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ThinkCenter + MAAS

To manage Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny computers natively via Canonical MAAS (Metal as a Service) for power cycling and remote boot control, you need to target models equipped with Intel vPro (AMT) or AMD PRO (DASH).

Because micro-PCs do not have a dedicated baseboard management controller (BMC) like an enterprise server (IPMI/iDRAC), MAAS uses specific network-based power drivers to talk to these business-class desktop chipsets.

Here is the breakdown of which series work best and how to match them with MAAS.

Volla Phone

https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/yggdrasil

New OS install

Use the UBports installer: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/installer/. Current version 0.10.0 has dependency problems.

Turn on the developer mode
Install fastboottool

AWS cli Cheat Sheet

AMI

Get the Linux 2023 images for x86_84 sorted by the latest:

aws ec2 describe-images --filters "Name=name,Values=al2023-ami-*" Name=architecture,Values=x86_64 Name=virtualization-type,Values=hvm Name=root-device-type,Values=ebs --query 'sort_by(Images, &CreationDate)[-7:]'

To run terraform via a container while providing the aws-vault env variables:

docker run --rm \
    -v `pwd`:/workspace \
    -w /workspace/terraform \
    --env-file <(aws-vault exec default -- env | grep AWS) \
    --env TF_WORKSPACE=production \
    hashicorp/terraform:1.1.6 \
    init/plan/apply

	# /// script
	# requires-python = ">=3.11"
	# dependencies = []
	# ///
	# uv run git_stats.py 2025 <optional author>

	import subprocess
	import sys
	from collections import defaultdict

	FROM debian:testing

	ENV ZIG_VERSION="0.13.0"

	RUN apt-get update && \
	apt-get install --yes --no-install-recommends --no-upgrade libgtk-3-dev libadwaita-1-dev git curl xz-utils ca-certificates

	ADD https://ziglang.org/download/$ZIG_VERSION/zig-linux-x86_64-$ZIG_VERSION.tar.xz /

	RUN tar -xf zig-linux-x86_64-$ZIG_VERSION.tar.xz && \

	{
	"createdBy": "Redirector v3.5.3",
	"createdAt": "2024-01-18T21:23:34.230Z",
	"redirects": [
	{
	"description": "Twitter",
	"exampleUrl": "https://twitter.com/majek04/status/1334811330033946625",
	"exampleResult": "https://nitter.unixfox.eu/majek04/status/1334811330033946625",
	"error": null,
	"includePattern": "https://twitter.com/*",

	FROM ubuntu:21.04

	ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

	RUN apt-get update \
	&& apt-get install -y \
	# Tools for the pyenv installer script
	curl \
	git \
	# Tools to build python from source