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Installing T2 Ubuntu on an Intel-based 2018 Mac Mini

Disclaimer: I am not liable or assuming responsibility for any actions/inactions you may or may not take while following these steps or those of the T2 Linux Wiki. Follow these at your own risk

This was extremely tricky, but in the end I was able to accomplish by following these steps. Note, you should follow the project's guidance on pre-install and recommendations on preparing the ISO/USB drive. This guide picks up at the "Disable Secure Boot" step.

Phase 1: Recovery Mode

This phase was tricky-because timing is critical when attempting to use the keyboard shortcut.

This will configure an Asustor NAS running ADM 5 to use a letsencrypt issued certificate without exposing the NAS to the internet (by using DNS Challenge instead of using port forwarding). To accomplish this, we need to use certbot with DNS-01 challenge to Cloudflare. To perform this task, you must SSH into the NAS.

Elevate the terminal to root

sudo su

Setup the required directories

Virsh Command Output Converted to JSON

List of VMs

vm_json=$(echo "[ $(virsh list --all|grep -Ev 'Id|----'|awk '{print "{ \"id\": \""$1"\", \"name\": \""$2"\", \"state\": \""$3 $4"\"}," }'|head -n -1) {} ]"|jq -r)

Example Output

HP iLO4 on Ubuntu Noble 24.04 for use with HP ProLiant 8th Gen Servers

If you're a homelabber and are interested in attempting to use the iLO4's agentless management functionality (how is it agentless if you have to install software on the OS?), you can do so by installing the HP AMS Package

Install the Agentless Management Service

sudo su -
wget https://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/mcp/pool/non-free/hp-ams_2.8.3-3056.1ubuntu16_amd64.deb
dpkg -i hp-ams_2.8.3-3056.1ubuntu16_amd64.deb

How to Set up a Palworld Dedicated Server On an Ubuntu 22.04 Host (VM or baremetal)

WORK IN PROGRESS

Because the documentation scattered around the internet is pretty inconsistent, I'm putting everything I've found that seems to work together here.

Overview

This took too much effort to get sorted out, so I'm documenting everything figured out so far here.

How to Update the Firmware of a Crucial Consumer SSD on Ubuntu 22.04 via the Terminal

This has been tested on Ubuntu 22.04 with 3x Crucial MX500 1TB SSDs purchased in 2023

Install the required packages

sudo apt-get install -y smartmontools unzip curl

Check your current firmware version and note it-you will want to be sure that you are actually updating the firmware version (replace sdX with your actual device's identifier-leaving off any partition numbers as you're checking the block device and not the data on it)

ASUS Falchion NX Key Combinations

Function Keys

Hot Key	Function
`FN` + `DEL`	Scroll Lock
`FN` + `CTRL`	Menu
`FN` + `P`	Print screen
`FN` + `PgDn`	End

How to Remap the Left-Alt and Left-Windows keys on the ASUS ROG Falchion NX (Mac Style Key Layout)

Because remapping can confuse the keyboard, we have to temporarily reprogram two keys outside of the left Windows and Left Alt keys that we're trying to work with in order to get the keys swapped like we want. It would be nice if the Armour Crate software would provide a way to specify a known key rather than having us type it-but c'est la vie!

Open Armoury Crate
On the left nav, click on the "Device" tab, then select your keyboard from the list
Click on the "Keys" tab at the top
Click on the / ? key in the Armoury Crate Window, then on the right side of the Window, toggle the drop down from Default to Keyboard Function
Now, click in the box that says "Click here then press the key."
Hold down the right Alt key on your keyboard and press the left Alt key, you will now see that the / ? key is set to Left Alt

Serverspec and RSpec Cheat Sheet

Setup

Initialize a serverspec directory with boilerplate

serverspec-init

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	###############################################################################
	# Minecraft Bedrock Server Update Script
	#
	# Intended to be used on Linux with a dedicated Bedrock Minecraft Server
	#
	# NOT COMPATIBLE WITH JAVA EDITION
	#
	# This script is intended to be used only in the following installation scenario