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How to create a bootable Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 installer USB on macOS

Run in Terminal:

brew install wimlib - run, if wimlib is not installed yet (required for splitting large files)
To identify target USB device, run: diskutil list
Format USB drive: diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS "$WIN_USB_NAME" MBR /dev/$DISK where $WIN_USB_NAME is a new volume name (e.g. WIN) and $DISK is a target disk identificator (e.g. disk5). Alternatively, you can try GTP partititon style instead of MBR (recommended for UEFI = newer Windows distributions)
To mount Windows installer image, run: hdiutil mount ~/Desktop/$WIN_INSTALLER_IMAGE.iso where $WIN_INSTALLER_IMAGE is installer image name.
Copy all files to the USB drive, beside the "install" file (if it's over 4GB size): rsync -vha --exclude=sources/install.$EXT /Volumes/$WIN_INSTALLER_NAME/ /Volumes/$WIN_USB_NAME where $EXT is wim or esd, $WIN_INSTALLER_NAME is the mounted Windows installer volume name and $WIN_USB_NAME is target disk name.

Introduction

This works to install OpenGApps into the Android Emulator

Features:

uses opengapps installer script (that we patch slightly)
linux only because we mount the ext2/4 disk images to modify them. Could be adapted for macos if you use hdiutil instead of kpartx and have installed tools to mount ext2/4 filesystems on macos
root permissions mandatory to mount disk images and enter chroot
removes verity/verified-boot from the virtual device (so that the AVD can boot, otherwise it would not boot because we didn't update the dm_params)

Oh my zsh.

Install ZSH.

sudo apt install zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh

Install Oh my ZSH.

Here is the best setup (I think so :D) for K-series Keychron keyboards on Linux.

Note: many newer Keychron keyboards use QMK as firmware and most tips here do not apply to them. Maybe the ones related to Bluetooth can be useful, but everything related to Apple's keyboard module (hid_apple) on Linux, won't work. As far as I know, all QMK-based boards use the hid_generic module instead. Examples of QMK-based boards are: Q, Q-Pro, V, K-Pro, etc.

Most of these commands have been tested on Ubuntu 20.04 and should also work on most Debian-based distributions. If a command happens not to work for you, take a look in the comment section.

Make Fn + F-keys work (NOT FOR QMK-BASED BOARDS)

Older Keychron keyboards (those not based on QMK) use the hid_apple driver on Linux, even in the Windows/Android mode, both in Bluetooth and Wired modes.

Install nginx (Homebrew)

brew install nginx

Configuration file for nginx will be at /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Web apps can be stored at /usr/local/var/www

Commands

Start:

IMPORTANT

See the following links for further updates to Github Desktop for Ubuntu. These are official instructions. (also mentioned by fetwar on Nov 3, 2023)

For the sake of "maintaining the tradition" here is the updated version.

	MTK platform partition meaning

	#Pre-loader
	Pre-loader image
	Handles all the download and secure boot procedure

	#DSP_BL
	DSP Boot Loader
	#MBR、EBR1、EBR2
	Ext4 file system partition index table

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	required RefreshTokenRepository refreshTokenRepository,
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	// Full article: https://swiftui-lab.com/scrollview-pull-to-refresh/

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