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
This commit is contained in:
Gabriel Brown
2026-08-23 11:55:43 -04:00
parent 3d21e20041
commit 44124d72fa
20 changed files with 139 additions and 42 deletions
@@ -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