This is an odd one, cause it’s also medical I think? Or just scientific like hermaphroditic plants. For sure a person-slur though. Like a person may be hermaphroditic, but at the very least it’s a faux pas to call them a hermaphrodite, if not derogatory outright.

Immcatulate catception (I couldn’t decide on just one)

Having another whole system to develop something cancerous probably doesn’t help, but that’s interesting. I’m guessing it could cause unusual stresses on the body throughout aging too. I hope fixing/spaying mitigates the risk! Such a pretty one, and extra enigmatic.

I always assumed that sort of situation would render them sterile. It probably varies but the more you know!

Well, I suppose fixing has hormonal consequences too and not just reproductive, now that I think about it.

I use keyd for software remapping now, and I like it a lot more than xkb’s esoteric options. It has functionality for layers like layer:C, where any “passthrough” input will have the defined modifier (or combo like C-S-M), but you can define whatever other bindings inside.

Long story short, I’ve used it to remap caps, control, shift (with a custom shift layer for some symbols), and meta, with overloads, double tap/hold into layers, oneshots, timeouts, and all sorts of (surprisingly fluid) nonsense. It’s so much easier than wading through xkb options for me.

To sidestep the question slightly less, I always got rid of capslock altogether instead of swapping. That still leaves true escape to be hit accidentally, but I think there should be an option to change escape too?

Edit: what I always used was

# make CapsLock behave like Ctrl:
setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

# make short-pressed Ctrl behave like Escape:
xcape -e 'Control_L=Escape'

from here

I’ve always been a software guy, but man does building and doing something more physical sound fun. And the community around it all. I plan to get started (at some point) with a homeserver. Networking always felt more high stakes with security and privacy than the application side. Indie web has been calling my name though.

After finally getting into some embedded/iot tech, privacy, and tbh my own socialist awakening, I’ve been really interested in this kind of stuff.

Is it mostly about awareness or is there something more substantial to the practice and research? It’s such an odd concept to me I haven’t sussed out the details further than the hacker-y, just for fun, “because I can” projects. I’d love to use some tech skills for real purpose.

Every now and then I get the feeling there might be something about them. Are they like supremely comfortable? Everyone I see wearing them nowadays seems chill and makes it look like they’re comfy.

Either that or the country has fully devolved into Walmart as Idiocracy foretold.