I have never really seen that postulate as practical in the real world. I prefer my own ~~version~~ (EDIT: addendum; failed to describe properly):
Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by monetary profit.
lambalicious
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People want evil, simple as that.
"Brain farts" will take a whole new meaning!
Wow, Kimberly Bauer lasted long.
I assume one of the reasons to fully disable the internal keyboard is that the external one is sitting on top, so this setup is for when you are short of space? (eg.: lap carrying your laptop, note: don't do that!)
Tho, someone correct me if this is not the case, this way, ¿you would also lose access to the special hardware key functions of the keyboard (eg.: AURA mode, fan speed, rfkill on ASUS laptops, etc), right?
Defo this is one of the nice thigns I like udev rules for - taking action when specific hardware is plugged or unplugged, thus making the mechanical task of connecting and configuring hardware lots more ergonomic.
Gotta be fair. If I had to be an obligate wheelie and had to regularly find exotic and exquisite ways for matter, energy and the universe to kill each other and themselves, then I'd have my fun when I can and make it the universe's problem, too.
It's not wrong to want to reward someone for providing an above-baseline service, which is what we (usually) can at most do here. Among other things, they are literally asking for someone to hold their hand. That's instruction-level commitment, not just "passerby internet comment"-level commitment, and I see it as fair to both request the service for a price and provide the service for a price.
I picked back the backup of some code I wrote 6 years ago so that I can resume the project.
Puede ser, pero pragmatismo es diferente a "ignorar el mecanismo en favor del resultado".
Excelente, así puedes verla en caso que se te olvide. 🌃🧠
I once was in the office next to Stephen Hawking.
That is, I was waiting for my dentist appointment, and Hawking and his team were on the next module of the building by the side, on the office across from mine, prepping a lecture he would present the next day at my city.
(let's see if that works)
So basically what I'm wondering is if it is possible to run multiple instances of the fontserver (fontconfig?) in parallel for the same desktop session. Then being able to fire up programs connected to either fontserver.
This is Linux so I sorta just assume it is, but better to invoke the Power of Ackshually.
What for, one would ask?
Well, the example use case I'm seeing this for is actually to aid in anti-browser fingerprinting.
As a distro user, one ends up with hundreds of fonts installed. Math, doramas, emojis... Noto by itself adds 80 entries to my LO listing.
Normally that's not an issue, but when in eg.: Firefox, it is. Having enabled browser.use_document_fonts, all those fonts are visible for the browser even with font-visibility measures applied. Have tested it with online benchmarks such as amiunique and browserleaks. What's worse, "use document fonts" is a global setting instead of a site-specific setting, so I can't really fine-tune a session for that -- tho I've already filed Mozilla about that.
But I don't want to uninstall the fonts, I'm using them! I just want for spies to not see them.
So I thought.
Fonts are controlled by a fontserver ("fontconfig").
What if I could have a second fontserver running in my session? One that has a more "normal" set of fonts enabled, such as say the baseline set + language pack fonts for Fedora or Ubuntu, and then Roboto or Noto for good measure. Then I could launch my browser such that it connects to that second fontserver instance...
# example potential code, donut steel
env FONTSERVER_SOCKET=unix:///var/run/fontserver2.sock firefox
And bam! fingerprinters wont be able to see beyond, while I can freely alt-tab to LO and my "handwritten" document.
So yeah. Correct me that this can't be done. Let's do it.
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That's where the "malice" part of the original kicks in. I failed to note in my post that my own version is an addendum to the rule, not a replacement.