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Where our paths cross.
Writing, contributions and points of connection. Things I do on my own, and things that mean more when shared with others.
01 / COMMUNITY
Linux-User.gr
Conversations, technical notes and community, as SomniusX.
My profile and topics ↗Five of my most popular topics
Μεγα-νήμα για Ελληνικά σε LinuxOn Linux-User.gr ↗Οδηγοί Εγκατάστασης Διανομών MEGATHREADOn Linux-User.gr ↗Πως έφτιαξα το ThinkPad T480 μου ως πλήρως declarative NixOS σύστημαOn Linux-User.gr ↗Libreboot (Coreboot) Οδηγός Flashing σε Lenovo ThinkPad T480 στα Ελληνικά!On Linux-User.gr ↗Πληκτρολόγια, ναι..On Linux-User.gr ↗
02 / OPEN SOURCE
Omarchy
Small plugins I built for my own workflow and shared with the community.
On the marketplace ↗My projects
Keyboard Layout for OmarchyA keyboard-layout indicator and switcher for the Omarchy bar: up to four layouts with variants, synced switching across every keyboard, and safe edits of input.lua with backups and restore. →Messaging for OmarchySlack, Discord, Telegram and WhatsApp Web in dedicated windows from the bar. →Password Store for OmarchyA dedicated window for your web vault, without the plugin managing your passwords. →Wallpaper Rotate for OmarchyScheduled wallpaper rotation from your own folders, controlled from the bar. →Windows VM for OmarchyA plugin for the Omarchy bar: Windows VM status, connecting without a password, restart and shutdown, RDP that reconnects by itself, and live CPU, memory, disk and network figures gathered only while the panel is open. →
03 / GITHUB
GitHub
Repositories, contributions and what I publish as Somnius.
github.com/Somnius ↗Selected public repositories
virt-spinnerTest-isolation and VM-spinning script →VoxTyperOffline dictation for Arch/Hyprland & Nobara–Fedora KDE (Wayland) →shadowrealms-aiAI-powered tabletop RPG platform with local LLM integration — my biggest project →Claudius-BootstrapperRun custom models in Claude Code with local LM Studio models →sticky-board-exportA Sticky Studio board as an Obsidian vault, Canvas and PDF, without touching the board →EucWorldPebblePebble watchapp for EUCs — data on your wrist →Omarchy on Libreboot/CorebootUpstream contribution for Libreboot/Coreboot support →
Contributions to other projects
dwm-titusPatches for Chris Titus's desktop and skills in titus-ai →nemaPatches for Thanos Apollo's XMPP messenger for Android →Emojis & Nerd Fonts for OmarchyRecents, Alt+number hotkeys and hints, in 1.2.1 →Meeting RecorderA silence gate for a noisy mic, in 1.6.0, and a fix for made-up lines on a quiet mic, open →eucWatchFixes for enaon's electric unicycle dash on smartwatches →
04 / HACKINTOSH
InsanelyMac & tonymacx86
Old Hackintosh threads on InsanelyMac and tonymacx86, from the Mac / iOS chapter. Historical archive, not current advice.
Workaround / app for brightness control2015 InsanelyMac note on laptop panel brightness via the Brightness Slider Mac App Store app after DSDT and kext attempts failed. Not software the author shipped. →SONY VAIO F Series (PCG-81312M)Opening post SomniusX started on tonymacx86 on 13 August 2015 asking whether a SONY VAIO F Series PCG-81312M could run OS X 10.10. →iPhone, the Greek-language threadOpening post SomniusX started on InsanelyMac on 29 January 2010 for Greek-language talk about the iPhone, jailbreak, and apps. →
05 / PERSONAL ARCHIVE
Lefteros.com
Personal writing and pieces of the former company chapter.
