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It sounds like you’re trying to learn but have an “all or nothing” mentality to going about it. Nothing is mastered all of a sudden and expecting mastery out the gate is a recipe for burn out. If you’re goal is absolute perfection then you’ll never even start.

Go through the online docs and training resources first to gain an understanding of how to assemble playbooks without a direct implementation target attached.

Once you have a sense of what Ansible is and what it can do for you, pick something small to do for yourself. For example, create a playbook that sets up nginx for a single purpose.  When there are a 100 different ways to do something, you’ll never do it right. You’ll do it acceptably, then you’ll do it again better and then you’ll do it again more flexibly, etc.  If you know or pick up Python then you’ll start being able to dive into custom modules and plugins.

A toolkit is something you build over time. You build it over time because it’s impossible to know what you’ll need before you start. If you do end up pulling together a toolkit that you think it appropriate and complete before you start working then you’ll have a mess of configurations that are not applicable and mostly inappropriate that you’ll end up debugging forever.

Start small. Start where you are.

Archiving (catting files together) and compression are two different actions. This is true even in formats and zip or rar where the functions have always been a part of the same utility. They are separated in Unix because the Tape ARchiver wasn’t initially intended to produce a file on disk. The tar utility did eventually add compression but that’s not always desirable.

An archive of compressed files is just another archive regardless of the format.  Compressed files is also a bit vague a term.  Most video and music formats are compressed, so compressing them again doesn’t really add much value and can sometimes even produce larger sizes.

No, it’s just a shitty post.  There’s a slight, yet significant, difference.

Reinstall shouldn’t be required but you’ll likely need to build a new initrd to ensure the boot process has the right drivers.

Starting to remember more about how this is done.  It’s been over 10 years since I had a similar setup working.  Are you VLANing first then slaving to the VLANS?

This post is a bit difficult to follow without being able to examine actual configurations. The bridged VLAN setup is a chain of configs in the RedHat configuration methodology. One of those configs is definitely clobbering the others but it seems you’re close. I’m sure a careful review of your work so far will be enough to find the error.

but in the year 2525 all life on earth will be extinct

Dude, NSFW!  My boss nearly caught me looking at this raw hard corn!

There’s a new magic word, doas.

This is interesting.  It looks like a gift card program.  They allow you to create a card and fund it using crypto up to $1,000 USD.  Once a funded card account is depleted it cannot be reloaded (this is how they skirt KYC).  Their accounts cannot be used for cash withdrawal (covers AML).  They do have a mechanism for moving funds between card accounts though.  The FAQ was able to answer all the questions I thought of regarding the program.

Seems worth a measured explore.  I used to work in a job that encouraged playing around with payment and money transfer networks a bit though.

United we stand, divided we fall

Something, something, Elon helped him rig the election, something, something

Everyone says how great our pixels are

TFW Clippy ain’t @ you back

Party like it’s 1789!!

😭 NOT THE 7-LAYER BURRITO!!!