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Laptop: Configuration Summary

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New Laptop Configuration. Summary.md

Backup

cd ~/
mkdir /tmp/keys
gpg --export-secret-keys --armor <NAME> > /tmp/keys/<NAME>.asc
gpg --symmetric /tmp/keys/<NAME>.asc
gpg --export-ownertrust > /tmp/keys/trustdb.txt 

zip -r /tmp/sshbackup ~/.ssh/
unzip -l /tmp/sshbackup.zip

Restore

mkdir /tmp/keys
cd /tmp/keys

gpg --symmetric --decrypt /tmp/keys/<NAME>.gpg
gpg —-import /tmp/keys/<NAME>.asc

rm ~/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg
gpg --import-ownertrust < /tmp/keys/trustdb.txt

gpg --symmetric --decrypt /tmp/keys/sshbackup.zip.gpg
unzip /tmp/keys/sshbackup.zip
mv /tmp/keys/.ssh/ ~/

rm -rf /tmp/keys

Steps

• OS Settings
  • Dock (Automatically hide and show the Dock)
  • Keyboard (Key Repeat = Fast, Delay Until Repeat = Short)
  • Accessibility > Zoom (Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom)
  • Date & Time > Clock (Show date + Display the time with seconds)
  • Mission Control (disable “Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use”)
  • Terminal Developer Mode (spctl developer-mode enable-terminal)
  • Wake up from sleep (sudo pmset -a standbydelay 7200)
• Firefox
  • https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/
    • Preferences
      • General > Startup (Restore previous session + Warn you when quitting the browser)
      • Search > Default Search Engine (DuckDuckGo)
      • Privacy & Security
        • Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict + Do Not Track = Always)
        • Firefox Data Collection and Use (disable all options)
      • Firefox Sync
      • Extensions
        • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-for-firefox/
        • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/
        • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
        • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/darkreader/
        • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/expressvpn/
        • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
        • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/facebook-container/
        • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/
• Homebrew
  • https://brew.sh
    • brew bundle install
• Shell
  • echo /usr/local/bin/bash | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
  • chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash
• GitHub Access
  • mkdir ~/.ssh
  • cd ~/.ssh && ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C '<your@email.com>'
  • eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
  • ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/github
    • ssh-add --apple-use-keychain ~/.ssh/github (-K looks to be deprecated).
  • pbcopy < ~/.ssh/github.pub
  • https://github.com/settings/keys
• Tools
  • https://github.com/integralist/dotfiles
    • git clone git@github.com:Integralist/dotfiles.git
    • mv ... files into ~/
• Terminal
  • https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/blob/master/INSTALL.md#macos
• Password Store
  • https://www.passwordstore.org/
    • gpg --import </path/to/private/key>
    • keyid=$(gpg --list-keys <your@email.com> | head -n 2 | tail -n 1 | cut -d ' ' -f 7)
    • pass init $keyid
    • pass git init
    • pass git remote add origin git@github.com:<private/repo>
    • pass git pull
    • gpg --edit-key $keyid (type trust)

NOTE:

Encrypt/Decrypt files…

Encrypt: gpg --encrypt -r Pass --output ~/encrypted.png.gpg ~/example.png
Decrypt: gpg --decrypt --output ~/example.png ~/encrypted.png.gpg

OTP…

Generate from QRCode image: zbarimg -q --raw example.png | pass otp insert Foo/otp/example
Usage: pass otp -c Foo/otp/example

• Vim
  • mkdir -p ~/Code/ && cd ~/Code
  • git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
  • cd vim
  • make clean distclean
  • ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-multibyte --enable-rubyinterp=yes --enable-python3interp=yes --with-python3-command=/Users/integralist/.pyenv/shims/python --enable-perlinterp=yes --enable-luainterp=yes --enable-gui=gtk2 --enable-cscope --prefix=/usr/local
  • make && make install
  • curl -sfLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim
  • :PlugInstall