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GamingOnLinux ☛ New US Congress bill proposal requires all operating system providers to verify ages | GamingOnLinux
We've covered here before on individual US states setting up their own age verification laws, and now a new US Congress bill has been proposed for it. If passed, this would then potentially set it all up to be nation-wide across the entirety of the US.
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Tedium ☛ Linux & Fingerprint Readers: A Tough Combination
This is not exactly hardened like a YubiKey or Titan device might be, but if your goal is to offer a modest amount of convenience, it could be just enough to make your life slightly easier. (Odds are, a snooper isn’t going to have a fingerprint reader of their own that matches yours—much like most people aren’t going to go to the trouble of [cracking] a device via its Thunderbolt connection.)
So, what’s the solution here? I think the best thing would be if manufacturers intentionally took steps to support fingerprint readers on Linux, but that doesn’t seem to be happening any time soon. So the alternative: Chinese manufacturers should probably explain what chip they used in the description of the device they’re selling. Currently, they don’t, and that presumably leads a lot of nerds to buy these devices, learn the devices don’t work on Linux, and immediately return them. That has to be costing them money.
There’s another solution that might be staring you in the face as you’re reading this: A lot of Android phones have fingerprint scanners already. Why not use one of those as your authentication tool, rather than doing Temu dumpster diving? I didn’t see any projects that formalized this, though I have seen some hacky solutions on GitHub. KDE Connect, the widely used phone connection tool, could be a great choice for a user-friendly version of this.
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HowTo Geek ☛ Linux is better than ever—but these 4 problems still push me back to Windows
I want to love Linux, I really do. The problem is, I can’t. I’ve tried time and time again to run Linux as a desktop operating system, and these four problems keep pushing me right back into Microsoft’s deathly hold.
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Make Use Of ☛ Sorry, Windows and Linux: this is still the better OS for developers
These days, I run both, a Linux and macOS combo, and it works really well for me.