My personal laptop died. I acquired a secondhand Dell Latitude 5285. The specs (i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) aren’t as fancy as they could be, but the price was right. I initially tried to install Windows 11 to determine if the device was entirely functional, as one does with a used device. It seems the i5 isn’t a supported generation, though. So back to good ol’ Windows 10. Which worked great during testing!

On the third day of training, we awoke and started whatever daily tasks we were given. The chores that somehow contribute to the Kinship functioning. Concluding those chores, Storm started trying to discretely seek out Kernick, perhaps he had successfully deserted from this ragtag military of volunteers. Eventually making his way to the Mundos camp, locating Kernick doing some maintenance on the training yard, refilling the targets with straw, flattening the sands of the sparing pit.

On the second day, we woke and started our usual chores. Upon finishing those tasks, Storm was curious about Kernick, who he recalled convincing to try and desert from the current multi-country military. He wasn’t able to find him, but might try again the next day. Heading to the assigned training arena this was more familiar that it was yesterday, so he found a seat and waited to lose access to his own senses, waited to enter another memory based training exercise.

We finished up a game session, and I thought I would give a bit of a summary. This is more for recurring writing exercises than anything else. We start the session with our intrepid heroes completing their daily tasks. They haven’t formed an adventuring party yet, and they haven’t exchanged names at this point in the story. With the last of the continent’s unified army having arrived, most members of this encampment the size of a small city are informed training will start today.

I’ve given myself a personal goal of creating 100 ansible playbooks, I suppose roles would also count. The destination is essentially accomplishing 100 goals with ansible. These are what I’ve already accomplished. blocky.yml install_disable_usb_wake.yml install_sshd_config.yml install_sudo.yml lynis.yml podman.yml promtail.yml run_updates.yml Overall not terribly complex roles, most of them have hardcoded defaults but that’ll probably get resolved when the existing playbooks get converted to roles. Most recently I made a playbook that setup and configured blocky-dns which would be my 8th playbook.