Add notes on fixing breakage introduced by Zoom

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diff --git a/guides/setups/operating-systems/debian.org b/guides/setups/operating-systems/debian.org
index 1d182d5..bf8a810 100644
--- a/guides/setups/operating-systems/debian.org
+++ b/guides/setups/operating-systems/debian.org
@@ -374,6 +374,26 @@ $ apt install -t buster-backports \
       firmware-iwlwifi            \
       firmware-misc-nonfree
 #+end_src
+*** daily maintenance
+**** impromptu IBus
+Installing [[https://zoom.us/][Zoom]]'s Debian package somehow enabled IBus[fn:: AFAICT
+because ibus recommends im-config, and the latter autostarts the
+former by default], which unconditionally set my keyboard to English
+for some reason[fn:: Before properly running ~apt install
+./zoom_amd64.deb~, I had mistakenly run ~dpkg -i zoom_amd64.deb~,
+which failed because of missing dependencies.  Perhaps apt omitted
+some post-installation configuration hooks because the first dpkg run
+had left an error marker somewhere?].  Steps taken:
+
+1. Tweak IBus preferences, unset shortcuts (Emacs has a better
+   interface for searching/inserting Unicode characters), check "use
+   system defaults" for the keyboard layout.
+
+2. Go on a hunt for whoever spawns ibus-daemon(1); AFAICT it's
+   im-launch(1), which can be told not to use IBus through im-config
+   (which eventually just writes ~run_im none~ in =~/.xinputrc=).
+
+3. Eventually, maybe I should just uninstall im-config.
 * Someday
 ** fix xfce4-terminal opening links with firefox-esr
 ** fix Thunar opening images with Firefox instead of Ristretto