Sunspear

The idea has some merit, however- one of the first rules of authentication is to not do it yourself, and rely on trusted libraries (or platforms, in the case of Auth0).

Why would any company choose a no-name AI-genned rando software as their auth stack that doesn’t offer any guarantees, or compensation in case of a breach, when you could instead… not do that and have a proper functioning tool with adequate support?

When I bought my just-barely-not-current-gen ipad pro, it was 1100€.

This phone is more than 60% more expensive than that. I can’t imagine buying a mobile device that costs this much

Such a weird hatred against a fundamentally useful tool that means fewer people need to do an objectively shitty, monotonous job (=cashiers).

Here in Europe, we have enough people manning the registers that you can always opt to go to a human if you have a huge cart (and potentially wait a few minutes, or more during rush hour), or if you have less than ten items (quite often really, I buy dinner bread practically daily), you go to a self-checkout, and you’re out in less than a minute.

It helps queue times when you need speed and are buying a few things only, and is literally irrelevant when you have a full cart, as you’re better off going through a proper cash register anyway.

Note that the fact that hypercapitalist american supermarkets take this as an invitation to permanently understaff manned registers is not a fault of the machines themselves