A question that sometimes comes up on the forums about Ansible is how to cut down on its verbose output, especially how to suppress output for skipped tasks. One solution to this problem is to use tags instead of when. Tags allow you to bypass a task completely, as if it weren’t even in the …
Ubuntu When scripting VM or container images, it’s easy to inadvertently rm -rf /, so it’s desirable to mount host drives read only. It’s also nice to have a static IP for accessing your machine. The default WSL2 configuration uses a dynamic IP. It was actually relatively easy, but it did take me a day …
Overview Switching to the Fish shell when you have a bunch of existing Bash scripts can be quite a challenge due incompatibilities with functions and the inability to source scripts from another language. There is at least one plugin which attempts to solve some of these problems, but I have not looked at it. Instead …
These are some additional KDE customizations that you can set before first login. I figured out how to change these settings by making changes through the GUI and studying the configuration files. Newer versions of KDE may not use the same configurations. If you do this before first login, you will need to create the …
Setting the keyboard layout on Linux/X11 has always been a bit of a mystery to me. To make matters worse, I’m using Vagrant to frequently spin up a new VM; the extra step of system restart or log out so that changes can take effect is very unwelcome. When troubleshooting initialization and configuration issues, it’s …