The issue is that even the same brand can have multiple USB fingerprint scanners, which may not all work.
From a 4y old reddit thread some person found a fingerprint scanner which worked, but some other person who had a similar one didn't get it ot work.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/gc8a2e/i_finally_found_a_cheap_usb_fingerprint_reader/
Another article, much better and presents in more detail that Olvid was audited on an older version and chosen because it was French and they applied for it (French) https://www.numerama.com/tech/1575168-pourquoi-les-ministres-vont-devoir-renoncer-a-whatsapp-signal-et-telegram.html
Currently, there are some alternatives, or bluetooth versions which work pretty well.
Often wireless gaming brands offer a usb dongle. That dongle often uses a proprietary protocol over 2.4ghz. And allow enough bandwidth for audio and mic. Some brand give more or less bandwidth to the mic, or have better compression, or bandwidth.
And currently, there is a fairly "new", already here since bt 5.3 : LC3. It's a very well optimised protocol which allows for about the same quality at lower bandwidth than other protocol. It also has lower latency. This protocol has started to be used by gaming brands, like Creative, in a usb dongle. Or even in standalone headphones. On the Creative headset, it would allow enough bandwidth for audio and mic without much compromise (like if it wad a proprietary dongle).
Obviously the quality may not be as good as wired. But it should be enough for most people.
Huawei also seems to have announced (not sure if yet released, it should be in an honor phone), their bluetooth competitor. They say 6x faster (more bandwidth I guess) https://newatlas.com/mobile-technology/nearlink-wireless-huawei/.
There are some useful things in there, but it can get complicated. If i could get to Linux I wouldn't need a lot of this stuff, or at least I wouldn't need to think about it.
Tho I can't get to it yet (and no I'm not willing to do a windows vm), because of 2 things :
I'm playing warframe, and sometimes I open alecafrale in the background with the overlays to know what reward to pick. And it seems they overwolf and the app is not compatible with Linux, at least from what I could read.
I am using gpu virtualisation to share my pc occasionally with my brother. And on Linux, there is an alternative with LIBVF.IO. but sadly, not compatible with newer amd gpus, or at least from the tutorial and arch wiki, pretty complicated to make it run, if even possible.
When these 2 things would be fixed, maybe I'll consider it, if i don't have to switch to windows every 2 days...
Sure stay in your extremist childish thinking.
I'm f amazed at the news getting out of the French Parlement, where a party refuses to vote a proposition aligning with their view just because it's a very opposite party.
Wtf are they f children there?
It's the exact same thing I see in your comment.
Then maybe I can make you discover a very nice tool : Winget or chocolatey whichever you want to use. They both can be used in cli.
However, I personally like the WingetUI software. Nice looking and supports winget, chocolatey, scoop and other. It also automatically checks for updates. It can either give you a notification, or maybe even auto update. Tho I'm not sure if it would solve your complete reinstall each time.
To install wingetUI : Search for powershel > open without administrator privilege > type "winget install wingetui" > enter. Follow and read.
Once installed you ca launch it and choose the sources (I recommend selecting winget and chocolatey at least, I like winget better than chocolatey as version numbers are closer to the real one). it also auto updates on launch.
And to install it, just search for it :
You can also install though winget or chocolatey without wingetui, but you'll have to update manually through the cli.
I like Firefox mostly because it's cool to have engine competition. I mostly use the default dark theme. It looks good enough for me. I don't look much at the top when browsing.
On android it's still lagging behind the chromium competition. And having mismatched browsers isn't great for syncing. So I just use Firefox on android too, good enough.
Tho, if miss matching wasn't an issue, personally I think I would use Kiwi browser. It's an open source chromium browser which supports chrome extensions.
The guy who gets scammed by a fake women bot account.
The person who reads a lazy ai article.
It benefits a lot of people, but not the ones who have a direct use of the ai for themselves.
You are. It's much more.
It's the extreme optimisation event. Glitch your way through to get lower amount of time possible, and farm as many formas as possible, and other stuff.
It's a space infestation coming to the plains, with a lephantis brother as a boss.
And damn I optimized the s out it the last time. Stay on that specific rock, to with wisp... To spawn the boss faster to that spot. And farmed the crap out of it. I got 250 formas from there (+ ghoulf saw, zaw heads and exodia contagion)
I don't think you look at it from the right way.
AI is already in a lot of people's lifes and they don't even notice it's that.
From your keyboard word correction and prediction, to power management, smart image edition and categorising and more.
And some things are done locally on your phone.
The increase in AI capability on phones can allow more things to be done locally, and maybe even get something like a local LLM to predict what you want to type. (LLM = large language model, like chatgpt, bard, Llama and others, they can be used for more than just answering your questions).
Don't use duckduck.com it may not lead to the expected result.
Well the issue with renewable power like wind and solar, is that they are not stable.
Having a battery in order to store the energy and release it when the demand is higher than production is one part of the solution.
But what happens when there wasn't enough solar and wind to replenish the batteries if those batteries aren't enough for the demand? Power shortages, which are pretty bad to get.
One of the solutions to this is natural gas for a simple reason : it's very fast to start generating power or to stop. It's also not very expensive, at least when there isn't a war... The co2 equivalent emissions aren't as high as coal either.
Nuclear power on the other hand is very hard to stop. Having a surplus of power on the grid is also very bad. Some of it could be used to recharge the batteries, but there would be some loss at some point.