Bill Haofei Gong x-magic

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

Video game rom codes

You wouldn't download a car...

Primary rom codes

Probably what you're looking for

[a] Alternate (alternate version of the game, usually trying a different output method)
[p] Pirate

Last updated: April 2021

Also known as itag or format codes and way back they could be specified with the fmt parameter (e.g. &fmt=22). Depending on the age and/or popularity of the video, not all formats will be available.

DASH video

Resolution	AV1 HFR High	AV1 HFR	AV1	VP9.2 HDR HFR	VP9 HFR	VP9	H.264 HFR	H.264
	MP4	MP4	MP4	WebM	WebM	WebM	MP4	MP4

SpaceVim doc to become proper cheatsheet one day

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Running Plex in an Unprivileged LXC with Intel QuickSync Passthrough

First setup an unprivileged Ubuntu container with Plex Media Server installed. Inside the container take note of the id of the plex group.

# Your Plex group's ID may be different
$ getent group plex | cut -d : -f3
998

Pocket Chip Debian 10 Upgrade Guide

The purpose of this tutorial is to walk through the required steps to upgrade NXT chip (or pocketchip) from debian jessie to debian buster.

If you would like to start your Chip from scratch, follow the steps in the Preparation section.

Preparation (Optional)

A linux host machine, recommended Ubuntu 18.04. However I managed to do it with 20.10 with some tweak.

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# This script converts SMS encoded with UTF-8 to UCS2 format expected by smsd.
	# To use it, edit your /etc/smsd.conf and add the following line:
	#
	# checkhandler = /path/to/smstools-utf8-to-ucs2.sh
	#
	# When creating a new message in /var/spool/outgoing/, add the following header line:
	#
	# Alphabet: UTF-8

	Retail NAND FIRM:

	Perfect Signature:
	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

	Exponentiated Message:
	0002B31331C710412333A587890F9CF0B6A86E71C8A78F96B76082903B3E54EA9AB935978BBF2493BB829E9A5A6060B0C7811881176BCF9FE8B1C5C5E0A95327DB8B52EC178A884AD9CF28DB8BBF2922C05FD034AC81BD231AEB0CBEF6F7DE6F3A30812B9F9A83BF33251891BFA18FA38A64C6FF5F77DBE11C3780C23EA9F6D00F9C01D6FC8A878591D36C4F64ACA6B8D11BBEB21476103C6E86FF2196D465BA4DB78F81F1D3BCCA186BDDD56739A12DD36122F3F5B3DD518DDAC4FA29395EA4CD9DFD80AF8A399990F4FDD3CD6B07EC2122437CCFC3B62B1D1493A7DBB442003

	Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

	; 7-Zip Windows 11 Context Menu entries via whitelisted id reuse example by AveYo

	; Add to archive.. only single files (multiple would need a single instance redirect tool)
	[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\connectNetworkDrive]
	[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shell\connectNetworkDrive]
	"MuiVerb"="@C:\\Program Files\\7-Zip\\7-zip.dll,-2324"
	"Position"="Middle"
	"Icon"="C:\\Program Files\\7-Zip\\7-zip.dll,0"

	#!/bin/bash

	URLs=$(curl "https://dl.google.com/dl/edgedl/chromeos/recovery/cloudready_recovery2.json" \
	-s --output - \| \
	grep "^.\"url\".$" \| \
	sed "s/.\"url\": \"\(.\)\".*$/\1/g")

	printf "\nPick which channel to download your image from. Channel name is near the end of the URL.\n\n"

	select URL in $URLs;