Don’t really care for this place tbh, more active on my NixOS config repo than here while we’re at it

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Cake day: January 25th, 2025

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  • Might get one of these to replace my existing “put proprietary glowy shit on here and nowhere else” device because of the whole “banking apps are going to start enforcing recent-enough patch levels” thing (my actual main device is fine with that but I don’t want those on there, and the aforementioned other device hasn’t recieved updates in 3 years), and if the:

    promises eight years of software support through 2033

    part is true, then… may as well, someday anyway



  • not planned, sorry

    also now that I think about it, doing this sort of theme is not really a thing I’d want to be involved in (was never into “ricing” type stuff tbh), though I might just make myself do it if I really wanted to see that sight come from my own Linux install instead of OP’s




  • don’t worry though, it’s meh-ish on all distros, and nobody automatically sets it up for you (as easy as I made it out to be on NixOS, it’s not, and it was only “easy” because I’d already dealt with the driver before… in fact I had to carry over my old systemd suspend/hibernate restart script for it because it doesn’t really cooperate with waking up from sleep)…

    …unless your reader just isn’t supported at all, in which case yeah nope


  • This only really works for people who have hardware whose fingerprint readers are supported by upstream fprintd; would be interesting if they (or another distro; haven’t seen anybody implement this yet) add a “just works” option for installing and setting up e.g. libfprint-tod-vfs0090 or python-validity (which I use on two of my machines actually), similar to how some distros (Mint included I believe, but haven’t dealt with it in a while) give you an option for installing Nvidia proprietary drivers (or just make it work out of the box).

    However these drivers are extremely sketch at times so… I guess there’s some good out of it not being preconfigured for people (because you have to look into it yourself and realize just how terrifying they are, both security and stability wise, python-validity especially)…

    (though now I’m on NixOS where I have it pretty much “just work” through not that much effort, at least not as much as on Arch, and definitely not as much as on Mint which was painful because PPA fuckery)