diff --git a/users/alice/systems/artemision/configuration.nix b/users/alice/systems/artemision/configuration.nix
index 8fa824c..c4e5b4d 100644
--- a/users/alice/systems/artemision/configuration.nix
+++ b/users/alice/systems/artemision/configuration.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
     ./fonts.nix
     ./polkit.nix
     ./pipewire.nix
+    ./fingerprint.nix
+    ./nix-doc.nix
   ];
 
   time.timeZone = "America/New_York";
diff --git a/users/alice/systems/artemision/fingerprint.nix b/users/alice/systems/artemision/fingerprint.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0ffda8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/users/alice/systems/artemision/fingerprint.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+
+# borrowed from https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/171136
+# and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fprint#Login_configuration
+# and also this internal/experimental feature:
+# https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/255547
+#
+# This should allow fprintd to go after pam_unix (so it asks for your password first!)
+{
+
+  # to generate this its going to look something like this
+  # rg "fprintd" --follow /etc/pam.d | sed -nr 's/\/etc\/pam.d\/(\w+)/\1/p' | cut -d ':' -f 1 | awk '{printf "security.pam.services.%s.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;\n",$1}'
+security.pam.services.passwd.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.auth.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.chpasswd.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.groupdel.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.groupadd.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.useradd.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.i3lock.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.systemd-user.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.sudo.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.userdel.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.chfn.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.su.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.usermod.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.groupmems.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.chsh.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.i3lock-color.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.xscreensaver.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.xlock.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.polkit-1.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.vlock.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.runuser-l.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.groupmod.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+security.pam.services.runuser.rules.auth.fprintd.order=11501;
+}
diff --git a/users/alice/systems/artemision/nix-doc.nix b/users/alice/systems/artemision/nix-doc.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..df8b6a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/users/alice/systems/artemision/nix-doc.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+
+{
+  nix.extraOptions = ''
+    plugin-files = ${pkgs.nix-doc}/lib/libnix_doc_plugin.so
+  '';
+
+  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
+    nix-doc
+  ];
+}
diff --git a/users/alice/systems/artemision/programs.nix b/users/alice/systems/artemision/programs.nix
index d6be284..43be659 100644
--- a/users/alice/systems/artemision/programs.nix
+++ b/users/alice/systems/artemision/programs.nix
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
     uutils-coreutils-noprefix
     ventoy
     wget
+    zoom-us
     zoxide
     zsh-nix-shell
   ];