PIN is the best way to go there. It only works on that one machine, although you can technically set the same PIN again on another computer.

I believe the typical intent is as follows:

1. It is now possible to brute force things that were previously considered “complex” passwords in a semi-reasonable amount of time.
2. This necessitates longer and more complex passwords
3. People can’t remember those so they have a tendency to write them down or do other relatively insecure things with them.
4. Forgotten passwords can generate a lot of helpdesk calls and are also an attack vector
5. If we insist on really complex passwords that are too long to reasonably brute force with current technology, we need a way for users to log in that’s not going to make 3 and 4 a major issue.
6. If the simpler PIN method is locked to a per machine basis, it matters a lot less if the PIN is compromised because you also need physical access to the computer or the PIN is useless.

This should, in theory, allow workplaces to set requirements for really complex passwords that only need to be reset once a year or so, without breaking helpdesk, inconveniencing users, or leaving gaping security holes.

Whether or not that all happens depends on the workplace, but that’s the general thought process in most of the places I’ve worked where a modicum of sense prevails

TREK: Total Interface

It’s Total Launcher with an LCARS theme.

I’ve been using it for 4 or 5 years now across two different phones.

I absolutely despise the entire smartphone menu paradigm so this is as close as I can get to departing from it and sticking with something static that doesn’t move about or spontaneously change behaviors every third update.

That’s a static menu system sorted, now if I could just get my pixel 8 pro to stick to 30 minutes screen timeout after I set it once, that’d be great. It flips back to 30 seconds nearly every time I put it down and sometimes while I’m holding it.

Why isn’t there a developer option for “never let the phone change settings on its own”?

That wouldn‘t be very democratic now, would it?

I TOLD you, we’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune! We take it in turns, to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions OF that officer must be ratified at a special biweekly meeting, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, or by a TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY in the case of more immediate…