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This is a living document that will expand alongside my own personal experiences and knowledge. Topics range from device settings, computer configurations, household product serial numbers / expiry dates, and so on. Hopefully this can end up being helpful to others as well.

Open Suck

My personal, lightweight desktop installer for OpenBSD based on the suckless philosophy. Includes my own custom set of suckless tools (dwm, slstatus, dmenu, etc.)

• https://git.sr.ht/~bt/open-suck

vimrc

" Don't try to be vi compatible
set nocompatible

" Helps force plugins to load correctly when it is turned back on below
filetype off

" TODO: Load plugins here (pathogen or vundle)

" Turn on syntax highlighting
syntax on

" For plugins to load correctly
filetype plugin indent on

" TODO: Pick a leader key
" let mapleader = ","

" Security
set modelines=0

" Show line numbers
set number

" Show file stats
set ruler

" Blink cursor on error instead of beeping (grr)
set visualbell

" Encoding
set encoding=utf-8

" Whitespace
set wrap
set textwidth=79
set formatoptions=tcqrn1
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set softtabstop=2
set expandtab
set noshiftround

" Cursor motion
set scrolloff=3
set backspace=indent,eol,start
set matchpairs+=<:> " use % to jump between pairs
runtime! macros/matchit.vim

" Move up/down editor lines
nnoremap j gj
nnoremap k gk

" Allow hidden buffers
set hidden

" Rendering
set ttyfast

" Status bar
set laststatus=2

" Last line
set showmode
set showcmd

" Searching
nnoremap / /\v
vnoremap / /\v
set hlsearch
set incsearch
set ignorecase
set smartcase
set showmatch
map <leader><space> :let @/=''<cr> " clear search

" Remap help key.
inoremap <F1> <ESC>:set invfullscreen<CR>a
nnoremap <F1> :set invfullscreen<CR>
vnoremap <F1> :set invfullscreen<CR>

" Textmate holdouts

" Formatting
map <leader>q gqip

" Visualize tabs and newlines
set listchars=tab:▸\ ,eol:¬
" Uncomment this to enable by default:
" set list " To enable by default
" Or use your leader key + l to toggle on/off
map <leader>l :set list!<CR> " Toggle tabs and EOL

" Color scheme (terminal)
set t_Co=256
set background=dark
let g:solarized_termcolors=256
let g:solarized_termtrans=1
" put https://raw.github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized/master/colors/solarized.vim
" in ~/.vim/colors/ and uncomment:
" colorscheme solarized

.zshrc extras / aliases

export EDITOR="/bin/vim"

alias suck="sudo rm -rf config.h ; sudo make install"
alias fixmonitor="xrandr --auto --output eDP1 --mode 1366x768 --below DP2-2"
alias vscode="alias vscode="ENABLE_WASM=1 chrome --enable-wasm --disable-unveil""

mimeapps.list

Place this file under /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list

[Default Applications]
x-scheme-handler/http=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
x-scheme-handler/ftp=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
x-scheme-handler/chrome=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
text/html=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
application/x-extension-htm=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
application/x-extension-html=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
application/x-extension-shtml=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
application/xhtml+xml=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
application/x-extension-xhtml=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
application/x-extension-xht=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
image/jpeg=feh
image/png=feh
image/webp=feh

qutebrowser

Greasemonkey

All of these scripts should be added under ~/.local/share/qutebrowser/greasemonkey/. Then be sure to run the proper command within qutebrowser: :greasemonkey-reload

Auto Skip YouTube Ads

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Auto Skip YouTube Ads 
// @version      1.0.0
// @description  Speed up and skip YouTube ads automatically 
// @author       jso8910
// @match        *://*.youtube.com/*
// @exclude      *://*.youtube.com/subscribe_embed?*
// ==/UserScript==
setInterval(() => {
    const btn = document.querySelector('.videoAdUiSkipButton,.ytp-ad-skip-button')
    if (btn) {
        btn.click()
    }
    const ad = [...document.querySelectorAll('.ad-showing')][0];
    if (ad) {
        document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 10;
    }
}, 50)

ffmpeg to MP4

ffmpeg -i input_filename.avi -c:v copy -c:a copy -y output_filename.mp4

Mount USB HDD via CLI

mkdir /media/usb-drive
mount /dev/sdX /media/usb-drive/

Run Mullvad on Alpine Linux (Wireguard)

# Install wireguard
apk add wireguard-tools

Login into Mullvad and download the proper wireguard configuration files(s). After downloaded, place in the proper directory:

doas cp <MULLVAD_FILENAME>.conf /etc/wireguard/"

Then setup an aliases for easier up/down states:

alias vpnup="doas wg-quick up /etc/wireguard/<MULLVAD_FILENAME>.conf"
alias vpndown="doas wg-quick down /etc/wireguard/<MULLVAD_FILENAME>.conf"

Alpine Linux mini_racer Tweaks

Gem lockfile:

PLATFORMS
  ruby
  x86_64-linux-musl

mini_racer (0.6.3)
 <remove child dependency>

then run: bundle update mini_racer

Docker

Installing ghost

docker pull ghost

docker run -d \
    --name ghost-name \
    -e NODE_ENV=development \
    -p 2368:2368 \
    -v $HOME/path/to/ghost/blog:/var/lib/ghost/content \
    ghost:alpine

MongoDB 3.4 on Ubuntu 23.10

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/668089858/libssl1.0.0_1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.13_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./libssl1.0.0_1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.13_amd64.deb
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10

echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu precise/mongodb-org/3.4 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.4.list

Now edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.4.list:

deb [trusted=yes] http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu precise/mongodb-org/3.4...

Then finish things up:

sudo apt-get update --allow-unauthenticated
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

sudo mkdir -p /data/db
sudo chmod -R 777 /data/db

Redis 6.0.7 on Ubuntu 23.10

sudo apt-get install build-essential tcl
cd /tmp
curl -O http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-6.0.7.tar.gz
tar xzvf redis-6.0.7.tar.gz
cd redis-6.0.7

Install redis:

make
make test
sudo make install

sudo mkdir /etc/redis
sudo cp /tmp/redis-6.0.7redis.conf /etc/redis

Edit /etc/redis/redis.conf with the following changes:

• supervised systemd
• dir /var/lib/redis

Create systemd unit file for redis: /etc/systemd/system/redis.service:

[Unit]
Description=Redis In-Memory Data Store
After=network.target

[Service]
User=redis
Group=redis
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf
ExecStop=/usr/local/bin/redis-cli shutdown
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Final steps:

sudo adduser --system --group --no-create-home redis
sudo mkdir /var/lib/redis
sudo chown redis:redis /var/lib/redis
sudo chmod 770 /var/lib/redis

Ruby 2.7.2 with rbenv on Ubuntu 23.10

Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file:

deb [trusted=yes] http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main

Then run sudo apt-get update. After completion, install libssl1.0-dev:

sudo apt-get install libssl1.0-dev

Fix screen tearing

sudo micro /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Add the following contents to 20-intel.conf:

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
    MatchDriver "i915"
    Driver      "intel"
    Option      "DRI"       "3"
    Option      "TearFree"  "1"
EndSection

Enabling “tap to click"

sudo micro /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf

Add the following contents to 30-touchpad.conf:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad"
    Driver "libinput"
    MatchIsTouchpad "on"
    Option "Tapping" "on"
    Option "TappingButtonMap" "lmr"
EndSection

Woocommerce

Reset all product menu_order to 0

UPDATE wp_posts SET menu_order = 0 WHERE post_type = 'product';