jfeilbach

Ubuntu 22.04 Annoyances

Here are a few collected ways I like to customize Ubuntu 22.04 servers. I used to love Ubuntu, but I hate auto updates and snaps. They also put ads and other usless ads diguised as "news" in MOTD. ESM FUD is spread throughout the OS including simple apt functions. You do not need ESM and thus Ubuntu 22.04 has become super annoying. unattended-upgrade is an automatic installation of security (and other) upgrades without user intervention. Consider the ramifications of disabling this service.

Disable unattended upgrades

The Unattended Upgrades feature is enabled by default and it runs at system boot without the user's permission. The configuration is stored in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades

Disable: sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades then a TUI will come up, select "No"

This will not permantently disable the function. After an update it will be enabled. In the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades change these values from 1 to 0. Even doing this it will

loganvolkers

Custom format for displaying bytes as kb, mb, gb or tb.

Response to a few places on the internet: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/docs/x_T_N-yRUYg And here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1533811/how-can-i-format-bytes-a-cell-in-excel-as-kb-mb-gb-etc

Here is one that I have been using:

[<1000000]0.00," KB";[<1000000000]0.00,," MB";0.00,,," GB"

jayktaylor

Hiding the videos

Hiding with uBlock Origin

uBlock Origin, unlike AdBlock Plus and other alternatives, doesn't allow companies to pay to whitelist their ads, and it blocks trackers too. Using it will provide the best experience on Wikia, as the majority of ads and slowdowns will be eliminated.

To block videos using uBlock Origin:

• Click the uBlock Origin icon in your browser
• Then click 'Open dashboard' (the furthest icon on the right under the power icon)
• Click 3rd party filters
• Click the Update now button and then enable uBlock filters - Annoyances

ipbastola

Safest way to clean up boot partition - Ubuntu 14.04LTS-x64, Ubuntu 16.04LTS-x64

Reference

Case I: if /boot is not 100% full and apt is working

1. Check the current kernel version

$ uname -r 

VasekPurchart

/composer.lock -merge

imevro

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    var total = response,
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jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

trongthanh

# source: http://st-on-it.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-move-folders-between-git.html
# First of all you need to have a clean clone of the source repository so we didn't screw the things up.

git clone git://server.com/my-repo1.git

# After that you need to do some preparations on the source repository, nuking all the entries except the folder you need to move. Use the following command

git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter your_dir -- -- all

# This will nuke all the other entries and their history, creating a clean git repository that contains only data and history from the directory you need. If you need to move several folders, you have to collect them in a single directory using the git mv command.

finwe

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