VaultInk: my Obsidian notes on a pocket e-readerVaultInk is new free firmware for the Xteink X4 Pro: books as in CrossPoint Reader, plus Obsidian vaults you can read, search and follow links in, in Greek and English. Why I started it, what works on day one, and what comes next. →Windows 10 at the office: this year the extension costs doubleWindows 10 support ended on 14 October 2025, and the only official way to keep getting security updates is Microsoft's ESU program, which starts at 61 dollars per PC and doubles every year. What it costs an office with 10 PCs, the Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 exception that is covered until 2029, the risk of bypassing the TPM check for Windows 11, and the list worth making before you pay. →Crackling audio in Renoise on Omarchy: the realtime fix, without rtkitRenoise crackled and popped on Omarchy because nothing on the system had realtime scheduling; even PipeWire was running its audio threads as normal processes. The fix is realtime-privileges plus the realtime group, a full reboot (a logout is not enough when lingering is on), and JACK at 48 kHz in Renoise. Installing rtkit on this setup got every ALSA client killed, so don't. →PHP2Shell: if your site runs on WordPress, update PHP, not the pluginsTwo critical PHP bugs, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, rated 9.2 out of 10, were fixed on 21 October after the details leaked a day early, and attack attempts started within hours. Updating WordPress or its plugins does not cover them; only the PHP version does. What happened, who is affected, how to check your own site in five minutes, plus the nginx fixes of 14 October and the npm worm of this month. →ShadowRealms AI 0.29 to 0.31: the Storyteller remembersThree releases in two days. The AI Storyteller now reads the chronicle so far before every reply, so it remembers what happened three nights ago; when an admin kills a character, the local model writes its death from the story, in the chronicle’s language; and a new admin page does the killing, the reviving and keeps the deaths log, with the fallen shown on the profile and the sheet. Plus a system specification for the whole app. →ShadowRealms AI 0.23 to 0.28: the chronicle so farSix releases in a day. The local model writes your chronicle up as minutes, night by night, with every event pointing back to its messages; the minutes export as Markdown or PDF, in the character sheet’s look or a horror look; the Storyteller edits and translates them; and anyone who returns after half a day gets a “Previously on…”. Plus cloud voices, opt-in. →A whole board, out of the browserA new small tool: sticky-board-export takes a Sticky Studio board and turns it into an Obsidian vault, an Obsidian Canvas and a PDF. It reads only a saved copy of the board's data and never touches the board. →ShadowRealms AI 0.16 to 0.22: the chat gets a voiceSeven releases in one night, all about voice: hear the chat read aloud in English or Greek, with a voice for each character’s gender and a narrator per chronicle, record your lines up to three minutes and check the transcript before you send, and hear and read everything in your own language. All of it runs on my own server. →ShadowRealms AI 0.15: ghouls, in V5 and in ClassicShadowRealms AI 0.15.0 brings ghoul sheets for both editions: V5 retainers and player ghouls by the corebook and the Players Guide, Classic ghouls by Ghouls: Fatal Addiction with their Blood Pool, and a print version of the character sheet PDF that looks the same in every viewer. →ShadowRealms AI 0.14: V5 characters by the book and a new trailerShadowRealms AI 0.11.0 to 0.14.1 bring Forge v2: V5 character creation in the corebook's order, a rules catalog from 24 books, Guided mode, a check on the server and the sheet as a PDF. Plus a new two-and-a-half-minute trailer, in English and in Greek. →Skills for dwm-titus: sending assistants to the right filesTwo skills for Chris Titus's titus-ai, so a terminal assistant that changes or debugs dwm-titus works on the real files and stays out of the folders updates replace. Plus a proposal: Diagnose with AI when an app crashes or hangs. →Patches for nema, Thanos Apollo's XMPP app for AndroidMy friend Thanos Apollo is building nema, an XMPP messenger for Android. I send it patches by email: day separators, room names, thread markers and more. →Hidden Wi-Fi, keyboard layouts and a clock with seconds for Chris Titus's dwmSix more pull requests for dwm-titus: join a hidden Wi-Fi network from the panel, a keyboard layout pill ported from my Omarchy plugin, optional seconds in the clock, clearer docs on what survives an update, and a tidier Settings > Input. →Hotkeys and hints for Omarchy's emoji pickerRecents in Emojis & Nerd Fonts for Omarchy got Alt+number hotkeys, a hint beside each glyph and two tidy columns. Three review rounds with the maintainer, and it's out in 1.2.1. →Keyboard Layout 1.2.5: ready for Omarchy’s new Caps LockOmarchy’s next release gives Caps Lock back and makes Shift+Caps Lock the Compose key. Keyboard Layout 1.2.5 makes sure a Caps Lock switch key keeps switching. →RecMeets v0.31.0: both tracks stay in stepWhy there's a new RecMeets: the original Meeting Recorder brought two fixes worth having. A stalled device no longer shifts your track against