The Decline of Usability

Re:The Decline of Usability by jodrellblank on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:46PM (#22904921)

Windows 10 with Windows Hello does face recognition logon without any need to swipe or press key combinations. On a touchscreen, it responds to a swipe upwards. On a machine with a keyboard it responds to apparently any mouse click or keypress.

Presumably Gnome copypasted it from Windows, because otherwise where did that idea come from into multiple distinct projects simultaneously? Windows has always had ctrl+alt+del to logon, Ubuntu hasn't had a precedent of having to do something to get to the logon prompt, IIRC.

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Re:The Decline of Usability by p1necone on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:51PM (#22904949)

Windows hello is such a nice experience (at least just for local login), but I will never use it because I don't trust Microsoft with my data.

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Re:The Decline of Usability by jodrellblank on Saturday April 18, 2020 @10:51PM (#22913084)

"the info that identifies your face, iris, or fingerprint never leaves your device." - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468253/windows-10-...

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Re:The Decline of Usability by coribuci on Sunday April 19, 2020 @06:07PM (#22919192)

> "the info that identifies your face, iris, or fingerprint never leaves your device." - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4468253/windows-10-....

Of course not.

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Re:The Decline of Usability by jodrellblank on Monday April 20, 2020 @12:35AM (#22921117)

Of course not what?

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