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Ubuntu 24.04 Firefox snap replacement

I need a proper Firefox installation and not the snap version. The snap version does not work properly with Smart Cards. Although it seems to be possible to get it to work with smart cards it is extremely difficult and I don't care to try and make it work. This is not a tutorial on how to get your PIV or CAC to work. Also snaps suck. Canonical will heopfully abandon snaps in the future.

Remove Snap Firefox

sudo snap disable firefox
sudo snap remove --purge firefox
error: cannot perform the following tasks:
- Remove data for snap "firefox" (1943) (unlinkat /var/snap/firefox/common/host-hunspell/en_ZA.dic: read-only file system)

How to setup a practically free CDN using Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare

⚠️ Note 2023-01-21
Some things have changed since I originally wrote this in 2016. I have updated a few minor details, and the advice is still broadly the same, but there are some new Cloudflare features you can (and should) take advantage of. In particular, pay attention to Trevor Stevens' comment here from 22 January 2022, and Matt Stenson's useful caching advice. In addition, Backblaze, with whom Cloudflare are a Bandwidth Alliance partner, have published their own guide detailing how to use Cloudflare's Web Workers to cache content from B2 private buckets. That is worth reading,

How to Crack Sublime Text 3.2.2 Build 3211 with Hex Editor (Windows | Without License) ↓

Download & Install Sublime Text 3.2.2 Build 3211
Visit https://hexed.it/
Open file select sublime_text.exe
Offset 0x8545: Original 84 -> 85
Offset 0x08FF19: Original 75 -> EB
Offset 0x1932C7: Original 75 -> 74 (remove UNREGISTERED in title bar, so no need to use a license)

Automated Patching

Download slt.py python script (supports multiple build) from this repository.

Usage

python slt.py <"sublime_text file path">

Manual Patching

Reddit post (Archived)

Table of Content

What to expect?
- Some TLDR about the idea behind
Prerequisites
- Hardware
- System & Software
Update: Attention for MUXless laptop

Update 28 July 2019: An updated version of this guide for Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS is now available. Feel free to check it out.

Update 23 May 2020: This guide is ALREADY OUTDATED and might no longer work with new versions of Ubuntu and VirtualBox. Please consider switching to the updated guide instead. I will no longer respond to the replies to this gist. Thank you.

Mounting VirtualBox shared folders on Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS

This guide will walk you through steps on how to setup a VirtualBox shared folder inside your Ubuntu Server guest. Tested on Ubuntu Server 16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

	1. Add a virtual serial port to the VM using PVE Web GUI and restart the VM

	2. Enable and start the virtual serial port on VM, change tty number as needed (Reference: https://askubuntu.com/a/621209/838946)
	$ sudo systemctl enable [email protected]
	$ sudo systemctl start [email protected]

	3. Done! You can now select xterm.js in the PVE Web GUI

	#!/bin/bash

	set -o errexit
	set -o nounset
	set -o pipefail

	target="${1:-/opt/sublime_merge/sublime_merge}"

	check_sha() {
	local sha_valid

	server {
	listen 80;
	server_name EXTERNAL_THINGSBOARD_DOMAIN.com;

	if ($scheme != "https") {
	return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
	} # managed by Certbot
	}

	server {

	// PhantomJS script to reboot a Huawei B315 modem
	//
	// Author: Jonathan Hoskin / 2017-09-02
	// Twitter: @jhossnz
	// Github: https://github.com/jonathanhoskin
	//
	// Requires PhantomJS ~ 2.1.1
	//
	// Enter your own modem details here
	var username = 'admin';