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Random set of notes and links that have helped me in the saga to get Ubuntu 22.04 up and running on my 2017 MacBook Pro These notes are mainly for myself in the event that I have to do this again some day. But if you find them helpful, that's great.

Important update

Unfortunately the MacBookPro that I bought second hand turned out to be a dud with some serious hardware flaws that didn't show up until a couple of months after I'd bought it.

I've since purhcased another laptop so I'm not going to be able to maintain this GIST.

I'll leave it here for now in case others want to contribute updates, or clone it. If you feel it's out of date or misleading or a waste of time, let me know in the comments and I'll remove it.

Summary

Random set of notes and links that have helped me in the saga to get Ubuntu 22.04 up and running on my 2017 MacBook Pro These notes are mainly for myself in the event that I have to do this again some day. But if you find them helpful, that's great.

Important update

Unfortunately the MacBookPro that I bought second hand turned out to be a dud with some serious hardware flaws that didn't show up until a couple of months after I'd bought it.

I've since purhcased another laptop so I'm not going to be able to maintain this GIST.

I'll leave it here for now in case others want to contribute updates, or clone it. If you feel it's out of date or misleading or a waste of time, let me know in the comments and I'll remove it.

As this is not an official way of installing Arc, if you encounter any issues do NOT report them to the developers, they did not intend for people to be running Arc on Windows 10.

This guide is a bit more manual since I wanted to respect the developers' wishes and not directly link any downloads to the beta of Arc.

I don't know how this will work with updates, you may just need to redo the process to update it, but I'm not sure

Install this font: https://aka.ms/SegoeFluentIcons (this fixes the icons since Windows 10 doesn't have this font installed by default)
Download the Arc appinstaller and open it in notepad/some other text editor
Copy everything inside and paste it into this website: https://codebeautify.org/xmlviewer (this is optional, but it makes reading and copying from the file easier)
Find the mainpackage @Uri, it should end in Arc.x64.msix, and open that in a new tab. It should download that msix file.

Best VTuber software

This is a list of the most commonly used and relevant vtubing software. The "best" will always be subjective and depend on your specific requirements. Overall, the information in this list is as accurate as I could figure it out, but there might be errors or some details might become out of date. If you find anything that needs to be corrected, please let me know. You can also note it in a comment.

Additional explanations:

iPhone means that an iPhone is basically required
iFacialMocap support means that tracking data can be received from the iFacialMocap iPhone app
VMC protocol means that the application can send and/or receive tracking data from other VMC protocol capable applications, allowing the combination of multiple tracking methods (e.g. VSeeFace receiving VR tracking from Virtual Motion Capture and iPhone/ARKit face tracking from Waidayo)
Tobii means that the Tobii eye tracker is supported

Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. Clean code can be read and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. With understandability comes readability, changeability, extensibility and maintainability.

General rules

Follow standard conventions.
Keep it simple stupid. Simpler is always better. Reduce complexity as much as possible.
Boy scout rule. Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.
Always find root cause. Always look for the root cause of a problem.

Design rules

Flutter

A quick cheatsheet of useful snippet for Flutter

Widget

A widget is the basic type of controller in Flutter Material. There are two type of basic Widget we can extend our classes: StatefulWidget or StatelessWidget.

Stateful

StatefulWidget are all the widget that interally have a dynamic value that can change during usage. It can receive an input value in the constructor or reference to functions. You need to create two classes like:

	/********************************************************************************************************************
	Countdown.js is a simple script to add a countdown timer
	for your website. Currently it can only do full minutes
	and partial minutes aren't supported. This script is a fork of http://jsfiddle.net/HRrYG/ with some
	added extensions. Since the original code that I forked was released under Creative Commons by SA license,
	I have to release this code under the same license. You can view a live demo of this code at http://jsfiddle.net/JmrQE/2/.
	********************************************************************************************************************/
	function countdown(minutes) {
	var seconds = 60;
	var mins = minutes

	# Customize BASH PS1 prompt to show current GIT repository and branch.
	# by Mike Stewart - http://MediaDoneRight.com

	# SETUP CONSTANTS
	# Bunch-o-predefined colors. Makes reading code easier than escape sequences.
	# I don't remember where I found this. o_O

	# Reset
	Color_Off="\[\033[0m\]" # Text Reset

	package com.example.popupsample

	import android.os.Bundle
	import androidx.activity.ComponentActivity
	import androidx.activity.compose.setContent
	import androidx.compose.animation.core.MutableTransitionState
	import androidx.compose.animation.core.animateFloat
	import androidx.compose.animation.core.tween
	import androidx.compose.animation.core.updateTransition
	import androidx.compose.foundation.background

	package com.your.package

	import android.app.Dialog
	import android.os.Bundle
	import com.your.package.R
	import com.google.android.material.bottomsheet.BottomSheetDialog
	import com.google.android.material.bottomsheet.BottomSheetDialogFragment

	/**
	* BottomSheetDialog fragment that uses a custom