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.

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.

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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.

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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.

The last 2 can be mitigated by just plugging in a different keyboard, the second one by just pulling the drive, the first doesn't really need mitigation, but nothing a $5 wrench won't solve.

Apparently I am too...

1. Linux (NixOS BTW)
2. Also Sway
3. Colemak
4. Mechanical keyboard, but the key caps are still QWERTY.

I used my own modified colemak layout for some time.

Linux+i3+emacs+dvorak+querty_mech_kbd

damn it. I am "one of those dudes"

My keycaps are Morse code

Switching to Dvorak caused the gratifying result of people that would just start trying to use your keyboard without being absolutely befuddled.

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.

the real fix would have been the removal of drake

Ah thanks man, could you add some left/right padding as well?

I agree. There are so many available now.

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.

i3 can also drag and drop to tile, iirc.

When in doubt, swipe up