the other side, and actions can run by themselves when a transcript is done. →Kitty now follows the theme in Chris Titus's dwmA pull request for dwm-titus: kitty used to stay on Nord whatever theme you picked. Now it follows the theme, and existing installs get fixed on their own, with a backup. →CrossInk-Indic now reads Burmese, on every Xteinkv1.6.0-indic.3, and indic.4 with the spacing fix: Burmese in Noto Sans Myanmar with its own shaper, lines that break between syllables, and a Burmese menu, for the X3, X4, X4 Pro, X4 Classic and Sticky. →CrossInk-Indic now reads 13 Indic languages, on every Xteinkv1.6.0-indic.2: Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Bengali, Assamese, Punjabi, Gujarati, Odia, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Sinhala, each with its script and its menu built into the firmware, for the X3, X4, X4 Pro, X4 Classic and Sticky. →Hindi has arrived in CrossInk, on every Xteink readerCrossInk-Indic: Hindi books and a Hindi menu on the X3, X4, X4 Pro, X4 Classic and Sticky, with the Devanagari fonts and shaping built into the firmware. Free, open, and public as of today. →Tooltips are back on the Omarchy barNew versions of five of my Omarchy plugins: tooltips show again on 4.0.4, tested one by one, and all of them are ready for Qt 6.12. →Recents for Omarchy's emoji pickerA pull request for Emojis & Nerd Fonts for Omarchy: a new Recents tab with what you last typed or copied, emojis, Nerd Font glyphs and kaomoji, with search and two columns. →ShadowRealms AI 0.10: V5, Greek, new foundations and a trailerShadowRealms AI's biggest update: Classic and V5 rules, the interface and the Storyteller in Greek, a gothic redesign with 97 glyphs, a Vite rebuild, and a two-minute trailer in two languages. →Three fixes for eucWatch, from Igor's fork to the projecteucWatch puts your electric unicycle's dash on a cheap smartwatch. A fork of it held fixes that never made it back. Today three of them went to enaon, and all three were merged the same evening. →A model of my own on Hugging Face: RecMeets' Layasomniusx/recmeets-laya-words finds which words of a transcript were misheard, in Greek and English. Trained on my own computer, open for anyone who needs it. →Greek has arrived in CrossInkGreek letters, proper hyphenation and a Greek menu for the open firmware of Xteink e-readers, built in under 24 hours. A test build for the X4 Pro. →Windows VM for Omarchy: Windows on the barA new Omarchy plugin, already at 1.1.0: Windows VM status on the bar, connecting without a password, RDP that reconnects by itself, restart and shutdown, and live figures that cost nothing while you are not looking. →Keyboard Layout for Omarchy 1.2.2: four layouts and backupsA new release of the Keyboard Layout plugin for Omarchy: up to four layouts with variants, every keyboard switching together, precise input.lua edits and backups with restore. →Coming soon: RecMeetsI am building RecMeets — private meeting recording with local transcription for Linux and Windows. It is in the works and will be released soon. →The l_ mark beside lefteros_Today the square l_ mark sits to the left of lefteros_ in the header. Same ink, same paper, same green bar. →ShadowRealms AI on Lefteros.comToday I put ShadowRealms AI on Lefteros.com — a local narrator for tabletop RPGs. The project page keeps 31 May 2026, the snapshot of v0.8.0. →Seasonal styles on Lefteros.comLefteros.com gains subtle seasonal styles, controlled from the editor with a Greek-calendar automatic mode and respect for privacy and reduced motion. →The old logo, a new chapterThe LEFTEROS company identity moves into the archive as this website becomes my personal home for code, projects and notes. →The 2022 company privacy policy — historical archiveAn English rendering of the former company privacy policy, retained as historical material. It does not govern the current personal website. →EucWorldPebble: your electric unicycle on a Pebble watchYour unicycle's speed, battery, temperature and alarms on your wrist: the Pebble watchapp that talks to EUC World, in two versions and for every Pebble model. →The first 1/10-scale Ancient Greece map in Minecraft and the SKAI news segmentOn 13 February 2016 the 1/10-scale Ancient Greece map that had been built in Minecraft reached the SKAI prime-time news bulletin. →The OnePlus Greece community — invites, the One, and a Greek homeIn April 2015 oneplusgreece.com was the Greek home for people waiting on an invite for the OnePlus One: guides, news, Tapatalk on the phone, and a community sharing codes when the handset was not on shop shelves. →GameAthlon 2013, the RFS Dev Team and the 8,000-player recordIn June 2013 the RFS Dev Team presented a fully working custom Minecraft server at the HAEC GameAthlon, keeping over 8,000 players connected at the same time — a record for that era. →The RFS Dev Team website — the digital home of the Greek Minecraft communityIn 2013 I built the entire RFS Dev Team website to serve the Minecraft community of Greece, Europe and the whole world — and its archive still lives in the Wayback Machine. →
All articles →06 / ARCHIVE
HellasProject
A Greek Mac and iOS site, 2009–2014. A historical archive, not current services. Section and folder pages are listed here, newest first; dated posts stay in the article archive.
