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
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Gabriel Brown
2026-08-23 11:55:43 -04:00
parent 3d21e20041
commit 44124d72fa
20 changed files with 139 additions and 42 deletions
@@ -25,5 +25,8 @@
#
# xdg-open rather than a named browser: the default browser is already a setting
# this desktop owns, on the Applications page, and naming one here would quietly
# outrank it.
exec xdg-open "https://bang.gibbyb.com/?q=$1"
# outrank it. The engine is the webSearchUrl preference (Applications page);
# the shipped default asks DuckDuckGo, not somebody's personal redirector.
search_url="$(jq -r '.webSearchUrl // empty' "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/panama/settings.json" 2>/dev/null)"
[ -n "$search_url" ] || search_url="https://duckduckgo.com/?q="
exec xdg-open "${search_url}$1"
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
# @vicinae.mode silent
# @vicinae.icon ../../icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/panama-settings.svg
# @vicinae.description Open Applications in Settings.
# @vicinae.keywords ["settings", "default applications"]
# @vicinae.keywords ["settings", "web search engine", "default applications"]
exec "$HOME/.config/quickshell/scripts/panama-action" settings-page applications