Upgrade Font Awesome in Beautiful Hugo Theme

Technical adjustment to Font Awesome's official guide

Background

Beautiful Hugo comes with Font Awesome icons. However, it seems that it’s no longer maintained.

Goal

To upgrade Font Awesome to the current stable version (6.1.1).

Problem

The official guide for self-hosting Font Awesome Web Fonts + CSS suggests users to place the following files

filepath role
/fontawesome/webfonts/ Free Web Fonts
/fontawesome/css/all.min.css CSS file for using Free Web Fonts

into somewhere in my theme. The left column of the diagram features the folder assets/.

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