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For some reason, it is surprisingly hard to create a bootable Windows USB using macOS. These are my steps for doing so, which have worked for me in macOS Monterey (12.6.1) for Windows 10 and 11. After following these steps, you should have a bootable Windows USB drive.

1. Download a Windows disc image (i.e. ISO file)

You can download Windows 10 or Windows 11 directly from Microsoft.

2. Identify your USB drive

After plugging the drive to your machine, identify the name of the USB device using diskutil list, which should return an output like the one below. In my case, the correct disk name is disk2.

Details on the iOS "PosterBoard" System, How "Posters" work, and the Basics of Messing With It

(Mainly written by Dulark and Dootskyre with some additional help by MWRevamped)

Overview

What is PosterBoard?

Summary

Random set of notes and links that have helped me in the saga to get Ubuntu 22.04 up and running on my 2017 MacBook Pro These notes are mainly for myself in the event that I have to do this again some day. But if you find them helpful, that's great.

Important update

Unfortunately the MacBookPro that I bought second hand turned out to be a dud with some serious hardware flaws that didn't show up until a couple of months after I'd bought it.

I've since purhcased another laptop so I'm not going to be able to maintain this GIST.

I'll leave it here for now in case others want to contribute updates, or clone it. If you feel it's out of date or misleading or a waste of time, let me know in the comments and I'll remove it.

CPU Usage :

(1 - avg(irate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode="idle"}[10m])) by (instance)) * 100

Memory Usage :

100 * (1 - ((avg_over_time(node_memory_MemFree_bytes[10m]) + avg_over_time(node_memory_Cached_bytes[10m]) + avg_over_time(node_memory_Buffers_bytes[10m])) / avg_over_time(node_memory_MemTotal_bytes[10m])))

Bruce's iOS Shortcut Catalog

Hello and welcome to my Shortcuts Catalog!

This is a public resource designed to help people get started with Siri Shortcuts and the Shortcuts app.

It’s made up of the Shortcuts Library, a collection of over 125+ shortcuts grouped into folders, and the Action Directory, a documentation of 125+ of the actions in the Shortcuts app used to build shortcuts.

Enjoy!

	CREATE EXTENSION ltree;

	CREATE TABLE test (path ltree);


	-- Top
	-- / \| \
	-- Science Hobbies Collections
	-- / \| \
	-- Astronomy Amateurs_Astronomy Pictures

	import requests
	from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter, Retry


	def get_vscode_extensions(max_page=10000, page_size=100,
	include_versions=True, include_files=True, include_category_and_tags=True, include_shared_accounts=True, include_version_properties=True,
	exclude_non_validated=False, include_installation_targets=True, include_asset_uri=True, include_statistics=True,
	include_latest_version_only=False, unpublished=False, include_name_conflict_info=True, api_version='7.2-preview.1', session=None):
	if not session:
	session = requests.session()

	#
	# Copyright (c) nexB Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
	# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
	# See http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 for the license text.
	# See https://aboutcode.org for more information about nexB OSS projects.
	#

	from traceback import format_exc as traceback_format_exc
	import requests

	@echo off
	cmdkey.exe /list > "%TEMP%\List.txt"
	findstr.exe Target "%TEMP%\List.txt" > "%TEMP%\tokensonly.txt"
	FOR /F "tokens=1,2 delims= " %%G IN (%TEMP%\tokensonly.txt) DO cmdkey.exe /delete:%%H
	del "%TEMP%\List.txt" /s /f /q
	del "%TEMP%\tokensonly.txt" /s /f /q
	echo All done
	pause

	' Disables Vanguard from starting when you boot your computer
	Call CreateObject("Shell.Application").ShellExecute("cmd.exe", "/c ""sc config vgc start= disabled & sc config vgk start= disabled""", "", "runas")