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Doh : (

At least we have a valid excuse for not adopting fingerprint biometrics… Minor bright side, I guess.

I;m thinking about thos Beans

That’s the one. Are you a fellow lizard person that sheds your skin regularly like me?

Every time work pushes to use 100% biometrics I have to argue and get an exception.

I’ve got form of eczema where two to four times a year all the skin on my hands flakes and falls off… There are weeks when I have no fingerprints.

They’ve only brought up facial recognition once and I said it didn’t work reliably due to my skin color and facial hair. I have no idea if that’s true, never tried it, never will, but they didn’t pursue it any further.

I always enjoy throwing out the “if you force that, there will be about two months a year where I won’t be able to login… That’s up to you, but you have to document it so I can forward it to my manager and make them aware”. Unfortunately they haven’t forced it yet.

“Stephen, what are you doing?”

This one is old enough that the back is easily removable and battery easily replaceable. I went through three in it’s life of daily usage. It was the lack of updates that made it unusable day to day. It was crazy “slow” too but a factory reset helped a lot.

I popped fdroid on it yesterday but there was no version of termux there that will run on Android 5.0.1.

I found another terminal emulator that seems to work. Don’t recall the name offhand but I’d never heard of it.

…fdroid wasn’t trivial because the phone has certs so old that it couldn’t communicate with the repos until I manually downloaded and installed a newer cert.

I still have my previous phone… S5 that I used for seven years until it couldn’t get updates and I “needed” some apps that wouldn’t run on the old android version (I don’t remember what they were at this point or if there was a way around it).

It’s been sitting on my desk for the past 5 years waiting for a purpose. The battery is shot but it still “works”. Maybe this is that purpose because I was specifically looking for something like this a few months back …because I thought it would be funny to have that phone as a server.

When it got banned in my area the “expert” witness supporting the ban was someone who owned a pain management clinic that primarily prescribed pills.

… No conflict there, no siree.