John Cyrill Corsanes jcchikikomori

📖 Contents

📚 Basics
- 🧾 Practical Cheat Sheet for BusyBox vi
🌐 Configure using LuCi

How to setup SQM QoS for GeForce Now on OpenWrt routers with Qosify Cake for no packet loss and frame loss

I was trying to setup and optimize SQM QoS (Smart Queue Management and Quality of Service) on my router for Cloud Gaming, and specifically for GeForce Now, for quite some time. I hope these findings will be useful to someone.

Smart Queue Management is great and works amazingly to reduce bufferbloat, and by default it's optimized for Voice calls and fair queue between all traffic.

Git Commit Freeze Due to GPG Lock Issues

If you encounter a problem where you cannot commit changes in Git – neither through the terminal nor via the GitHub Desktop application – the issue might be a freeze during the Git commit process. This is often caused by GPG lock issues. Below is a concise and step-by-step guide to resolve this problem.

Solution Steps

1. Check for GPG Lock Messages

Open your terminal and try to perform a GPG operation (like signing a test message). If you see repeated messages like gpg: waiting for lock (held by [process_id]) ..., it indicates a lock issue.

Install BetterDiscord on Linux

This Gist contains simple instructions on how to install, update, and uninstall BetterDiscord on Linux.

For more thorough documentation, take a look at betterdiscordctl's README.

Do NOT submit issues here as I don't check the comments. You should submit them here instead.

My Fedora Silverblue 40 Setup

selinux, zstd, flatpak, layered, thinkfan, thinkpad t430, thinkpad t480, tailscale, vscode, nix, rpm-fusion, disable network connectivity check, battery charge threshold, firefox, gnome, nautilus, gnome-terminal, boxes, celluloid, declarative system changes

Change zstd compression version 1 to 3

With kickstarter while install

https://github.com/queeup/silverblue-kickstarter

Activate Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and 11 Pro for Free

A guide how to get and activate Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and 11 Pro for free!

NOTE

If you see the Windows keyboard button in this guide; and you can't find it on your keyboard, you likely have/had Windows 10 which has the button . If you can't find that one, you likely have a PC that has been upgraded to Windows 8/8.1/10/11 from Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista/XP and other ones. If you have one of those, refer the Windows key button to as yours. A list of them is below:

Windows key buttons

- Windows 11

- Windows 10

An guide how to activate Windows 11 Pro for free

Why?

Because you will get some more features like an Bitlocker and host your device as an External Desktop which can be accessed through the internet

Am i also able to switch from any other edition to Pro?

The answer is yes! You can switch from almost any edition to Pro completely for free!

Note for users with unactivated Pro edition

People which already have Pro, but not activated, can skip to this step.

Getting started

What you first need to do is open CMD (Command Prompt) as Administrator using this keyboard key:

Why

You may want to use AdGuard's DNS over HTTPS[^2] service if you

Want to make it harder for your ISP to know what websites you are requesting
Want to block most traditional ads from your web browsing experience across your entire PC

Setup instructions

Open PowerShell

	#Fully based on https://boxofcables.dev/accelerated-kvm-guests-on-wsl-2/
	if [ -z "$1" ]
	then
	echo "Must supply your Windows 10 username"
	exit
	fi
	WIN_USERNAME=$1

	#package updates and installations

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# Enable networkd and resolved
	systemctl enable systemd-networkd
	systemctl enable systemd-resolved
	systemctl restart systemd-networkd
	systemctl restart systemd-resolved

	# Init pacman mirror
	curl -s -L "https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/?country=CN&country=JP&country=SG&country=KR&protocol=https&ip_version=4&use_mirror_status=on" \| sed -e 's/^#Server/Server/' -e '/^#/d' > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist