Pip behind a corporate firewall The tldr is: Pip 23.3 or newer "just works" after you add a simple snippet to your config file. ; %AppData%\pip\pip.ini ; "${XDG_HOME-$HOME/.config}/pip/pip.ini" [global] use-feature = truststore However, said snippet will break older versions of pip. In particular, pip < 23.3, >= 22.2 will break, complaining that you need to install the "truststore" package before you can install any packages—a perfect "catch 22". As …
Can't install Twine on PyPy due to nh3 "Rust" problem
Quick fix, just run these commands if Twine refuses to install on PyPy on Windows due to a weird error about the nh3 package needing the non-PyPI dependency, Rust: REM on Windows pip install -v "readme-renderer < 42.0" & REM https://github.com/pypa/twine/issues/1015 pip install twine # on Mac and Linux pip install -v "readme-renderer < 42.0" # https://github.com/pypa/twine/issues/1015 pip install twine This won't pollute your registry or any other folders …
Rocky Linux / RHEL 9: playing DVDs on VLC
After all these years, it looks like Red Hat is still a bit scared to distribute THE NEEDFUL to play a DVD Video. After merely scooping a libdvdcss RPM from this cool guy's repository (the CentOS 8 RPM installed without issue on Rocky Linux 9), VLC instantly gained the ability to play DVDs. I could not find any other obvious source of the library for this operating system.
Remove 1px bar at top of full-screen Firefox
If you have a keen eye, you probably noticed the 1-pixel black bar at the top of your screen when you enter F11-fullscreen in Firefox. To fix this, you'll need to create this file: /* …/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default-esr/chrome/userChrome.css */ #fullscr-toggler { // background-color: red; display: none; } (If you can't figure out how to open that file or create it in the first place, this tutorial seems pretty good for Windows. …
Clearing the DNS cache on Ubuntu 20.04
Yeah, lots of people out there saying "leenucks doesn't have a dns cache!!1!" — well, recent versions of Ubuntu do ootb, and just restarting NetworkManager doesn't clear it for some ungodly reason… flush it with sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved
mcomix system-level requirements
Say you don't want sweeping system changes for something idiosynchronous like an unstable build of a comic book viewer…
The "real way" to run X11 apps as another local user
xhost +SI:localuser:$someoneElse
Quick Fix: remove "Mozilla VPN" ads from Firefox Private Browsing window
/* ~/.mozilla/firefox/…/chrome/userContent.css */
/* Remove advertisements for Mozilla VPN */
@-moz-document url(about:privatebrowsing) {
.promo {
display: none;
}
}Switching to Picom (Compton) on the MATE desktop
You may have read some convoluted (and outdated—Compton was abandoned in 2017) tutorials on the matter like MakeTechEasier's, or perused the excellent Arch Wiki article's page on it to some despair, but if you are just a layperson who installed the MATE desktop for e.g. Ubuntu 20.04 (Fossa) and wants a slightly faster (i.e. GPU-accelerated) environment, there is a workaround that doesn't take too long to set up: …
mcrcon: auto-parse password
alias mcrcon='env MCRCON_PASS="${MCRCON_PASS=$(sed -n -e '\''s/^rcon\.password=\(.\+\)/\1/p'\'' < server.properties)}" mcrcon'