• madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
    1621·
    4 days ago

    Absolutely perfect. I was traveling with a friend and we decided to watch a movie I had on my hard drive. Once I booted into i3 and I had to use a couple key chords to navigate, they said, “Your computer gives me anxiety.” 😂

    Same person almost shit their pants when I replaced youtu.be with yewtu.be in a URL to get a region locked video to play. I am a bonafide hacker in their eyes.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      121·
      3 days ago

      My idiot brother, who fancies himself a tech guru… because he reads the news marketing around the tech specs of new console releases every couple of years…

      Legitimately thought I was hacking into our own ISP when I opened a terminal infront of him to configure a VPN setting that didn’t yet have an option to do so in the GUI.

      Lile he tried to have an ‘intervention’ with me over it.

      For … running a few commands to check my existing and active network interfaces, then glancing at a webpage and starting the vpn process with an extra flag or two.

      I was completely unable to convince him that I hadn’t done anything even remotely close to like pen-testing the local DNS server… which is what he… seemed? to think I was doing?

      Gotta love incredibly overconfident + incompetent people.

      …

      I have also had people at cellphone shops either get angry at me for mentioning outloud, or try to hide the fact that you can plug a phone with a broken screen into a usb hub, and then their own keyboard, monitor and mouse, in certain situations, and be able to log in to the phone to do inane parts of their recovery or migration processes … when your screen is borked, but the phone itself is still functional.

      I had employee guy laugh at the notion this would work, another guy say sure you can try it, and then got angry that it worked, and another act like I was performing some kind of dark magic that the other customers in the store could not be allowed to know about.

      …

      EDIT: Oh I forgot to mention the abominable absurdity of my brother trying to give me an ‘intervention’ over anything, at all, ever.

      See, while I was studying the blade getting two simultaneous bachelors degrees from the best Uni in the state, he was going to raves, giving himself serotonin shock syndrome, all while functionally being homeless.

      Multiple times in my life I have had to drop everything I was doing and prevent him from carrying out a very credible suicide threat, or save him from ODing.

      Myself on the other hand, … uh, no nothing like that, and I’d not even given him an ‘intervention’ after saving him from an OD or two.

      Anyway, I’m fairly sure I could drive him back to drug use if I somehow forced him to learn how some of the R code I used and wrote for statistical analysis actually works, or the same for any of the insane spider webs of 200, 300 line custom, one-off SQL queries I often had to write in various data analyst positions before they let me restructure their DBs a bit into something less insane.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          You know, I hadn’t seen that sketch before…

          … but another thing that my idiot brother did, which was actually the final straw between me and my entire family:

          My doctors, over the year prior, with me seeing them fairly frequently, running a good deal of blood work tests on me … well they decided to change up my medication somewhat, take me off of one drug, replace it with another…

          … because that drug they were taking me off of was causing me to … not quite develop actual diabetes, but develop many signs of pre-diabetes… and they had figured out a way to switch me over to a set of drugs where that would not be a problem.

          My brother interpreted this as me making up all of what I just said whole cloth, as if i was delusional and insane, despite me literally showing him the blood test results, annotated by the metabolic expert, and the new medication plan from other doctors.

          So we got into an argument, the next day my entire immediate family has decided that I need to be institutionalized, in a mental asylum in the middle of fucking nowhere, fuck my career I guess? I was making almost twice as much as my brother and probably more than my dad at the time.

          I just moved out while my brother was at work, never looked back.

          • tomcatt360@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            Damn, seems I unlocked a core memory. Condolences. Thanks for sharing though! Quite the story…

            • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              1 day ago

              Ah, this one was fairly recent, and I have more recently been diagnosed with ©PTSD from… how often insane shit like that has happened to me.

              But, typing it out is… better than just stuffing it down… 6 months ago, typing out a similar story would have filled me with rage, all muscles clenching… this time I only grit my teeth once.

              Progress.

              … I appreciate the condolences though.

              … Spent a long, long time being gaslit, its … helpful for me to type it out, and not be blamed for it.

      • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        Yeesh. I relate fully to the brother part. Mine also likes to pretend, but at least isn’t that oblivious about the terminal. Intervention, though?! LMAO

        “Friends don’t let friends Gentoo”, or something

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          41·
          3 days ago

          He has an extremely thin skin, a massive inferiority complex, somehow has worse social skills than myself, despite me being autistic and him not… I could go on, but I already added more in an edit to my above post.

          So anyway I went no contact with my entire dysfunctional family (they’re all this magnitude of nuts but in their own special ways) years ago rofl, my mental health has never been better.

    • confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      79·
      4 days ago

      I was installing Alpine Linux on a Raspberry Pi 5 and was using the kitchen TV as a temporary monitor. My parents thought I was sending encrypted messages. I was just updating the repository list to find the quickest mirror.

      It’s funny to me how some people see text scrolling by on a screen and immediately think witchcraft.

      • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
        47·
        4 days ago

        I used to do something similar when I was working in embedded systems, specifically because my superiors had no idea. I would just put our OS up to compile on repeat so one if my machines was always spitting out nonsense (but vaguely related to work).

        “Sorry boss, just waiting on the new build to finish up so I can start on that.”

        • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
          20·
          4 days ago

          Used to keep a terminal sesh up that was just scrolling top on the dev server whenever I felt like being lazy while looking productive. Took my very tech savvy boss a couple months before he finally noticed.

          • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
            19·
            4 days ago

            I’m pretty sure the VP of engineering knew what I was up to, but I think he also understood that I didn’t get paid enough to be as neurotic as he was and I generally got stuff done ahead of schedule any way.

  • Photuris@lemmy.ml
    115·
    4 days ago

    Ok, so I happen to be the paragon of security through obscurity.

    1. Linux
    2. Sway
    3. Dvorak layout
    4. Mechanical keyboard c̄ blank keycaps

    Come at me bruh

  • kamen@lemmy.world
    12·
    3 days ago

    Joke aside, it’ll only work implying that they have to use the same computer. Anyone tech savvy enough will know that it’s trivial to put an unencrypted drive in another machine and read it.

    • ewenak@jlai.lu
      22·
      4 days ago

      As I’m French, I do the contrary: international QWERTY layout on AZERTY physical keyboard. I want to switch to an ergonomic layout like ergo-l though, but it’s hard to learn.

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
    35·
    4 days ago

    This is like me when I try to use my wife’s iPhone. Where are the buttons? How do I exit the app?

  • Bappity@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    4 days ago

    multi step authentication flows that are customizable for each user would be kinda cool if that doesn’t exist already.

    not too crazy like two factor authentication, just patterns or puzzles to arrange in different ways.

    so every time someone tries to access an account, the authentication process is different every time

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
      17·
      4 days ago

      It opens up a page of my handwriting and it must be translated in order to unlock the computer. Even the most powerful linguist in the world couldn’t crack it.

  • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world
    15·
    4 days ago

    Sway is fine. I still prefer i3 because I still use many X applications.

    Now for this meme specifically, sway and i3wm are actually easy to understand once you know the basic key chords. Sway in particular can also allow drag and drop to tile manually without shortcuts.

    Dwm though is a nightmare for Linux beginners let alone those who never use Linux before. I3 needs a .config file, so newbies can read it and figure out the key bindings. On Dwm? It doesnt need one because the system can just run the compiled dwm executable. So if you really want to make it more secure: configure dwm to your likings => compile it => delete the source folder. Nobody will know wtf is going on, except you.

  • Skunk@jlai.lu
    8·
    4 days ago

    I was an i3 and sway user but I lapsed to the dark side.

    I tried KDE with Krohnkite tilling extension on a new laptop and liked it way too much. It’s slowly becoming my main DE.

    It’s configured with i3 shortcuts of course, so there’s that.

    • double_quack@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      I’ve been wanting to do that

      (i3 user here with dynamic composition of config file based on content of my “dotfiles” repo acroos my devices, and deciding some parts of it (like screen config) by the localhost name).

      Can you tell me more about your experience? KDE ds indeed sexy. Calibre, okular and kde-connect sure are).

      • Skunk@jlai.lu
        2·
        3 days ago

        Well that was my main motivation to try KDE, everything is working fine out of the box and is highly configurable/rice-able.

        It just needed that tiling wm love. So far I have nothing really bad to say about this configuration. You can have a very i3 feeling by adding gaps, rounded corners, removing title bars, have transparency or blur etc. Or you can do a mix of both worlds to make it easier for the rest of your household (example, having title bars makes the windows movable by mouse. I kept them for my significant other, she hates not being able to choose the windows size but it makes it easier for her to watch YouTube…)

        Keyboard shortcuts are configured in kde settings, so there will be conflicts at first between “normal kde” binds and tilling plugin binds, but nothing impossible to change.

        I haven’t seen any bugs, my dual screen is working great. I have yet to finish my personalization but I’m at about 80% and it as become my daily driver for working.

        I am not certain about your different config by localhost as I now sync the dotfiles and packages across the two pc (laptop + mini pc) which are the same hardware and so, exact same look and feels. When not in laptop mode they share the same dual screens so it makes sense to me.

        The only downside I see is that it relies on a community GitHub. The one I linked is the only one I found to be updated. There are plenty of forks or similar projects not updated since 2022.

        So unless KDE officially does it one day (and does it well), we have to use community plugins and hope that they stay updated.

        Mandatory over compressed screenshot (in night theme and night light cause, well it’s still night… It will transition everything to day at sunrise)

        • double_quack@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          So, just with the keyboard, can you:

          • move focus across windows
          • move windows
          • resize windows
          • run any program?

          Also, do you have the “tabs, stack, columns, rows” layouts?

          • Skunk@jlai.lu
            2·
            2 days ago

            Yes to all. Programs are run from whatever launcher you want to use, default KDE or another one.

            Default Key Bindings

            Key Action
            Meta + . Focus Next
            Meta + , Focus Previous
            Meta + J Focus Down
            Meta + K Focus Up
            Meta + H Focus Left
            Meta + L Focus Right
            Meta + Shift + J Move Down/Next
            Meta + Shift + K Move Up/Previous
            Meta + Shift + H Move Left
            Meta + Shift + L Move Right
            Meta + I Increase
            Meta + D Decrease
            Meta + F Toggle Floating
            Meta + \ Next Layout
            Meta + | Previous Layout
            Meta + Return Set as Master
            Meta + T Use Tile Layout
            Meta + M Use Monocle Layout
            unbound Use Spread Layout
            unbound Use Stair Layout