Re: Fingerprint recognition (on power button)

From	Renato Gallo <renato@aster-lab.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Fingerprint recognition (on power button)
Date	2020-10-05 17:10 +0200
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Renato Gallo 

----- Original Message -----
From: rhkramer@gmail.com
To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, October 5, 2020 4:00:47 PM
Subject: Fingerprint recognition (on power button)

I am thinking about buying a:

 KUU-K2 14.1" IPS Screen All Metal Shell Champagne Gold Office Notebook Intel 
Celeron Processor J4115 8GB DDR4 RAM 256GB SSD Windows 10 Laptop Computer with 
Fingerprint Unlock Backlit Keyboard 

https://www.newegg.com/champagne-gold-kuu-k2-
workstation/p/1TS-00BK-00024?Item=9SIANGPBUS2481

(Currently on sale for $306 with free shipping.)

The one potential problem that I see is that it (optionally?) allows locking 
based on your fingerprint on, iiuc, the power button.

Does anybody (here) use or know much about fingerprint recognition? I'd prefer 
not to enable that if it is an option or not supported in Debian -- it just 
strikes me as another potential point of failure that I don't need.

Asides (that you don't need to read):

It meets most of my criteria (at least 8 GB RAM (I'd prefer more, I'll look 
into expandability), reasonably fast (2.5GHz. 4 Cores and 4 Threads), sufficient 
size hard / ssd drive (128 GB would be sufficient), and type C USB port to plug 
into a docking station that I already have.

(I'd prefer AMD as a processor, but ...)

(Aside: my intent would be to keep Windows 10 for the one application that I 
use every 4 to 5 years (updating the map(s) in my Garmin GPS unit (even though 
I know I can install a "free software" map instead). but basically to install 
Buster to do some development that requires C++17, and, incidentally (if I am 
successful with that development) possibly take the laptop to make 
presentations at various sites.)

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Fingerprint recognition (on power button) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-10-05 16:10 +0200
  Re: Fingerprint recognition (on power button) Chris Ramsden <chris.ramsden@gmail.com> - 2020-10-05 16:40 +0200
    Re: Fingerprint recognition (on power button) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-10-05 17:00 +0200
  Re: Fingerprint recognition (on power button) Renato Gallo <renato@aster-lab.com> - 2020-10-05 17:10 +0200

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