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Load a Seasonal Banner in Obsidian

Load a Seasonal Banner in Obsidian

I wrote a user script and a snippet for Obsidian's Templater to load a seasonal banner.

UID and GID of default ansible user

UID and GID of default ansible user

Here are three methods to get the UID and GID for the default ansible user. With Ansible facts If you don't disable fact gathering, then your ansible run will have a variable ansible_facts. In this case, you can get the UID and GID directly from it: -

Install paperless-ng: Install paperless

Install paperless-ng: Install paperless

I've finished setting up the shares, so it's time now oto install paperless. The repository has an installation via docker compose and via ansible. I need a combination of the two, with the NAS on top, so I've decided to follow this approach to

Install paperless-ng: Set up Shares

Install paperless-ng: Set up Shares

Today I'm starting to install paperless-ng to finally put an order in the mount of documents I have. This is a necessity because, with the construction of the house, we've amassed a silly number of PDFs (and other documents) and it becomes rather hard to have

Run a Rundeck Command as a Different User

Run a Rundeck Command as a Different User

TL;DR: Add the rundeck user to the sudoers and then use sudo Installing rundeck on Ubuntu usually results in creating a rundeck user. We had a bunch of issues creating a rundeck job because we needed to execute a command as a specific user (only that user had access

Change a django password manually

Change a django password manually

The other day I've been confronted with a strange situation: I forgot the admin password for a django application. I was playing with installing my own pypi repository, I've configured and deployed a test application and, after a couple of weeks, I forgot the password. I

Change the Display Name in Google Groups

Change the Display Name in Google Groups

By default, the groups you're subscribed to show your user name (e.g. the first part from your email address -- before the @ symbol). To change this to show your full name (if you want it), follow the steps below: 1. Click on the group's name

Create a survey with SurveyMonkey

Create a survey with SurveyMonkey

Once in a while, you need to collect opinions of other people in a nice way. One of the options is to create a survey on Survey Monkey. Here are the steps I did to create (and manage) a survey Log in This is the first step. You'll