John Cyrill Corsanes jcchikikomori

Start non-steam games using bottles

My tutorial is based on this one from pudquick

Side note

Introduction

Disclaimer: I know that there are many ways to start a non-steam game on the

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.

Running shell scripts easily in Gaming mode on Steam Deck

(Alternatively: "How I stopped using Syncthing on Steam Deck")

Disclaimer: As the title implies, this is about shell scripting on your Steam Deck. The guide won't teach you how to do that part, it assumes you already have ideas in mind about what scripts you'd want to write. Stopping the usage of Syncthing was what I wanted to do with it, but you can do whatever you like.

Background (you can skip this part)

If you're an avid gamer who picked up a Steam Deck and now you're splitting your time between it and a more traditional gaming computer (or in my case, several other gaming systems as well), you may come across a situation where at some point you want to start doing more advanced things on your Steam Deck - which may mean "how do I get files onto or off of this thing".

This will be a step by step guide on exactly how I installed box86 on my Acer Spin 513 equipped with a Snapdragon 7C. This guide should work for several other Snapdragon Chromebooks, though YMMV. Mediatek devices will follow a similar setup, but you will compile the Rockchip (RK3399 or similar) version instead of SD845. Now on with the show:

Step 1 - Setting up Crostini

I've tried this on Crouton, but unfortunately it just doesn't seem to work on my ARM based Chromebook. If you have Crouton installed on an Intel Chromebook, it should work, but I'm not sure about AMD based Chromebooks, as their graphics drivers are different.

It's tempting to immediately create a new Crostini container, but that's actually not what we need here just yet. You see, box86 relies on something called binfmt-support in order to work. Inside Crostini, this means creating a "privileged" lxc container. You may want to have a separate container just for running x86 applications in; for this guide, I'll be using one called "x86" for

My Fedora Silverblue 41 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, ptyxis-terminal, boxes, celluloid, declarative system changes

Change zstd compression version 1 to 3

With kickstarter while install

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

对于所有应用，不建议直接删除，使用adb shell pm disable-user package-name禁用即可，方便出问题时恢复。

DO NOT UNINSTALL:

com.miui.securitycenter
com.miui.securityadd
com.xiaomi.finddevice

(Don’t uninstall these three apps or services from your Xiaomi device. Otherwise, you may encounter device bricking or bootloop issues.)

Install Any PHP on Arch / Manjaro

Through the AUR it is possible to install older and newer PHP versions, simultaneously on the same system. I often had trouble installing using pacman and pamac so here's what I did:

mkdir -p $HOME/bin
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/php81.git
cd php81

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

	# Virtual memory settings.
	# Kernel documentation: https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.html.
	# Arch zram: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/zram#Optimizing_swap_on_zram.
	# Gaming tuning: https://pastebin.com/fwzW9whL.
	# PopOS tuning: https://github.com/pop-os/default-settings/pull/163.
	# MaxPerformanceWizard (MPW) https://gitlab.com/cscs/maxperfwiz/-/blob/master/maxperfwiz.

	boot.kernel.sysctl = {
	# Tunes how aggressively kernel evicts memory pages until a specific amount of free memory is left for your active working set
	## Sweet spot for gaming is 125-200, near 200 makes kswapd swap too aggressive

	#!/bin/sh
	cage -- bash -c 'wlr-randr --output X11-1 --custom-mode 1280x800; sleep 1; sudo /usr/local/bin/waydroid-helper & waydroid show-full-ui'