Take one machine's fingerprints off everyone's desktop

The audit's second tier: values that were measurements of the author's
desktop, shipped to every machine as if they were defaults.

Settings greeted every human as Gabriel; it now greets whoever
accountsservice says is signed in, and nobody when it says nothing. The
weather shipped his home coordinates and confidently reported his forecast
anywhere on earth; it now ships unset, fetches nothing until a location is
chosen, and the location row says so. The GTK bookmarks carried seven
/home/gib paths and his file server into every file dialog; they are now
generated per machine from a template and gitignored -- Nautilus edits the
instance freely, the way settings.ini already worked one file over. Web
search routed through his personal bang redirector; the engine is now the
webSearchUrl preference with a DuckDuckGo default, read by both the script
command and the suggestions extension, which the launcher-search contract
already pins to one another. The GPU vitals path defaulted to his card1 and
lost the readout on any machine enumerated differently; a machine with
exactly one GPU now adopts it. And the Containers and Snapshots pages hide
once a scan proves their backing stack absent, instead of rendering
permanently empty on machines that never had podman or snapper.

Lesser residue swept in the same pass: the DP-2 hyprpaper block one machine
needed, the author's username-typo expansions (moved to his personal seed in
user/, where personal content belongs), a capture fallback into /home/gib,
and a parity table asserting one machine's hardware as fact.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Epx9ZC1gwm81K3jm9x9CKh

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ApplicationsPage.qml

@@ -207,6 +207,8 @@ SettingsPage {
         title: "Search"
         subtitle: "Applications, files, the calculator, clipboard history, emoji, and open windows are all searched from the launcher."
 
+        TextEntryRow { setting: "webSearchUrl"; placeholder: "https://duckduckgo.com/?q=" }
+
         TextRow {
             label: "Launcher"
             detail: SystemSettings.vicinaeActive

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/HomePage.qml

@@ -96,7 +96,17 @@ SettingsPage {
         return match[2] ? match[1] + " " + match[2].toUpperCase() : match[1];
     }
 
-    title: `${root.greeting}, Gabriel`
+    // Greets whoever is signed in, from the same accountsservice record the
+    // lock screen shows. This once hardcoded the author's first name, which
+    // made the first screen of Settings wrong for every other human.
+    readonly property string greetingName: {
+        if (!UserAccounts.me)
+            return "";
+        const full = UserAccounts.displayName(UserAccounts.me);
+        return full.split(" ")[0] || "";
+    }
+
+    title: root.greetingName !== "" ? `${root.greeting}, ${root.greetingName}` : root.greeting
     lede: Weather.available
         ? Math.round(Weather.temperature) + Weather.unitSuffix + " and "
           + Weather.description.toLowerCase() + " in " + Settings.weatherLocation
@@ -275,7 +285,7 @@ SettingsPage {
 
             label: "Location"
             detail: "Only the search term is sent; the name is a label kept on this machine"
-            value: Settings.weatherLocation
+            value: Settings.weatherLocation !== "" ? Settings.weatherLocation : "Not set — choose one to see weather"
 
             LocationPicker {
                 width: parent.width

config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/SettingsSidebar.qml

@@ -55,6 +55,22 @@ Rectangle {
         { page: "about", label: "About", icon: "\u{F02FD}" }
     ]
 
+    // Pages whose entire backing stack can be absent hide once a scan has
+    // proven it absent: a Containers page with no podman and a Snapshots page
+    // with no snapper configuration render permanently empty, which reads as
+    // broken rather than inapplicable. Until the scan lands they stay
+    // visible, so machines that have the stack never see a blink -- and both
+    // scans fire when Settings opens (HomePage.onCompleted).
+    function pageAvailable(page: string): bool {
+        switch (page) {
+        case "containers":
+            return !Containers.scanned || Containers.available;
+        case "snapshots":
+            return !Snapshots.scanned || Snapshots.configs.length > 0;
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
     width: 272
     color: Theme.alpha(Theme.bgDark, 0.96)
     border.width: 0
@@ -236,6 +252,7 @@ Rectangle {
                     Rectangle {
                         id: navItem
                         required property var modelData
+                        visible: root.pageAvailable(modelData.page)
                         width: parent.width
                         height: 40
                         radius: 10