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I am noting some of the books i am reading in 2025 that I found interesting

• Into the Darkness – Lothrop Stoddard
• The Chief Cultprint – Viktor Suvorov
• Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II

Clean the history and start from 0.

sudo service pihole-FTL stop && sudo rm /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.db && sudo service pihole-FTL start
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When you try to access a url that is blocked by pihole and you whitelist it, and it still doesnt work:

Then apply the blacklist change :

sudo pihole -g

Then if you try again it will work

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I started using Omarchy after listening to this interview. I am really impressed since i became more productive after the initial Hotkeys learning curve.

I think I might even be able to contribute to this project. I will keep this page here as a reference with the modifications i will be doing to the default installation

• Changing the default screen lock time
• Preventing CTRL + W to close apps by mistake
• Replace chromium with firefox
• Find out which Laptop you have: sudo dmdecode -s system-product-name
• Top command doesnt return output on ssh sessions

Fix unbootable machine:

Boot from Arch live USB:

1. Check partitions:lsblk

2. Mount your system:mount /dev/nvme0n1pX /mnt # Your root partition mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot # EFI partition

3. Chroot:arch-chroot /mnt

4. Reinstall kernel and Limine:pacman -Syy pacman -S linux linux-headers limine limine-deploy /dev/nvme0n1 # Deploy to disk (not partition)

5. Verify/fix Limine config at /boot/limine.cfg: nano /boot/limine.cfgMake sure the kernel path is correct, should look like: PROTOCOL=linux KERNEL_PATH=boot():/vmlinuz-linux

6. Exit and reboot:exit umount -R /mnt reboot

I will just list some links i am coming back to:

Bitcoin v29 and later compile instructions

Get the bitcoin white paper while running a non pruned node:

hex_btc=$(bitcoin-cli getrawtransaction 54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713 0 00000000000000ecbbff6bafb7efa2f7df05b227d5c73dca8f2635af32a2e949 | sed 's/0100000000000000/\n/g' | tail -n +2 | cut -c7-136,139-268,271-400 | tr -d '\n' | cut -c17-368600) && printf "%b" "$(echo "$hex_btc" | sed 's/../\\x&/g')" > bitcoin.pdf

Convert sat/VB to BTC/KB: 2 sat/vB = 0.00002 BTC/kB