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Migrate Home Assistant to a Virtual Machine

Home Assistant is awesome and totally deserves to be a primary citizen on my bare-metal PC to enjoy all the resources and a 500G SSD exclusively for itself. Then comes my wife and says our Google storage quota is almost maxed out. She obviously has a ring 0 privilege and got me interrupted for a couple of days to squeeze my dear home automation to a Linux VM.
Author: Artem Kovalov
Make Alt, Super, Ctrl, and Shift behave in Linux
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Tweak XKB to make all Meta keys available in Emacs

Normal humans do not need extra keys from their keyboard. Hard stop. Humans might not even need fingers soon because we can voice chat with AI, right? I wrote this for remaining Emacs nerds among us who apparently do need some finger cramps every once in a while. I like to push my buttons, and I like them to behave!
Author: Artem Kovalov