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Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a popular Linux distribution for desktops, servers, and cloud computing, known for its ease of use and robust community support.

Toshy
Toshy is a tool that remaps keyboard shortcuts on Linux to make them similar to MacOS, facilitating a smoother transition for Mac users.

This is my approach for running NordVPN in a network namespace, and then running rtorrent in that netns.

I did this on Fedora 39 in November 2023.

You need to get the wireguard details that the NordVPN client uses to get the private key, local ip, and local port number. This post is helpful.

This document was generated by running the following script

#!/bin/fish

for service in (qdbus "org.kde.*")
  echo "* $service"

  for path in (qdbus "$service")
    echo "** $path"

This concept is very much like .jar or .war archives in Java.

NOTE: The built .pyz zipapp can run on both Python 2 & 3 but you can only build .pyz zipapps with Python 3.5 or later.

	#!/bin/bash

	SERVICE="org.kde.KWin"
	DBUS_PATH="/org/kde/KWin/InputDevice"
	INTERFACE="org.kde.KWin.InputDevice"
	METHOD_GET="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get"
	METHOD_SET="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set"

	function find_touchpad {
	DM_INTERFACE="org.kde.KWin.InputDeviceManager"

	from evdev import UInput, ecodes as e
	import time

	# This class sends CTRL+SHIFT+U+<HEXCODE> sequences to produces arbitrary unicode characters.
	# It works fine on Gnome applications, but not on KDE
	# in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input#In_X11_.28Linux_and_other_Unix_variants.29
	class UnicodeInput:
	def __init__(self):
	keys = [
	e.KEY_LEFTCTRL,

	#!/bin/bash
	printf "\x07\x00\x00\x00\x00" > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/SystemAudioVolume-7c436110-ab2a-4bbb-a880-fe41995c9f82