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Wow, some people try to make this crazy hard. Here it is from the CLI. Or as a .reg file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"AutoAdminLogon"=dword:00000001
"DefaultUserName"="user"
"DefaultPassword"="password"

This seems to be available from at least Windows 8.1 on.

I have just recently installed Samba as an Active Directory Domain Controller on my Linux system, and I'm still trying to sort out the details. I have never really gotten into Kerberos, and this is a good learning opportunity. One of the things you have to do to enable the use of Kerberos tickets for authentication for services is to add the Service Principal Names, sometimes called "service principals", to the computer's Kerberos account.

I've been playing around with creating a kind of all-in-one, "loaded for bear" Drupal 10 configuration, with a coherent set of compatible and cooperative modules. My goal is to make deployment and expansion simple regardless of your goals.

I like to play games well into their sunset years, which is great because it saves me a lot of money on GPUs. I had Fallout 4 back when it was relatively new, but having tired of my other options, I decided to see how it ran on modern Linux. As it turns out, the answer is that it runs about as well as it does on Windows, maybe even slightly better in the graphics performance department. I started out with a steam deck howto and worked the rest out from there. These instructions assume you have all of the DLC.

composer config repositories.asset-packagist composer https://asset-packagist.org
composer config --json --merge extra.installer-types '["bower-asset", "npm-asset"]'
composer config --json --merge 'extra.installer-paths.web/libraries/{$name}' '["type:bower-asset", "type:npm-asset"]'

(From https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3198245#comment-13997741)

Without getting [too] technical (and probably operating "above my pay grade") the ZFS ZIL is a place where synchronous writes are done, and you can move this to a separate zpool, which is called a SLOG. One SLOG can store the ZIL for multiple zpools. While most writes by most applications are asynchronous, some are not, and file metadata writes are synchronous. Putting the ZIL for a HDD (or even an array) on a SSD lets your zpool provide the IOPS performance of your SLOG, while also avoiding fragmentation and reducing seeks through ordered writes.

If you have a very old nvidia card, you will want to use the FOSS nvidia driver (nouveau) as it is likely the only thing that will work for you. But realistically, if you have nvidia graphics on your system, you will want to use the binary driver. This is a quick guide to that. The nvidia driver is in the non-free repo, so make sure you have that added to your sources.list. Then you can do the following various things (as root, or sudo as necessary)

Anyone who has more than a passing familiarity with Linux audio knows about the pulseaudio daemon, and its long history of causing problems with Linux audio in the name of solving them. What it gave us was per-application volume control, but what it took away was reliability. The good news is that there is now a superior replacement for pulseaudio which also replaces JACK in the bargain, called pipewire.

I have recently made the switch as a Linux user from LUKS, LVM and ext4 to ZFS, ZFS, and ZFS. I started it with Ubuntu, which conveniently offered me an encrypted root on zfs option which worked very well for me in general. However, every time I had to interface with systemd it felt like a chore, when what I really wanted was the old school UNIX feel I got from Slackware. And now I've converted to Devuan 4 "Chimaera" on ZFS, which is based on Debian 11 "Bullseye", which is as close to that as I'm willing to get given the amount of work I want to do. In the process, I've had to mount my old zfs filesystems on my new system gracefully, and this is how I went about that.