just learned that my colleagues rotate VS Code by 1 degree when you leave your laptop unattended

[jn@boopsnoot.de]

@merlin question: HOW?

[jn@boopsnoot.de]

@merlin did they inject CSS into your VS Code's Electron?!?

[merlin@toot.kif.rocks]

@jn you can just open the dev tools from the help menu

[yassie_j@labyrinth.zone]

@merlin@kif.rocks why

[janvhs@hachyderm.io]

@yassie_j because you left your PC unattended lol

[domi@donotsta.re]

@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone @merlin@kif.rocks have you never rearranged someone else's keyboard from QWERTY into the world-famed ABCDEF layout? <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://donotsta.re/emoji/akko/akko_giggle.png" title=":akko_giggle:" />

[yassie_j@labyrinth.zone]

@domi@donotsta.re @merlin@kif.rocks one time in school, my classmates stole the Esc keys from all the other keyboards in the IT room and stuck them to the teacher's keyboard

[domi@donotsta.re]

@yassie_j@labyrinth.zone @merlin@kif.rocks <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://donotsta.re/emoji/meow/meowdevil.png" title=":meowdevil:" />

in semi-related news, i wonder if my old high school still has the windows 7 PC where I changed winlogon to say "Habemus papam!" instead of "Welcome"

[anominominominous@polyglot.city]

@domi @yassie_j @merlin

Thank you so much for this thread. I cackled like a witch

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@domi @yassie_j @merlin Heh, I did dvorak once (both physically and in software), sadly Linux DEs are horrible and it didn't keep the configuration after a reboot.

[tyalie@chaos.social]

@merlin @jn i love this sooo much

[danhatesnumbers@hachyderm.io]

@merlin diabolical

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@merlin @jn aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[feonixrift@x0r.be]

@merlin I want to know how to do this.

[smolbrain@floofy.tech]

@merlin monster
Teach me their ways!!!

[xssfox@cloudisland.nz]

@merlin this should fix it

xrandr --output HDMI-1 --transform 0.99985,0.017452,0,-0.017452,0.99985,0,0,0,1

[merlin@toot.kif.rocks]

@feonixrift Help > Open Developer Tools, find the body element and add rotate: 1deg to the CSS

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@merlin

That is the leveled up version of my old favorite:

1. screenshot desktop

2. set that as walpaper

3. delete all the icons from their desktop

[hlangeveld@hachyderm.io]

@TeflonTrout @merlin
This a longer story...

My wife used to have an early laptop 25y back or longer, that developed a loose screen contact resulting in a narrow black line just next to the center of the screen.

After weeks i happened to notice the problem went away when I applied subtle pressure on the side of the screen bezel.

I then carefully opened the shell and squeezed some material between shell and screen to apply permanent pressure.

I then created a snapshot.
And edited the original black line into the picture which then became the new background...

[causeofbsod@wetdry.world]

@xssfox @merlin sadly, windows 11