EmulationStation is a graphical and themeable emulator front-end created by Aloshi around 2012. Their original work has been the foundation for the UX of many of our favorite gaming focused projects over the last decade and this document aims to capture a small bit of that history. If you see any errors please let me know in the comments below and I will gladly update this document.

• Aloshi's first public commit: https://github.com/Aloshi/EmulationStation/commit/c0e9683f4537fd3e7fea69ec01ba88c1d3039408
• Retropie's first Readme change (approximate moment when their fork occured): https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/commit/3d215a1f2f83e0a45f9fa08000584e46ae9a5d60
• Recalbox's first Readme change (approximate moment when their fork occured): https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-emulationstation/commit/b5c99454f6f3ea9f14b54d30d7700153f1205694
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If you are like many (most?) of us, you have encountered Rails Credentials/Secrets and secret_key_base and may have been left a bit (or more) confused.

This post is an attempt to remove some of that confusion by

These are NOT product / license keys that are valid for Windows activation.
These keys only select the edition of Windows to install during setup, but they do not activate or license the installation.

• Windows 11
• RTM Generic Keys

Specifically from Rakuten TV (live.tv.rakuten.co.jp)

FMI: https://cdm-project.com/How-To/ & https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/y30ffr/

1. Install Tampermonkey: https://www.tampermonkey.net/
2. Install yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#installation

2 USB drives > 2GB

1. Grab the latest Ubuntu Desktop iso image

tl;dr: If you want to just know the method, skip to How to section

Clangd is a state-of-the-art C/C++ LSP that can be used in every popular text editors like Neovim, Emacs or VS Code. Even CLion uses clangd under the hood. Unfortunately, clangd requires compile_commands.json to work, and the easiest way to painlessly generate it is to use CMake.

For simple projects you can try to use Bear - it will capture compile commands and generate compile_commands.json. Although I could never make it work in big projects with custom or complicated build systems.

But what if I tell you you can quickly hack your way around that, and generate compile_commands.json for any project, no matter how compilcated? I have used that way at work for years, originaly because I used CLion which supported only CMake projects - but now I use that method succesfully with clangd and Neovim.

Mac OS X

sudo security add-trusted-cert -d -r trustRoot -k /Library/Keychains/System.keychain ~/new-root-certificate.crt
sudo security delete-certificate -c "<name of existing certificate>"

Windows

certutil -addstore -f "ROOT" new-root-certificate.crt