Archlinux Windows Secure Boot with rEFInd

Arch Linux Windows Secure Boot sounds more complicated than it really is. If you dual-boot Windows and Arch Linux, you can keep Secure Boot enabled for Windows, keep rEFInd, use your own Linux signing key, and stop manually approving every new kernel. If you dual-boot Windows and Linux, you may have run into an annoying…

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Recompile VLC on Archlinux

For various reasons you’ll want to do that. For me it was VLC locking up when watching IPTV from a DVB>IP hardware with v3.0.21. And with v3.0.20 it would have extremely high CPU usage which went away when recompiling. Only on Archlinux. Something in their process is funky. Anyhow let’s go. First, enable optimizations for…

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archlinux: pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Upgrade only openssl to version 3 from 1.1.1 and you receive this error. sudo doesn’t work, pacman doesn’t work, what do you do? Well hopefully you have not deleted previously downloaded packages from /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ . If not, read about the Arch Linux Archive and you will need a USB drive/stick/whatever with an archiso written on…

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archlinux php.ini

Just a FYI. If you’re using archlinux and wonder why the php.ini in /etc/php/ isn’t parsed, in my case i’m using uwsgi so the php_sapi_name() returns uwsgi so i have to

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