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DropboxMount turns your Dropbox into a live, on-demand drive instead of a sync folder.

DropboxMount turns your Dropbox into a live, on-demand drive instead of a sync folder. Instead of duplicating gigabytes of files onto your computer, it creates a special mount point that behaves like a network filesystem. Your Dropbox directory appears instantly, with all files and folders visible, but the contents are only downloaded when you open them. Saving changes writes them straight back to the cloud. This means you can browse your entire Dropbox without using up local disk space, and the experience feels closer to an NFS or WebDAV share than the heavyweight Dropbox desktop client. How to Set Up DropboxMount on Linux  This method uses FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) to mount Dropbox as if it were a local drive. The tool we use is rclone, which supports Dropbox natively.  1. Install rclone sudo apt update sudo apt install rclone 2. Configure Dropbox in rclone rclone config - Choose **n** for a new remote. - Name it something like `dropboxmount`. - Select `Dropbox` from t...
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make ubuntu dock (dashboard) behave like macos dock

 #!/usr/bin/env bash set -e # Install real Dash to Dock sudo apt update sudo apt install -y gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-dock # Disable Ubuntu Dock, enable Dash to Dock gnome-extensions disable ubuntu-dock@ubuntu.com || true gnome-extensions enable dash-to-dock@micxgx.gmail.com # Settings: tooltips on, mac-like layout, auto-resize icons gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock hide-tooltip false gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock dock-position 'BOTTOM' gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock autohide false gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock dash-max-icon-size 64 gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock click-action 'minimize' gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-trash true gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-mounts true gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock icon-size-fixed false echo "Done. If changes don’t appear, log out/in....
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recover a usb flash drive

  Recovering Data from a Corrupted Flash Disk on Linux 🔧 Step 1: Install the Recovery Tools Install GNU ddrescue and testdisk (which includes photorec): sudo apt-get install gddrescue testdisk 💽 Step 2: Make a Full Disk Image with ddrescue Do NOT work on the damaged flash drive directly. Instead, make a safe copy: sudo ddrescue -n /dev/sdX rescued.img rescued.log Replace /dev/sdX with your actual USB device (e.g. /dev/sdb). Use lsblk to check. This may take a while — especially if the disk has errors. 🧠 Step 3: Mount the Image (If Possible) Try mounting the recovered image: mkdir /mnt/recovered sudo mount -o loop rescued.img /mnt/recovered If that fails with a superblock error, try: sudo mount -t vfat -o loop rescued.img /mnt/recovered Still not working? The partition table might be corrupted. 🔍 Step 4: Inspect the Partition Table Run: fdisk -l rescued.img If you see absurd sizes (e.g. hundreds of GB on an 8GB drive), your partition table is toast. 🧰 Step 5: Recover Files...
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Make a docker instance serve SSL (https)

  Enabling SSL on an Apache Docker Instance Step 1 – Enable SSL inside the container docker exec -it <container_name> bash a2enmod ssl socache_shmcb Step 2 – Copy SSL certificate and key from host to container On the host, use the actual files from /etc/letsencrypt/archive/ (not the symlinks in live/ ): docker cp /etc/letsencrypt/archive/mysite.com/fullchain30.pem <container_name>:/etc/ssl/certs/mysite.crt docker cp /etc/letsencrypt/archive/mysite.com/privkey30.pem <container_name>:/etc/ssl/private/mysite.key Step 3 – Edit Apache vhost to use SSL Inside the container: vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf Replace content with: <VirtualHost *:80> SSLEngine on ServerName www.mysite.com ServerAlias mysite.com SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/mysite.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/mysite.key DocumentRoot /var/www/html/dockerhtml/ DirectoryIndex index.html index.php </VirtualHost> Step 4 – A...
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give ubuntu mac keystrokes

Add this to your .bashrc at least for one login, especially as root so it installs the packages # install dependencies sudo apt-get install -y dbus-x11 // required for below sudo apt install gnome-sushi // file preview with spacebar # disable capslock and insert setxkbmap -option caps:none // I hate capslock xmodmap -e "keycode 118 = NoSymbol"   # Insert key (usually keycode 118) disabled # enable command q, command h, command m and command-tab gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings close "['<Control>q', '<Super>q']" gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings minimize "['<Control>h', '<Super>h']" gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings minimize "['<Control>h', '<Super>h', '<Control>m', '<Super>m']" gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-applications "['<Super>Tab', '<Control...
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Suspicious behaviour: Script requesting root password on login to X11 on Ubuntu with Dropbox installed

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  Dropbox Executing Suspicious Root Script in /tmp After a recent system update, I began seeing a sudo prompt at login asking for permission to run a mysterious shell script from  /tmp . The prompt looked like this: Screenshot from 2025-07-23 06-05-39.png It referred to a temporary file,  /tmp/tmp8peqse64 , which no longer existed by the time I checked. I managed to capture the content of a similar script later: #!/bin/bash chown -h -R 1000 "/home/john/Dropbox" chmod -R u+rwX "/home/john/Dropbox" This script forcibly resets ownership and permissions on the Dropbox folder. It executes with root privileges and deletes itself after running — a classic signature of a transient payload. Journal Evidence I captured journal output showing the script was run immediately after Dropbox launched: IMG_3B4C8212-2B88-40BC-9C19-4E0E569DB0E1.jpeg Community Reports Searching online, I found other users reporting the same issue. For example,  this Ask Ubuntu thread  describes Dro...
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script to create an EFI partition on a target bootdrive if none exists

After rsyncing your OS to the external drive, run this to create a boot partition. You MUST copy the OS first. #!/bin/bash # Ensure script is run as root if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then   echo "Please run this script as root (e.g. via sudo)."   exit 1 fi # Load USB device detection source /scripts/find_usb.sh || {   echo "Failed to load /scripts/find_usb.sh"   exit 1 } mountpoint="/media/$(logname)/$usb_uuid" efi_partition="${usb_disk}2" echo "This will FORMAT and INSTALL EFI SYSTEM PARTITION on $efi_partition" echo df -h | grep "$usb_disk" || echo "Warning: device not mounted yet." echo read -rp "Continue with formatting and EFI install on $efi_partition? (y/n): " confirm if [[ "$confirm" != "y" ]]; then   echo "Aborted."   exit 1 fi # Create EFI partition if it doesn't exist if ! lsblk "$efi_partition" &>/dev/null; then   echo "Creating EFI p...
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