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 …
I ordered some books from Amazon. After a couple weeks I logged in to get a delivery status update, and it said that the package had been delivered several days earlier. The Amazon seller told me the package was delivered. So I opened a lost package inquiry with the post office. After a few days, …
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 …
If you’ve ever dealt with governments, either as an ordinary citizen or working for a government is some capacity, you probably know governments tend to place a value of zero on your time and routinely fail to communicate timely or at all. So I recently filed for Summary Ejectment in District Court against my tenant …
District Court Too Lazy to Send Out Important Notices Read More »
I was rear ended a few weeks ago. My insurance company told me I could either go through them and the insurance company of the driver-at-fault would pay them, or I could go through the other insurance company (Geico). The process by which your insurance company collects a debt owed on your behalf is known …
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 …
I sent the letter below to my state representatives after receiving a number of incorrect violation notices and a requirement that I file a California state tax return in the next few days. If I were feeling cynical, I would say that states benefit from making so many errors, which they struggle to fix. But, …
I received a letter from California telling me to file a state return for 2018 in the next two weeks. Well that’s very interesting since I’ve never lived or worked in California. I haven’t received a request to file a return in Indiana, a state I did once live and work in. I haven’t received …