MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by leviathant on Monday October 18, 2021 @03:46PM (#28910628)

I'm not who you are replying to, but as someone with a condition that leads to dry, cracked skin on my fingertips, it's not that I can't use a keyboard, it's that fingerprint scanning doesn't work for me. Thankfully it's not the only way to unlock a MBP.

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by dijit on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:08PM (#28911772)

This is going to sound awfully like shilling. But I’m a large fan of the “unlock with Apple Watch” feature of the Mac; and I’ve tried to reverse engineer it for Linux.

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by reificator on Monday October 18, 2021 @07:20PM (#28913088)

Look into KDE Connect which has a similar feature. Not proximity based as far as I know, but it handles the hard part of unlocking the device.

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by eugeniub on Monday October 18, 2021 @10:45PM (#28914327)

My problem with it is it only works 75% of the time. Another 15% of the time it just hangs indefinitely. And 10% it just doesn't even try.

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