recover because that’s not very useful.

Is it without risk? No, but there is no risk-less way to be able to recover a piece of data once you lose all your possessions somewhere random in the world because the only thing you have left that you can still use is what you know.

> you have to store this data somewhere

Hmm, what if you stored it in your head? Maybe we could call it a password?