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Production-tested guide for setting up a multi-service storage architecture using ZFS datasets, unprivileged LXC containers, ACLs, and Samba/NFS sharing on Proxmox. ...

A practical migration guide from a Proxmox-hosted Synology NAS to TrueNAS SCALE with Docker Compose applications, including network topology planning and macvlan configuration. ...

Access your servers securely through Cloudflare’s Zero Trust network without exposing SSH ports or setting up VPNs. ...

A quick tip for properly parsing shell-style command strings when using Python’s subprocess.run() with list arguments. ...

A streamlined guide to running macOS in Docker using Docker-OSX, with headless VNC access for servers and remote setups. ...

An educational guide on downloading WEB-DL quality streams from Disney Plus using L3 Widevine decryption. For personal backup and archival purposes only. ...

A guide to using NoPayStation for PS Vita game preservation and backup, enabling legal owners to archive their digital purchases. ...

Deploy JupyterHub on a lightweight k3s Kubernetes cluster for small research labs and teams, without the overhead of full Kubernetes installations. ...

Introduction In this blog post, we will guide you through the process of setting up a baremetal Kubernetes cluster tailored specifically for the Neural Transmissions (NETS)1 lab, using NVIDIA DeepOps. JupyterHub, a multi-user server that manages and proxies multiple instances of the Jupyter notebook server, is a perfect fit for this research environment. It facilitates seamless collaboration and sharing of data science projects among researchers. Throughout this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to set up a Kubernetes cluster on baremetal servers equipped with NVIDIA GPUs, and get it ready for the deployment of JupyterHub. ...

OBS Studio flickering with Intel Graphics With some Intel graphics cards on XOrg (in my case, Tiger Lake Xe), OBS Studio will flicker with screen capture. sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "modesetting" EndSection Reboot or restart XOrg server to apply the fix. Delete Goodix Fingerprint Sensor saved fingerprint data If you installed Windows and enrolled fingerprints with Goodix Fingerprint Sensor, the saved fingerprint data will prevent new enrollments in Linux. ...

Follow instructions from https://guide.13375384.xyz/start or https://vita.hacks.guide/. Documents for compiling from sources for tools. Guide to mount TexFAT Note: Put device in airplane mode during the Content Manager connection process will make the steps much easier to do. DON’T MANUALLY SETTING YAMT, JUST USE YAMT SETUP USING VITADEPLOY (guide) FinalHE Check prerequisites (https://github.com/soarqin/finalhe) git clone https://github.com/soarqin/finalhe cd finalhe qmake && make Build artifacts in src/FinalHE. Copy VitaDeploy zip in the same folder as FinalHE binary ...

fstab mount with user permssion Use KDE/GNOME partition manager to manage mount point and use mount options: uid=1000,gid=1001,umask=022 Or append to /etc/fstab: UUID=<disk_UUID> <mount_point> <format> uid=1000,gid=1001,umask=022,noatime 0 1 fstab mount NTFS with kernel NTFS3 driver from kernel 5.15 Use KDE/GNOME partition manager to manage mount point, this will use the default mount.ntfs -> ntfs-3g driver. We need to change the mount driver to mount.ntfs3 in /etc/fstab: UUID=<disk_UUID> <mount_point> ntfs3 discard,noatime 0 0

Install zsh4humans I don’t need anything more fancy than romkatv’s zsh4humans sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/n0k0m3/Personal-Setup/main/Setting_up_Arch/setup.sh)" Install Nextcloud sudo pacman -S nextcloud-client Sync .dotfiles with Nextcloud + flameshot shortcut Setting up pacman and makepkg config sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf Set ParallelDownloads = 10: sudo nano /etc/makepkg.conf Set compile flags CFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native ..." and MAKEFLAGS="-j12" for 12 being total number of available cores/threads: Comparing current installation with installed packages of previous dist python3 read_install.py <installed.log file> Update installed.log with current setup Download export_install_deps.py{: .btn .btn–info } ...

By default Arch-based distros uses busybox init, which doesn’t support some features comfort from systemd. This guide will help you to setup systemd hooks, switch encryption to LUKS2 for systemd-cryptenroll, use U2F/FIDO2 key to unlock at boot, and Plymouth for boot splash screen. systemd hooks and Plymouth boot splash screen Follwing script will change busybox init to systemd hooks and setup plymouth with colorful_loop theme. Requirements: yay (default on EndeavourOS) ...

This is setup on EndeavourOS/Manjaro, on barebone Arch should be a little bit different (install yay before all of these steps) Arch setup Setting up Manjaro/EndeavourOS with Calamares installer using this partition Setup with SWAP file (turn on hibernation option): Partition Mount Point Filesystem Size Encryption Status EFI system partition /boot/efi FAT32 300-550 MB Unencrypted /boot partition /boot/efi ext4 200-500 MB Unencrypted root partition / btrfs/LUKS Rest of space Encrypted Note: mount EFI with boot flag and / with root flag. ...

Data Preprocessing Notebook link Cumulative Results Note: On Dec 2nd 2019, ProtonDB contribute workflow changed to a questionnaire, subsequently changed the data structures. All data prior to this date are for reference only and should NOT be inferred. Raw user counts per distro Normalized distro market share on ProtonDB Normalized distro market share on ProtonDB (Merged distro base) Arch Linux and Arch-based distro is on the rise, while Debian-based (Ubuntu) distros are on the decline. ...

Following guide was tested on EndeavourOS and Manjaro (Arch-based) Linux distro. Why? Installing dependencies and setting up notebooks is usually a PITA: installing CUDA with CuDNN and TensorRT doesn’t have a common and easy to follow guide, along with recent (not recent) release of python 3.9, most ML/DL packages are not updated to this wheel. Also setting up venv is hard to maintain and migrate as you have to backup the whole environment to other machine. ...

Why single GPU passthrough? Because I’m poor, using Ryzen non-APU CPU, and I don’t want to buy a second GPU just for passthrough. I’m using a single GPU passthrough for gaming on Windows and using Linux as my daily driver. In this guide, we will be going over how to set up a single GPU passthrough on Linux. This guide is meant to be a reference for myself and others who want to learn how to set up a single GPU passthrough on Linux. I’m using Arch Linux as the host OS, but this guide should work on any Linux distro. ...