Andy Piper andypiper

High-Performance Windows 11 KVM Guide for Fedora

This guide provides a comprehensive walkthrough for setting up a high-performance Windows 11 virtual machine on a Fedora Workstation host, with a focus on GPU passthrough and system optimization. It is intended for users with a moderately technical background.

Part 0: System Information & Prerequisites

Before starting, ensure you have the required components and gather critical information about your hardware.

Prerequisites:

Bluesky's age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it.

Bluesky has implemented age verification measures in response to regional laws that restrict access, prompting users to verify their age through Epic Games' Kids Web Services before they can access adult content.

This sucks, but thankfully there are ways to work around it.

Before diving in: I encourage you to read this entire document, including the

Install uBlock Origin and add this rule to your filters, blocking this cruft even when Copilot has been technically fully-disabled site-wide in your GitHub account options:

github.com##button[data-testid='open-in-copilot-agent-button']:upward(div[data-testid='sidebar-development-section']) /* swy: 'Code with agent mode' button in every issue */
github.com##a[href='/settings/copilot'] svg.octicon-copilot:upward(li[class*='prc-ActionList-ActionListItem'])        /* swy: 'Your Copilot' option on sidebar */

uConsole MouseKeys Setup

As the trackball on the uConsole can be tricky, i used the YXBA buttons to move the cursor for more refined movements. This is done via ydotool and ydotoold in order to work with wayland.

References

Important to know that ydotool should be built from source in order to provide relative mouse movements.

Once built and installed, ydotoold should be started as root listening to a socket file, but changing socket ownershop to a target user. I added the following to rc.local

uConsole Auto rotating battery wallpaper

To automatically change wallpaper on battery level, read the battery level from /sysclass and change the wallpaper setting using gsettings.

my $batt_file = "/sys/class/power_supply/axp20x-battery/capacity";

[...some code...]
chomp(my $current = `gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri`);
$current =~ s/^'file:\/\/\///;
$current =~ s/'$//;

uConsole GPS Setup

After some more mucking around on a desktop with GPS setup, and taking some of those experiences over to uConsole. Here are Some updated notes on getting GPS setup properly on uConsole. This also applies to Ubuntu setups. Can't comment on the correctness for other distributions, but it should be able to serve as a guide.

This has some improvement over the older method as it no longer uses gnss-share.

NOTE: i use pam_usb for authentication so it is convienient to use sudo in my scripts so it doesn't acrually prompt for a password everytime i use it. YMMV.

geoclue

For an easy understanding of how federation works between Lemmy and Mastodon (interacting with Lemmy from a Mastodon instance and vice versa), have a look at this handy table!

All tests were done using the default Mastodon UI and the default Lemmy UI.

Legend

✅ Works as expected
✳️ Works, but is missing some features
❎ Barely works, can not be used practically
❌ Does not work at all, I couldn't find a way to make it work

	import time
	import wifi
	import socketpool
	import wifi
	import mdns
	from adafruit_httpserver import (GET, JSONResponse, Request, Server)

	WIFI_SSID = "your-wifi"
	WIFI_PASSWORD = "your-password"
	POLL_INTERVAL_S = 31

	#!/bin/sh

	# dfn: df normalized, or df not noisy, or df nicely, or df new
	#
	# Whatever you want to call it, this script makes df useful again.
	# It removes read-only disks for Time Machine backups, system volumes
	# that can't be modified, unbrowsable volumes, and other stuff you don't
	# really care about.
	#
	# Instead, you get the same drives that you see on your Mac desktop in an

	#!/bin/sh
	cd /var/lib/snac
	filename=snac-$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ).tar.gz
	tar czf backups/$filename data

	# Upload to Backblaze B2
	BUCKET_ID=... # From the Backblaze Console
	ACCOUNT_ID=... # Your API Key ID
	APPLICATION_KEY=... # API Key Secret