I found a 10 yr old thread that gave Ideas to make the $bash prompt more personal and colorful... here is normal user:when I am root is changes to: so this is my user prompt......

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Would you please provide a link to the old thread?

My Pleasure....

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...k-like-115354/

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this:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...9/#post6231628

I've learned this week that I like Brave browser & can take a break from using Firefox with all the security extensions I've added.

I learned yesterday that you can use LibreOffice Draw to edit PDFs.

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instinctively I had removed the .wine directory after testing some Windows-program. It turns out that I do not continuously use such software, so there is occasionally like 1 thing to uninstall.

Now I discoveredand got reminded that there was DotNet stuff waiting to be erased, too. I guess, removing the whole directory is the best option.

xprop and xdotool

I feel that I should have known both and that there were (once) people who relied on me knowing “such things”, while I didn't. I actually like to find out that I got away economizing brain space and can eventually play with these tools for fun

This week I learned something about EFI. I don't need to auto mount the EFI partition in /etc/fstab to boot my machine. I added noauto to the /boot/efi stanza in /etc/fstab.

I do need to manually mount the EFI partition to upgrade the kernel and initrd on the EFI partition.

This reduces the errors on the EFI disk partition and the periodic need to run fsck on the EFI partition.

If you use Docker

I was running out of space and I couldn't figure out why docker was using so much despite pruning and removing stuff. This cleaned up 40gb of old things.

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I tried this once and found it very complex and also somewhat unreliable...?

I just tried again, just removing 1 element from a multi-page PDF with graphics - it sent LO Draw spinning on all 4 cores for a full minute just opening the PDF.
The result is also different in other places (that I didn't edit at all) and much larger than the original, viewing the resulting PDF in qpdfview also maxed out resources for a full minute.

I then tried again with a simple browser printout, that worked flawlessly afaics.

I'm just glad I do not rely on PDF's as editable documents.

Regular desktop Ubuntu journals can take 25 Gb of logs, because of repetitive

So, what did you learn from that situation?

With a sysvinit boot, the solution would be obvious: just edit syslog.conf to raise the threshold for messages to be logged. But can you do something similar for systemd?

This has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

But to humour you:
Yes you can.
search for "MaxLevel"

But then again: that would be bad advice to give - like saying "fix your car/fridge/whatever by cutting the electricity from the blinking emergency light".