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Install Balatro Mods on Linux Mint Steam

Open Steam

Select Library -> Balatro -> Gear Icon -> Properties

On LAUNCH OPTIONS put:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="version=n,b" %command%

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"Factory" option in Car Settings
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Developer Options Password: 
yyyy.mm.dd

ex: 2025.01.01

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Fixing Nvidia Drivers to Use With Plex

I've read through what seems like infinity stack**** posts and various other things, this worked for me on a server with a Tesla card running Mint kernel 6.8.x

Errors

$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure 

that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

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Orange Pi 4A NVME

Instructions for using the NVME card as your root directory and making a second partition for /home.

Unfortunately you still need to boot off of the sdcard, until someone releases an SPI partition to boot directly from the NVME.

Optionally enable X11 forwarding for sudo, assuming your sshing into the device.

sudo xauth add $(xauth -f /home/pjobson/.Xauthority list|tail -1)

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Installing USB Advanced Card Systems, Ltd ACR122U NFC Reader / Writer (Debian, Mint, Ubuntu)

Intro

I've found a lot of conflicting information on getting one of these up and running on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint, this is a guide to what I did to get mine working. This was tested on Orange Pi 1.0.2 Bookworm aarch64 and Linux Mint 21.3 x86_64.

The OrangePi (and possibly other SBC devices) does not provide enough power to the USB port to activate the reader. You will need to get a powered USB hub.

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#!/bin/bash

# Steam on Linux doesn't seem to like to actually
# quit, when you tell it to quit.

# Get all of the Steam processes
STEAMPROCESSES=$(ps aux | grep Steam | grep valvesoftware)

# Loop and kill them one-by-one
while read STEAMPROCESSES; do

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wget http://ftp.net.usf.edu/pub/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/ncurses/libtinfo5_6.3-2_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.net.usf.edu/pub/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/ncurses/libncurses5_6.3-2_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.net.usf.edu/pub/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/ncurses/libncursesw5_6.3-2_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i libtinfo5_6.3-2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libncurses5_6.3-2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libncursesw5_6.3-2_amd64.deb
    
rm -f libtinfo5_6.3-2_amd64.deb libncurses5_6.3-2_amd64.deb libncursesw5_6.3-2_amd64.deb

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#!/bin/bash

if [[ $1 = "" ]]; then
  echo "Shows video length in minutes."
  echo "Expects: videoduration.sh filename.mp4"
else
  length=$(ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 "${1}" | sed -E 's/\.[[:digit:]]+$//')
  zpad=`printf %03d $(($length / 60))`
  echo "${zpad} min - ${1}"
fi

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Linux Bluetooth CLI with BluetoothCTL

I've had a lot of problems using the built in blueman application under Ubuntu/Mint distributions. I'm not exactly sure why, frequently devices will connect then instantly disconnect. I've parsed through various StackOverflow articles and other help pages, I could never get a working answer.

WARNING

If you're having bluetooth issues, do not uninstall the libbluetooth3 package. It

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Direct Install:

Exec=sh -c 'GDK_SCALE=2 steam %U'

Flatpak Install:

sh -c 'GDK_SCALE=1.5 /usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=/app/bin/steam --file-forwarding com.valvesoftware.Steam @@u %U @@'