a dud is a nothing match that has nothing to it . It can ' t be rated because it has nothing of substance , good or bad . <| sep |> They only run the coastal class ships on the Nanaimo route during the summer . The rest of the year they are just parked . <| sep |> Is that real ? I remember before I went to Canadian basic which has all three elements together people kept telling me about the card system for when you ' re too stressed . Never heard it even mentioned at basic . <| sep |> I am also using a Yubikey Neo . For me it just works using Tails 2 . 7 . usb 31 . 2 Product Yubikey NEO OTPU 2 FCCID usb 31 . 2 Manufacturer Yubico input Yubico Yubikey NEO OTPU 2 FCCID as devicespci 00000000000014 . 0 usb 33131 . 231 . 21 . 0000310500116 . 000 Ainputinput 23 hidgeneric 000310500116 . 000 A input , hidraw 2 USB HID v 1 . 10 Keyboard Yubico Yubikey NEO OTPU 2 FCCID on usb 00000014 . 01 . 2 input 0 hidgeneric 000310500116 . 000 B hiddev 0 , hidraw 3 USB HID v 1 . 10 Device Yubico Yubikey NEO OTPU 2 FCCID on usb 00000014 . 01 . 2 input 1 gpg cardstatus and gpg 2 cardstatus both return the expected result . I use the GPG features of the Yubikey extensively especially GPG ' s sshagent . While the Neo is my daily driver , I do have a Yubikey 4 Nano here to test usb 31 . 2 Product Yubikey 4 OTPU 2 FCCID usb 31 . 2 Manufacturer Yubico input Yubico Yubikey 4 OTPU 2 FCCID as devicespci 00000000000014 . 0 usb 33131 . 231 . 21 . 0000310500407 . 000 Cinputinput 24 hidgeneric 000310500407 . 000 C input , hidraw 2 USB HID v 1 . 10 Keyboard Yubico Yubikey 4 OTPU 2 FCCID on usb 00000014 . 01 . 2 input 0 hidgeneric 000310500407 . 000 D hiddev 0 , hidraw 3 USB HID v 1 . 10 Device Yubico Yubikey 4 OTPU 2 FCCID on usb 00000014 . 01 . 2 input 1 And as you said , gpg cardstatus yields an error gpg selecting openpgp failed ec 6 . 108 gpg OpenPGP card not available general errorI have some homedir customizations that the persistance config doesn ' t quite handle , so I have dotdirs maintain a copy of my . bashrc , and put some if statements in there so that the first time I open a terminal , my few extra commands execute . This wouldn ' t work for things that require root , though . I ' m not sure exactly at what stage in the bootup Tails applies the persistance config , but you could possibly overwrite some files in etc using that persistance . conf file . The syntax looks fairly straightforward , and cups is already basically doing that and could serve as a template . If you wanted to go way out into left field , you could put your desired scripts into a debian package and possibly have liveadditionalsoftware . conf install it . I haven ' t tried either of these methods except for minor tinkering . A possible third option , and likely the most work and most hacky option , would be to unpack the root squashfs , modify what you want , then resquash it and put it back on your thumb drive . Honestly though , if l i v e p e r s i s t e n c e T a i lsDataunlockedpersistence . conf can be coerced into doing what you want . that ' s probbaly your best bet .