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Passkeys are a mitigation against users being bad at password hygiene and phishing being a real issue to users.

You can't phish a passkey, and you don't rely on the user providing you 'hunter2' on every site.

As for vendor lock in? No. The specs are open. You can run the code on a microcontroller, or, you can keep it in your arm with something like the Vivokey Apex. Note that the FIDO2 for the Apex is an open source Javacard applet.

The UX on the other hand is not great. If you have a password manager, your OS may prompt you which target to store the passkey with.

I think that an overview of how the machinery works and how it interfaces would be interesting.

As a side note, I do enjoy the bizarre bowling animations that the screens come up with.

Net Zero isn't what sets the price of UK electricity generation.

Marginal pricing means that gas sets the price.

At time of writing, gas is only generating 6.9% of the UK's electricity. https://grid.iamkate.com/

Unfortunately, any viral infection can leave lasting damage too.

One of the outcomes of COVID was more awareness of post-viral syndromes.

I like the little Mini PCs.

I have a GMKtec nucbox with an Intel N100 and an M5 Plus.

The biggest issues with them are around firmware and power consumption, especially idle. It's hard to get them as low as some of the bigger vendor devices.

The M5 plus sometimes resets its fTPM and won't boot without user input until that is resolved.

I can get the nucbox to idle around 4-5w and the M5 plus idles closer to 8w.

Most of the BIOS options are hidden or obscured for power saving.

The worst offender though is Beelink which idles at closer to 30w in the GTi14.

As I understand it, it's a mix of factors.

Charging Lithium, and converting to motive force in motors are both pretty efficient. (Both >90%).

An ICE vehicle has an upper limit on efficiency that is lower than what a modern fossil fuel plant can reach, and the ICE is less likely to sit at peak efficiency all the time. The world record, set this year was 48%. Previously, it was 41%.

Power plants are much more likely to be kept at or near their peak efficiency and have the space for systems like heat recovery (to recapture waste heat) and emissions controls. For a gas turbine plant, I think the record is ~64% sustained.

I really like the concept, but I think the restrictions are a double-edged sword.

The form factor and Sailfish are a lot more appealing than 'apps blocked at a system level'.

Can it run the usual apps like banking apps which can be particular about Android 'trustworthiness'?

Unfortunately, a smartphone is a near-necessity for various things like that now.

I've just bought it based on the description.

Minor complaint is that it steals Cmd-Shift-P (Firefox Private Browsing shortcut) by default.

Easy to change in the UI though, so no big deal.

I have a mild distrust of some of the cheap IP KVMs. I don't think vendors are malicious, but I don't expect they get it right every time either.

Admittedly, I haven't looked at any open-sourced firmwares either which could have improved things.

I have found the Sispeed USB KVM very useful, the convenience is well worth the $50 it cost me. The UX isn't great but you don't really need it to be. It works (most of the time) via WebUSB for the keyboard mouse.

I'm not sure that the author's perspective that the I/O limits were a direct commercial decision is one I'd agree with.

Apple could have shipped two 10Gbps ports at no meaningful cost increase and chose not to.

AFAIK, the A18 Pro has limited USB bandwidth as it's designed for a single high-speed port in a phone. So you are always limited by that fact if you use the A18 Pro chip.

The real question will be whether the A19 Pro already has better USB hardware in it with a view to going into a newer Neo. Or whether it actually matters for their price point.

I think it's to do with the LLM prompt, which mentions 19th century, 1887 etc.

https://github.com/BaderBC/halupedia/blob/master/src/worker/...

I asked about The IP over Avian Carrier Plague and got a whole history of the Data Dove Delirium too.

https://halupedia.com/the-internet-over-avian-carrier-plague

https://halupedia.com/data-dove-delirium