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- Due to the alignment of some stars financially, I went out and obtained a Chromebook for practically free! Specifically I am getting a Toshiba Chromebook 2. Although I tend to lean more toward open source OSes and non-cloud services, I want to explore the feasibility of actually using a lightweight laptop for regular purposes. Specifically I will be focusing around three use cases:
Normal End User Tasks. Sysadmin Tasks. Development Tasks.
- General Workstations (Cloud) Asana: The main task tracker we use at home Asana CLI: Asana CLI in Go. Asana Project Mover: Move projects between workspaces GifCAP: Completely client based animated GIF capture tool! Source code Linux Workstations Ultra-Geek Workstation Guide: Really good overview of hardware/software for Workstations Nix Configs: An example of a nicely modularized nix configuration Windows Workstations Source
Nitenite: Simple installation wizard for new installs Remote Support MeshCentral RustDesk
- A complete desktop environment utilizing the command line
ASCIINema: An ingenious way to share a text-based walkthrough/presentation Source along with Javascript Player Source and Webcast Server Source AsciiFlow - Not really a CLI App, but a handle ASCII chart design tool. SSH Access Pure SSH Javascript SSH for public console, with SSO Command Environment bash tmux to allow easy multi-tasking, or perhaps byobu Modern Unix Commands ripgrep-all: Ripgrep, that also searches PDFs, eBooks, Office Docs, etc.
- Every now and then we do have to use windows. So let’s try to make it as Linux like as possible
Enabling WinRM As Ansible leverages WinRM for managing Windows servers, it’s guide below provides a lot of helpful guidance:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/windows_setup.html
The TL;DR is to use the following snippet below to run a powershell script that will correctly enable WinRM for the system:
$url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1" $file = "$env:temp\ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1" (New-Object -TypeName System.