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Fedora: Installing Development Dependencies

Python

sudo dnf install make gcc patch zlib-devel bzip2 bzip2-devel readline-devel sqlite sqlite-devel openssl-devel tk-devel libffi-devel xz-devel libuuid-devel gdbm-libs libnsl2

Ruby

Mastodon Media Attachment Cleanup Scripts

The following bash scripts can be used to clean up the Mastodon caches to recover some space.

Simple RFC 2324 Implementation in NGINX

server {
  # Usual site configuration stuff here
  
  location / {
    # Add any other configuration for the main location here
    
 if ($request_method = BREW) {

Updating pacman and archinstall while booting off of live ISO

 pacman -Sy
 pacman -S archlinux-keyring
 pacman -S archinstall

Installing FreeBSD 14.2 on a Steam Deck

Update: A full write-up has been posted on my blog at: https://linhpham.org/blog/2025/installing-running-freebsd-on-steam-deck/. The post also includes some corrections and new learnings since creating this gist.

Installing onto the internal NVMe SSD

Download and burn a FreeBSD 14.2 amd64 installer ISO from FreeBSD.org
Burn the installer ISO on to a USB drive, or use a multi-boot tool like IODD or Ventoy
Use a USB dock or hub (Anker PowerExpand or 543 6-in-1 USB hub is what I've been using) with USB power delivery pass-through to connect the following devices:
USB-C power adapter

Installing required packages in order to build Ruby using rbenv:

apt-get install autoconf patch build-essential rustc libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev libgmp-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgdbm6 libgdbm-dev libdb-dev uuid-dev

Source:

Use Native File Chooser in Firefox

Browse to about:config
Set widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker to 1
Optionally: Set widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.location to 1
Optionally: Set widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.mime-handler to 1

Use Native File Chooser in Thunderbird

Open Thunderbird Settings

	Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
	\| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
	\|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
	\|\|/ Name Version Architecture Description
	+++-=======================================-====================================-============-================================================================================
	ii 7zip 24.09+dfsg-8 amd64 7-Zip file archiver with a high compression ratio
	ii accountsservice 23.13.9-7 amd64 query and manipulate user account information
	ii acl 2.3.2-2+b1 amd64 access control list - utilities
	ii adduser 3.152 all add and remove users and groups
	ii adwaita-icon-theme

	/* IBM Plex Mono */
	@font-face {
	font-family: mastodon-font-monospace;
	src: local("IBM Plex Mono Italic"), url(/packs/media/fonts/ibm-plex/IBMPlexMono-Italic.woff2) format("woff2"), url(/packs/media/fonts/ibm-plex/IBMPlexMono-Italic.woff) format("woff"), url(/packs/media/fonts/ibm-plex/IBMPlexMono-Italic.ttf) format("truetype");
	font-weight: 400;
	font-display: swap;
	font-style: italic
	}

	@font-face {

	[buildPlans.IosevkaTermina]
	family = "Iosevka Termina"
	spacing = "term"
	serifs = "sans"
	noCvSs = true
	exportGlyphNames = false

	[buildPlans.IosevkaTermina.variants]
	inherits = "ss14"