Projects infoSection for HellasProject.com projects and member work. →Greek translation of Tweetie 1.2.4About 96% Greek localization of Tweetie 1.2.4 for Mac. →Greek localization of VisualHub 1.34aAbout 99% Greek localization of VisualHub 1.34a for Mac. →Cydia sourceAdd repo.hellasproject.com in Cydia for Greek logos, tweaks, and apps. Use at your own risk. →Mac – Address Book +30A small Mac helper that prefixes Greek Address Book numbers with +30. →iPhone – iProxyCydia app: iProxy, a SOCKS5 proxy so you can share 3G without official tethering. →iPhone – RythmosWRRythmosWR 1.0.1, a free App Store web-radio app for Aptou’s internet station. →Clone your systemHard guide: byte-for-byte disk clone with dd and gzip from Linux or an OS X installer, then restore. →GnotyEarly Xcode experiment: a Gmail notifier for the Mac menu bar, backed by Python IMAP. →iPhone – GritterGritter 1.51.07, a Greek Twitter client for iPhone, with timelines, DMs, and a dark theme. →iPhone – iTroktikoNews reader for Troktiko on iPhone, later overtaken when that site shut down. →iPhone – iTromaktikoiTromaktiko 1.0.3, a 0.79 EUR App Store news reader for tro-ma-ktiko.blogspot.com. →WinBox on MacBuild a standalone MikroTik WinBox.app on Intel Macs with WineBottler, without MacPorts. →OS X infoNotes and download buckets for experimental Mac OS X on Intel-compatible PCs. →Greek CydiaHow to run Saurik’s Cydia in Greek, via the HellasProject repo and Sepsis’s files. →Icons and extrasIcons and extras useful for the HellasProject Cydia source. →Third-party Mac apps in GreekIndex of Mac apps localized into Greek by HellasProject and by Evripidis of Macedonas.gr. →ToolsHackintosh tools (kext utilities, DSDT helpers, EFI string editors). You take the risk. →Greek CydiaCydia in Greek. More on the localization/jailbreak/cydia page. →Cydia without adsStrip the very noisy ads from Cydia.app. →MMS for iPhone 2GEnable MMS on iPhone 2G. Later pulled after problem reports. →SB AdBlock ToggleSBSettings toggle for AdBlock. →6 Icon DockSix icons in the iPhone Dock. →7 Icon DockSeven icons in the iPhone Dock. →8 Icon DockEight icons in the iPhone Dock. →Battery percentageShow battery percentage. Firmware 3.0 and later only. →Black DialerTurns the Phone dialer and in-call UI dark. →Black iPhone ThemeAll-black WinterBoard theme covering the iPhone UI. →Cyprus carrier logosCyprus carrier logos for CytaMobile and MTN. →Cycorder without adsHigh-quality video recording on iPhone 2G/3G, with ads stripped. →Fix – Cannot change wallpaperFor when iOS will not let you change the wallpaper. →Calibri fontCalibri as an alternative to Helvetica on a jailbroken iPhone. →DejaVu fontWell-known but dated DejaVu font as an alternative to Helvetica. →Greek carrier logosGreek mobile carrier logos for a jailbroken iPhone status bar. →Mac ThemeWinterBoard theme that makes the iPhone look more like a Mac. →Greek language for firmware 2.xFull Greek UI language that Apple did not ship in iPhone OS 2.x. →No ads (hosts)Points known ad hosts at loopback. Can break SBSettings. →Popup BlockerBlock annoying Safari pop-ups on a jailbroken iPhone. →VLC for iPhoneThe well-known media player, for a jailbroken iPhone. →
Dated posts in the article archive →