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Long-form writing tagged Ubuntu.
Building an Ubuntu engineering laptop where the disk encryption, credential storage and boot behaviour are decisions rather than defaults: TPM2-backed LUKS unlock, a separate encrypted work volume, and an honest account of what each choice does and does not protect.
A username rename looks like one command and touches a dozen things. What a Linux account is actually referenced by, how to change it remotely without locking yourself out, and why changing the UID is a different job entirely.
Short notes and fixes tagged Ubuntu.
A lab VM with a virtual TPM works from the home directory and fails from a second data volume. The profile permits socket creation under one path pattern only, and the denial is not in the tool's output.
Remote desktop credentials go into the login keyring, and the keyring stays locked until someone logs in at the console. Setting them on a headless machine appears to succeed and produces a connect-then-drop fault.
