@blueb mm yeahhh you can just have a passkey inside of the cloud keychain or whatever its called for basically fingerprint unlock of online accounts, that's actually pretty cool.
that being said it would be so sick to have a key on the keyboard that could be a fingerprint sensor. there would be absolutely no way to implement that in QMK.
@coolbean you can get usb fingerprint sensors too, i actually saw one that supported FIDO as well and probably only unlocks on a successful fingerprint login, which is kinda cool
@autumn realistically you could combine both since passkeys can also require confirmation via pin or in this case: fingerprint
id prefer the pin though so i can let someone use my computer without coming over and personally authorising
also i just do not believe in biometrics. those cases of cops unlocking an incapacitated or cuffed person's phone made me very untrusting of their actual security
@autumn yeah in the US entering a pattern pin or password can't be forced because it's considered compelled testimony so I never use biometrics, and any passkey I do use is only part of a password as opposed to the password in and of itself, so that at least if they get the key they can't compel me to offer up the other part
@ari its amazinggg, i think im gonna buy a fingerprint sensor for my desktop... will probably need to do a bunch of research about which ones work tho :(
@autumn is fingerprint supported at all on linux? i mean, i'm sure it can be made to work through hacks, but i'm talking proper desktop portal support or something
@ari from what i know, you can use it with fprintd to unlock your PC (but still need password for the keychain implementation on KDE or GNOME), you can use it for sudo, and on GNOME at least you're able to use it to just authenticate any admin stuff that the desktop will ask you about. I don't think you can actually do anything within other apps though, not sure about portals though. It allows for you to pass through every USB device, but not fingerprint sensors specifically.
@autumn oh i wasn't thinking of a USB portal, but specifically some kind of "user biometric auth" portal? admittedly i don't know an incredible amount about how desktop portals work
