It’s easy enough to just configure TouchID so that it doesn’t work to log into your computer. It’s only used for authorization to do certain operations (like ApplePay), once you have logged on with a password.
I do this on all my devices. And I don’t use FaceID for anything at all. Which makes modern iPhones a bit of a pain, but I do it anyway.
I don’t think these methods are possible anymore in this modern economy of “fire everyone because of AI and then rehire them a few months later at half the salary”.
If you’re not one of the senior managers, I don’t think these kinds of long term investments are feasible anymore.
Here's the process. Your company can't do shit and is losing market share everywhere.
So, you buy another company that can do shit, transfer the brand to the same people who can't do shit, and then fire all the people from the new company.
For a brief period, while you've got the new brand, your company can start to regain a bit of market share.
But that period never lasts, and you go back to the status quo.
Politicians are only accountable to the people who put money into their election.
Which means, mostly the millionaires and billionaires. And SuperPACs owned by corporations who have unlimited funds that they can give, because Citizens United showed that $1 = 1 vote.
You still have to find a builder, or a place where a builder has built a house that you can afford to buy.
Even regular handymen are backlogged by six months or so. Forget trying to get a builder within a year or more.
Meanwhile, all those expensive high rises on the river for those millionaires and billionaires keep going up, faster than you can blink an eye.
Not that different from the commute that Apple employees I knew were making. They spent 30 minutes commuting to where they would pick up the shuttle, three or so hours on the shuttle, get off the shuttle and have lunch at Caffe Macs, maybe take a meeting, then get back on the shuttle for their ride home.
The shuttles had Wi-Fi, so they could get all their regular work done while on the shuttle. That was functionally their office, even though they had a desk in the building on Bubb Road.
And they were getting paid well over $150k, and living in group homes east of San Jose, because that’s all they could afford to live in.
I suspect that maybe not many are coming from San Francisco itself, which is only a tiny part of the Bay Area. And maybe not that many are coming from the greater Bay Area. Maybe they’re coming from other parts of California that also has very high cost of housing, like LA.
The curve is a cliff. Prices have already doubled and tripled at least once or twice, and that’s just within the last couple of years.
There’s no new inventory being built, and there won’t be a significant amount of new inventory built any time soon, because Texas is the most terrified state in the country of all the Mexicans coming across the border to take all the jobs.
They’ll spend billions of dollars to protect that border, but nothing to build new housing for people moving to the state.
I do this on all my devices. And I don’t use FaceID for anything at all. Which makes modern iPhones a bit of a pain, but I do it anyway.