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I use a 1GB tmpfs on my Linux system, which causes problems with some installs which write their temporary files to /tmp. Here's a way to somewhat gracefully set TMPDIR for every user logging in:

Wow, some people try to make this crazy hard. Here it is from the CLI. Or as a .reg file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"AutoAdminLogon"=dword:00000001
"DefaultUserName"="user"
"DefaultPassword"="password"

This seems to be available from at least Windows 8.1 on.

I have just recently installed Samba as an Active Directory Domain Controller on my Linux system, and I'm still trying to sort out the details. I have never really gotten into Kerberos, and this is a good learning opportunity. One of the things you have to do to enable the use of Kerberos tickets for authentication for services is to add the Service Principal Names, sometimes called "service principals", to the computer's Kerberos account.

I've been playing around with creating a kind of all-in-one, "loaded for bear" Drupal 10 configuration, with a coherent set of compatible and cooperative modules. My goal is to make deployment and expansion simple regardless of your goals.

I like to play games well into their sunset years, which is great because it saves me a lot of money on GPUs. I had Fallout 4 back when it was relatively new, but having tired of my other options, I decided to see how it ran on modern Linux. As it turns out, the answer is that it runs about as well as it does on Windows, maybe even slightly better in the graphics performance department. I started out with a steam deck howto and worked the rest out from there. These instructions assume you have all of the DLC.