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Bluetooth Pairing one device on Dual Boot of Windows & Linux - Stop having to Pair Devices

You may have experienced when dual booting that you need to re-pair your bluetooth devices (ie., Headphones, mouse, keyboard, etc) this usually happens because you have already paired the device with another operating system using the same bluetooth adapter when dual booting (either Linux or Windows).

Some devices cannot handle multiple pairings associated with the same MAC address (ie., bluetooth adapter). As per suggested on the ArchWiki you can fix this by re-pairing the device each time, but there's actually another solution to not do so each time you choose to use your device on a different OS.

How can we accomplish this?

Easy, just pair the device on a OS and copy the bluetooth keys generated to the other OS so our device doesn't notice the difference.

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Dependencies

numpy==1.23.2
Pillow==9.2.0
pyzbar==0.1.9
qrcode==7.3.1

Note

• Depending on your system, you might need to have zbar installed on your system to get the scripts to work.

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# Usage:
# python vidres.py path/to/input/video [path/to/output/video]

import os
import re
import shutil
import subprocess
import sys

data = subprocess.run(

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Getting started with virtualization on Linux

After doing a lot of VM-hopping, from QEMU to VirtualBox and whatnot, I finally decided to stick to VMWare Player (not sponsored btw) to use as my go to hyperviser. Granted, its paid counterpart or even its other open source counterparts might have more features to offer, but I decided to stick to ease of use and reliability. For some reason, VirtualBox just dies when KDE is run on it, and QEMU tends to pose a lot of display scaling issues sometimes. I'm not saying that VMWare is always perfect either, but it's still more usable, in my opinion. So I put together a small guide to set stuff up as easily as possible on an Arch/Arch-based machine.

Prerequisites

• Virtualization enabled in the BIOS

Note: This tutorial is focussed on Arch based distros. The steps should be the same on just about anything else; however, the name of the packages might differ.

Installation

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#!/usr/bin/python

import curses
import random
import string
from curses import wrapper

import _curses

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import os
import random
import re

import requests
from PIL import Image, UnidentifiedImageError

headers = {
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0"
}

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FFmpeg cheat sheet

A list of useful commands for the ffmpeg command line tool.

Download FFmpeg: https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

Full documentation: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html

Basic conversion

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"""
A tool to convert images into Braille art

Depends on: Pillow - Python Imaging Library
To install, do:
$ pip install Pillow

Usage: 
$ python imgToBraille.py --help
"""

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# Controls: `space` to jump

import curses
import random
from curses import wrapper


def gen_path() -> str:
    path = "_" * 50 + "".join(
        [