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More of my guides: Debloating LDPlayer - Debloating Nox (Updated)

Edit 22/8/2021: I have updated MEmu and it seems like it reinstalls the apps and re-enables the services. Repeat steps 5, 7, 8, and 9 if you update MEmu.

Debloating MEmu

In my experience, Nox can be quite slow and choppy, and looks like I'm not the only person with this problem. A lot of people say that MEmu performs better than Nox, and I could agree with that. I have no chopping issues with it so far. But like Nox, there are kinda shady stuff going on.

Other gists & tricks: http://caseywatts.com/gists-and-tricks

Remove Facebook Messenger's "New! Messenger App for Windows" Banner

Bookmarklet

Save this bookmarklet. Right-click on boomarks toolbar Add Page...
- Name: Remove Messenger Banner (or whatever you like)
- URL: (paste in the bookmarklet.js contents below)
Each time you open messenger.com, click the bookmarklet and that pesky banner will be gone.

Electron is tricky to get set up on Windows Subsystem for Linux, but it can work!

Four things needed overall:

you need WSL2, not WSL1
you need node, of course, and that part isn't so bad
you need to apt install several dependencies
you need an X Server so it can display the electron GUI over in Windows-land

Setup instructions, in order:

short url: caseywatts.com/selfpublish

my book is out! an applied psychology / self-help book targeted at developers: Debugging Your Brain

Markdown --> PDF (as a booklet!)

Markdown --> EPUB and MOBI

I learned how to open a module in a Node REPL thanks to this StackOverflow post

How to use Faker in a Node.js REPL

npm install --save-dev "@faker-js/faker
- = install Faker to your repository
- (I made an empty project folder because idk how to find -g global ones in node)
node --experimental-repl-await
- = open the Node REPL with the experimental await feature
let { faker } = await import('@faker-js/faker')

	javascript:(function(){
	const title = document.querySelectorAll("h1.ytd-watch-metadata")[0].innerText;
	const url = window.location.href;
	window.prompt("Here's your markdown link!",`[${title}](${url})`);
	})();

	javascript: (function () {
	const tootContents = encodeURIComponent(
	document
	.getElementsByClassName("detailed-status")[0]
	.getElementsByClassName("status__content__text")[0].innerText
	);
	const twitterLink = `https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=${tootContents}`;
	window.location.href = twitterLink;
	})();

	a = `10
	13
	10
	9
	14
	10`
	b = a.split("\n")
	c = b.map(a => Number(a))
	d = c.sort((a, b) => b-a)

	// 1. Navigate to the Members View
	// Enter slack in the browser. https://{insert your team name here}.slack.com/messages/
	// Click on the channel you want.
	// Click the information icon.
	// Expand the members dropdown.
	// Click "See All Members"

	// 2. Run JS Code To Start
	// Copy-paste this whole thing

	<p>Hello

	<script>
	var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
	xhr.open('GET', '/stream');
	xhr.seenBytes = 0;

	xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
	console.log("state change.. state: "+ xhr.readyState);