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      Wow, a generic “Linux good, anything else dogshit” comment.

      This is in no way relevant to the topic.

      This is like if someone posted that they couldn’t get their car with the color they wanted and you saying “fuck you and your car, I can paint my living room in any color I want, right now it is striped burgundy and mint, aren’t living rooms way better than cars?”

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        and the original comment is entirely irrelevant to the original thread? You can’t be serious.

        Am i not allowed to enjoy the flexibility of linux, ever? I agree with the original poster, i think android and IOS should objectively support these features, they have no reason not to. I’ve never said otherwise, i just think they’re dogshit OS’s because they don’t support basic security features you would otherwise expect to any level of consistency.

        No, it’s more like ford only producing cars in black, and people complaining about the fact that they don’t come in any other color, and then me mentioning that actually, you can just paint your own car a different color, it’s not really that hard. But regardless of that ford only selling cars in black is a rather shitty business practice to do especially when customers want cars in other colors, because black is, rather boring.

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        It is rather “you have proprietary car where you can’t even change volume on radio, while I have car that can be repaired with standard parts”.

        With PAM you can do literal math captcha.

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          Show me a mobile phone running Linux with that config working. It doesn’t exist.

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            i wasn’t talking about phones, but the pinephone, and the pinephone64, and a handful of other phones that are supposedly running linux, that are either not out yet, or really expensive.

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              That is just a Phone model, you have yet to show me that phone being configured as you specified

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                It’s literally linux phone. It runs regular linux. Regular linux uses PAM modules. There is no difference between configuring it on desktop and on phone. If comprehending ability to use same OS on desktop and phone is beyond your intellectual ability, I will guide you with this logical chain: linux on desktop -> linux on ARM computer like raspberry pi -> linux on ARM computer based on Allwinner A64 -> PinePhone is based on Allwinner A64.

                If you still don’t grasp it, I’ll try once more. This can be installed on regular linux. Single Board Computers can run regular linux. This includes Pine64, which uses A64 chip. A64 devices can run it from sd card. And if you can’t imagine how Pine64 that works on A64 and PinePhone that works on A64 are connected, here’s neat trick: insert bootable sd card into Pine64, load linux, configure math captcha module, shut it down, insert same sd card into powered off PinePhone, power it on, it will load exact same OS your Pine64 have been using and where math captcha is configured.

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                  You still have not shown me a Phone configured as you bragged it could.

                  You don’t grasp that I am not interested in theory, I am interested in practical demonstrations.

                  My point is that it doesn’t matter if Linux xan do this, the discussion was about a mobile phone that could do both biometrics and pin at the same time.

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                    My point is that it doesn’t matter if Linux xan do this,

                    So linuxphones you don’t consider as phones? Fine.

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                    My point is that it doesn’t matter if Linux xan do this, the discussion was about a mobile phone that could do both biometrics and pin at the same time.

                    if you lack basic cognitive reasoning to the point that someone can configure PAM in a specific way on desktop linux, and that presumably, a phone running the exact same software suite, with no differences aside from graphical environment, somehow couldn’t do this is actually just kind of sad.

                    Wait until you find out how monitors display color. They have three different colors, red green and blue, and somehow, that manages to make all the funny colors on your screen. But since you can’t see the individual pixels with your naked eye, i guess that must be untrue now huh?

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      Maybe. I don’t biometrics on my computers. Only phone. I don’t unlock my computer a thousand times a day using a crappy touch kb. Actually, if the phone had a physical kb, maybe it wouldn’t have been so bad. Not sure.

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        i wouldnt really want to use biometrics on my computer either, i’d rather use a physical security key, but then i’d probably also want to use it with my phone also. So there’s that i guess.

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          The only issues I have with a yubi on a phone, is the general fragility of USB-C ports (and that there is only one). On a PC or laptop, you’ve generally got several, so if one breaks and the yubi can’t be used in that port, you’re not locked out.

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            yeah, i would be doing something more like NFC smart card type shit tbh. Perhaps an embedded chip in your hand or something. There are options.

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      You claim so and yet have no example article, video, blog post, or any form of proof of it ever being done. Everything is possible in theory, even on iOS (with a jailbreak).

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        bro i use linux, i have literally configured a fingerprint scanner to work before, do you think i’m just making up PAM?

        There is quite literally a section on the arch wiki about this being a thing.

        https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fingerprint_GUI#Password there are probably a handful of other methods of doing this notably any additional form of 2FA. (like this one is)

        although realistically, there are better ways of doing this than using biometrics, physical security keys for example.

        Also you say this like the OP actually verified that this was a thing that was impossible and couldn’t be done. You’re also acting like i claimed that this was explicitly the case, which i did not.

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          bro i use linux, i have literally configured a fingerprint scanner to work before

          So did I, can confirm it’s easy, and it doesn’t matter because we are not talking about configuring a fingerprint scanner to work, we are talking about having a phone lock screen that asks for both a fingerprint and a password, something that would require, at the very least, UI that I don’t think exists in any Linux phone project. That there is underlying functionality in PAM to make it happen is irrelevant, because that’s only part of such a solution.

          do you think i’m just making up PAM?

          No, why? I’m saying that there is no Linux phone where “you can just do this out of the box” like you say.

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            i wasn’t talking about phones, you are retconning my own thoughts lmao.

            No, why? I’m saying that there is no Linux phone where “you can just do this out of the box” like you say.

            i did not say that, not once, please show me where on the doll it says “linux phone”

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              The topic is about phones, and you said:

              Gotta love android and IOS being utter dogshit.

              If you are saying you started an offtopic conversation about Linux that had nothing to do with phones, and then, unrelated to your own comment, complained about Android and iOS even though your comment had nothing to do with phones, then… that sure is interesting.

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                no, we were talking about basic cybersecurity, or i suppose physical device security, which just happens to be relevant to phones because it turns out phones are dogshit at physical security. So i left a comment about how this is basically a solved problem on linux, because it’s not actually that hard to just implement proper security.

                I was complaining about android, because both me and the commenter i was responding to were talking about how awful security is on these devices, for no reason other than utter incompetence or forced inaction.

                This isn’t interesting, it’s a basic conversational pattern, if you haven’t spoken with enough people to realize that conversations just, shift sometimes, i feel bad for you.