There still must be another mechanism to access it like a password. What if the camera fails? What if you get punched in the face that day?

That’s what it does right now - if Touch ID or face id fails you still have your password to fall back on. I think it may do this automatically if the touch sensor dies but you can always force it with the 5x quick taps on the power button.

It is, but GP is saying if the auto method is FaceID + password and FaceID doesn't work... then what? Clearly just the password isn't enough to get you into the phone.

We can have two options for unlock: (Face ID + PIN) OR (Alphanumeric Passphrase). The former for daily use and the latter as backup or for system restart.

I really like your analogy, but what did you mean by "anything is better"?

Yeah, sorry, it was not well done. I mean, anything is better than a house without a thermostat, even a house where the thermostat is the boss.

I used to be inspired by the Venus Project years ago. Unfortunately I realized it is extremely utopian and things needs to change in a more practical sense if we want a good chance of succeding.

I'm currently very impressed by the work of Prof. Richard Wolff, an economist that heavily criticizes Capitalism and tries to make actual practical changes in the lives of people starting from their workplaces.

Here is a talk he made in front of Google employees (the irony): https://youtu.be/ynbgMKclWWc

I'll take a look... let me rephrase that the Venus project...which I just heard about a few months ago..intrigues me quite a bit... but I don't see it really being feasible till we're an interplanetary species and even then maybe not...But there are good concepts and maybe when general AI hits, who knows what will change...

I do like UBI though along with (the pragmatist in me) believes gov't should work like agile dev teams... push changes up to a github like interface for bills.. the all bills should be VERY succinct and serve 1 goal, and that they should be repealable pretty easily like reverting a change on github... I think we have WAY too much bloat, and omnibuses just don't make sense at all and should be illegal.

Congressmen make very good money and benefits -- and have lots of perks so they should be required to work as hard as the next guy in America - -40 hours per week IN congress discussing bills and voting - -anything to 'market' themselves for future elections is NOT part of their job and outside their 'paid' duties and should be done on their own time.

I think automation, etc will disrupt the entire fabric of society soon, and honestly I hope we can move back to middle-age work days... they worked maybe 20 hours a week, if that and some weeks not at all - if farming the winter was pretty much just don't freeze to death... While their lives weren't long, I have to think they enjoyed life more than we do today.

And to block competitors from selling out their own products (AMD in that case).

Yes

This is a very good overview of bad anti-consumer practices Intel has done throughout the last 30 years: https://youtu.be/osSMJRyxG0k

Can you elaborate why? Aside from install times which there are solutions for.

I still don't see the point, you'll probably need to pull dependencies whether you use is or any other language.

And as for build tools, people like to complain way too much, maybe they prefer just using bash scripts instead..

Maybe python's dependency management (pypi/pip) is nicer than NPM? (I think it is, at least)