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found a nice screen blurring command that relies on ImageMagick


#!/bin/sh -e

# Take a screenshot
#scrot /tmp/screen_locked.png
import -window root /tmp/screen_locked.png

# Pixellate it 10x
mogrify -scale 10% -scale 1000% /tmp/screen_locked.png

# Lock screen displaying this image.
i3lock -i /tmp/screen_locked.png

# Turn the screen off after a delay.
sleep 60; pgrep i3lock && xset dpms force off

then we need xautolock, but there is no xautolock. so instead we try
https://github.com/fgsch/xidle

which locks only from the command line, not from the .i3/config.  so we compile xautolock from source fromhttps://github.com/l0b0/xautolock

finally we need to add a line to an x startup script like .xsessionrc or .i3/config to add the line

exec xautolock -time 1 -locker '~/.local/bin/fuzzy_lock.sh' &


pactl set-sink-volume 0 +15%

pactl set-sink-volume 0 -5dB

this is a cheap and apparently old printer.  Important points:

• It doesn’t connect to my WiFi — it needs a WPS button on the router
• It doesn’t work with USB3 ports, needs to be connected to an older port
• It needs to be rebooted prior it each printing session
• The paper tray needs to be unfolded from the back, and the paper catcher needs to be unfolded from the front.

ddrescue --force /dev/zero /dev/sdb log.txt