+# https://askubuntu.com/questions/33416/how-do-i-disable-the-boot-splash-screen-and-only-show-kernel-and-boot-text-inst
+# it suggests not having plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text, but
+# making it not installed then kills plymouth, then makes
+# the system not boot.
+sed -ri 's/(^ *GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX.*)quiet splash/\1/' /etc/default/grub
+# on xenial, no grub is displayed at all. fix that.
+# found just by noticing this in the config file, and a
+# warning about it in error.log
+sed -i '/^ *GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT/d' /etc/default/grub
+update-grub2
+EOF
+
+
+# reading through the groups that ian is in but traci isn't,
+for g in plugdev audio video cdrom; do
+ $ROOTCMD usermod -a -G $g traci
+done