just learned that my colleagues rotate VS Code by 1 degree when you leave your laptop unattended
@merlin question: HOW?
@merlin did they inject CSS into your VS Code's Electron?!?
@jn you can just open the dev tools from the help menu
@yassie_j because you left your PC unattended lol
@yassie_j @merlin have you never rearranged someone else’s keyboard from QWERTY into the world-famed ABCDEF layout? 
@domi @merlin 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

@yassie_j @merlin  

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”

@yassie_j @domi @merlin a couple of girls at my school got into big trouble for replacing all the mouse balls with white Maltesers.

@domi @yassie_j @merlin

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

@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.
@merlin I want to know how to do this.
@feonixrift Help > Open Developer Tools, find the body element and add rotate: 1deg to the CSS

@merlin @feonixrift I think it's like

body { transform: rotate(1deg); }

Or for maximum chaos,

* { transform: rotate(1deg); }
@merlin @feonixrift successfully used this on my partner's laptop 😈

@TerrorBite @merlin @feonixrift
For even more chaos:

* { transform: rotate(random(-1deg, 1deg)); }

@merlin monster
Teach me their ways!!!

@merlin this should fix it

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

well, of course @xssfox has specialist knowledge in this area, but I think they're on Windows ... unless that works under WSL2? hmmm ... it might at that if @merlin were using the Linux binary for VS Code ...
@xssfox @merlin it could be worse though - at one workplace the threat was having your desktop background changed to a picture of David Hasslehoff ...
@mherbert @xssfox @merlin in my day you'd have subtle changes to your termcap file that would take ages to discover
@devopscats @xssfox @merlin a favourite is to just remap the monitor layout, so that if you want to get to the left hand monitor you need to leave on the opposite side from the one on the right ... pure evil ...

@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

@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...

@TeflonTrout @merlin To a former (non-tech) colleague who was always leaving her desktop unattended, I took a screenshot, mirrored it upside down, moved all the icons in a safe place, changed the desktop and mirrored her screen upside down (there's a keyboard shortcut for that). Her desktop was looking normal but the mouse going the wrong way and not being able to navigate menus made her panic, we quickly had to revert it 😅
@TeflonTrout
At least in Windows, there's an option "Show desktop icons" or similar in the context menu. No deletion needed.
@merlin
how do you even bring this up "hey why is my vscode Slightly Askew"
@merlin I just did this on my own copy, and it's REALLY ANNOYING ME even at 0.2deg, because it's subtle enough that the angle isn't immediately noticeable, but everything is immediately BLURRY and it feels like my eyes just aren't focusing on it!
Full 90/180 draw crisp and clean, tho.

@merlin this is gonna be wonderfully subtle for the first few times

unlike one office I worked at where people found the "rotate everything 180 degrres" setting in windows ...

@merlin literally unhinged
@merlin going to start doing this

@merlin

A former colleague used to add a bit of javascript to his blog posts on the company's internal server. He chose a small random rotation so that it changed every reload. Most of the time it was hardly noticeable but messed up the font rendering. 😉
The tricky part there was that the blog was on a well-known collaboration platform so it wasn't as straightforward as editing the CSS or page head.

Some worse examples here:
https://thelancashireman.org/dragons/

Hold on to your hat!

Here be dragons

@merlin @zaphodb That’s even more insidious than replacing the $ in the shell prompt with a # 😂