So am I the only one who's noticed that average non-tech users are absolutely horrible with managing passwords and passkeys would be a huge improvement over reusing "ddccbbaa!" across every login they have?
Everyone I know about 40 years old use <name><year in range 1960-2000><special character to pass check, usually exclamation point> as the formula for their passwords. Capital letters are the first letter of the name, of course.
The only exceptions are passwords generated for them with change password pages that are more than two clicks away.
I applaud passkeys, despite their obvious problems surrounding their centralisation in Apple's or Google's account. The probability of your account being banned is much lower than the probability of Steven1971! getting guessed (or leaked in any hack).
Canonical makes decisions based on their own self interest. Not for their users and not for the benefit of the greater community. That's what drove everyone away.
The Mac OS X of around 15 years ago had an elegant simplicity to it that I really appreciated. Everything just seemed to work well.
That seems to have been lost. New and often unwanted features just add to the complexity. A lot of first party applications seem subpar. And iCloud often seems more like a nuisance than a feature.
I still like Apple hardware but I’m looking forward to trying Asahi Linux soon.
They've been horrible about communication since the Twitch ban a month ago. And they didn't even reveal anything about their plans to the press leading up to last night while they were promoting their return.
Just my opinion, but I wonder if the changes were their decision so they could own and monetize their "original" ip.
They have every right to cover their costs but I don't appreciate the bait and switch. It seems like a desperation move since I don't see how they can sustain and grow their user base at these price points.
It's a 150% price increase if you don't want metered search. I probably would have been ok with a reasonable price increase, maybe 25% to 50%. But it's a lot to ask of your users when most of us have to manage a number of subscriptions and almost all of them have had price increases over the past year.
