Bus 001 Device 059: ID 05ba:000a DigitalPersona, Inc. Fingerprint Reader

It shows up exactly the same for all the revisions though.

Thankfully the Framework Laptop fingerprint reader works.

I use the DigitalPersona 4500 with libfprint. Unfortunately, there are multiple revisions of the device with the same model number and only some of them work properly under Linux (different encryption method I believe). As far as I know this is not actually documented anywhere. Googling just shows a bunch of unresolved bug reports of people having no idea why it doesn’t work.

For windows I either use a mingw toolchain from mxe.cc or just run the msvc compiler in wine, works great for standard C and C++ at least, even when you use Qt or other third party libraries.

We can see you totally didn’t do that. Also how would you even get the update?

Open Technology Fund

Which is funded by US Congress, and they also funded Signal.

For those do not wish to use privacy-related projects funded by a world government, what is a good (in your opinion) alternative? Both with and without Tor involvement (since US govt funded that too).

Yes I realize encryption, computers and the internet are all also govt-funded, but everyone is free to pick their battles.

It’s also possible the number of people who like it do not outnumber the people who don’t like it

I use this one and it is definitely much stronger (and louder) than any can of air I’ve ever used. Stronger as in more volume AND velocity.

On a hot day it literally cools my entire body down.

plot twist the poster is Empress

What I do is use the “Arch Linux Archive” repo and set it to a specific date, which has a snapshot of all the packages from that time. That way I don’t have to update all the time but can still install packages whenever I want. When I feel like updating then I just increase the date in the mirror URL. In pacman.conf you would set it like so: Server=https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/2024/08/30/$repo/os/$arch

Several solutions have already been posted in here, please do not try to act authoritative when you don’t know the answer. We already saw you asked what VNC is.

People hate being told to use magnetic tape

Because there are still horror stories of them falling apart and not lasting even in proper controlled conditions

just move

this is dangerous advice. courts can still subpoena the usenet provider for your information.

yes

$700 for an N100 tablet? Yikes. I can’t imagine they would sell enough to stay in business.

No, something being objective or not is still someone’s opinion ultimately. And there’s still no right or wrong. There’s subjective and objective, though.

it objectively depends on the design of each individual phone

There is no right or wrong, it’s all subjective opinion.

Most people don’t use them and never did, all the people downvoting are just salty because they’re not the target audience.