Apple wants $199 for a Touch ID keyboard. I shipped a free one in Swift!

I have a Mac mini. Apple's official path to fingerprint authentication on a Mac mini is buying their $199 Magic Keyboard with Touch ID. The new MacBook Neo charges $100 extra for the variant with the sensor. Mac Studio and Mac Pro never ship with one at all. The fingerprint sensor I actually use 50 times a day already lives in the phone in my pocket. So I spent two weekends building TouchBridge — an open-source macOS daemon and PAM module that lets any phone, watch, or browser act as Touch ID fo