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Admittedly I've never used Mac's implementation but I could see a slowdown if it takes longer for the fingerprint to register that it takes to type your passwor
by jedimastert 6y ago
Admittedly I've never used Mac's implementation but I could see a slowdown if it takes longer for the fingerprint to register that it takes to type your password (which is probably the fastest combination of characters you can type)
- austhrow743 6y agoIf you're touch iding everything you normally password for, you can afford to have a less fast to type password.
- dustinmoris 6y agoFrom my experience it's much faster. Just the tiny fraction of a second that it takes me to look at my caps lock key to verify that it's not on takes longer than my fingerprint scan and at that point I haven't even typed a single letter yet :) Also it's arguably not the fastest combination of characters I can type, because my password is not "test1234" and I don't get much opportunity to type it at all anymore since everything can be unlocked via TouchID except the terminal, or so I thought at least :)
- wtetzner 6y ago> Just the tiny fraction of a second that it takes me to look at my caps lock key to verify that it's not on I always just re-assign the caps-lock key to CTRL.
- robertlutece 6y agoCTRL when used as a modifier, escape on its own
- vincentmarle 6y ago> it takes longer for the fingerprint to register than it takes to type your password You mean the black void where there’s no feedback on how many characters you typed? I always have to write my password a couple of times to get it right.
- wtetzner 6y agoNormally I can type my password faster than pretty much any other activity. But on my MBP (with the terrible keyboard) I never know if all of my keypresses registered (or if some of them were duplicated).