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How to install game-porting-toolkit (aka proton for macOS)

You also might wanna just use Whisky which does this automatically

This guide works on macOS 13.4+ using Command Line Tools for XCode 15 Beta!

What is this?

In the recent WWDC, Apple announced and released the "game porting toolkit", which upon further inspection this is just a modified version of CrossOver's fork of wine which is a "compatibility layer" that allows you to run Windows applications on macOS and Linux.

@GetVladimir
GetVladimir / Force-RGB-Color-on-M1-Mac.md
Last active May 5, 2024 02:26
Force RGB Color on M1 Mac

Force RGB Color on M1 Mac

How to Force RGB Color Output instead of YPbPr on your M1 Apple Silicon Mac for an External Monitor.

This step-by-step video tutorial will guide you through the procedure of forcing RGB color output on your M1 Mac.

Force RGB Color on M1 Mac

Here is the direct link to the video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1EqH3fd0V4

The video also has Closed Captions (Subtitles) that you can enable, to make it easier to follow if needed.

@hjbotha
hjbotha / free_ports.sh
Last active May 8, 2024 14:15
Free ports 80 and 443 on Synology NAS
#! /bin/bash
# NEWLY ADDED BACKUP FUNCTIONALITY IS NOT FULLY TESTED YET, USE WITH CARE, ESPECIALLY DELETION
# Developed for DSM 6 - 7.0.1. Not tested on other versions.
# Steps to install
# Save this script in one of your shares
# Edit it according to your requirements
# Backup /usr/syno/share/nginx/ as follows:
# # cd /usr/syno/share/
# # tar cvf ~/nginx.tar nginx
@Hengjie
Hengjie / tutorial.md
Last active May 1, 2024 02:33
How to passthrough SATA drives directly on VMWare ESXI 6.5 as RDMs

How to passthrough SATA drives directly on VMWare EXSI 6.5 as RDMs

There aren't many tutorials about this, the only tutorials I've found were about passing through entire PCIe cards to VMs, or refered to old ESXI versions (below 6.5) that used a more comprehensive desktop client instead of the web app. In v6.5, the web app was introduced and the desktop client was deprecated. You used to be able to setup RDMs in the desktop client, but with the introduction of the web console, this is no longer the case. This tutorial shows you how to pass SATA HDDs to the virtual machine on VMWare ESXI 6.5. This tutorial is partially based on VMWare's own KB and the now deprecated Forza IT blog post.

A word about VMWare ESXI 6.7

There is now an option while editing your VM's settings to add a New raw disk when you click `Add ha