Same. And for me it’s not just the security enhancements. You can find race conditions, poor assumptions about the underlying system, poor documentation… Software portability is more than just getting software to run on loads of systems (if that makes sense!)
I tried setting up a Wireguard VPN for myself but failed to figure it out. I’m definitely going to give this a look when I get some free time.
I used to run my own OpenVPN in the past, but have since switched to the free ProtonVPN tier with wireguard.
One usecase for me is accessing local video streaming services for my kids when traveling (they are geoblocked outside of the country). Other than that, I’m mostly using Tor for privacy purposes these days.
No problems in the couple of years that I’ve used it, but upgrading in the past wasn’t painfully terrible either. Just fetch bsd.rd and boot into that.
Of course you couldn’t do it remotely, but the historical ease of updating highlights the well-engineered simplicity of OpenBSD.
How much memory. Also are you waiting for the kernel relink to complete ?
I have OpenBSD 7.3 on a R51e and it works fine, zippy considering. But of course, Firefox is a no go . It has 2gig memory, but I always wait for the relink to complete :)
That’s awesome, I didn’t know you could filter by user ID ! I just tried and it works perfectly. I use the following:
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<span style="color:#323232;">block out proto { tcp udp } from self to port != domain user otl
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This effectively blocks all outgoing connections for the given user (except DNS, as I want to allow forwarding DNS over SOCKS). Thanks a lot for the quick guidance !
No worries! I assume you’re the same z3bra who posted on /r/unixporn? If so answering your question quickly is the least I could do; your posts got me back into Linux/Unix for fun during university (studying medical science) in 2014. That got me a job in IT straight out of uni then into software dev. It’s been a wild ride the past 9 years living in both Australia and the Netherlands. So big, big thanks to you!
Yeah that’s me, though that was a very long time ago haha. That’s an awesome story, I could never guess simple posts like mines could be that much inspirational ^^ Thanks for sharing !
There is a SATA mod for the T43p that I never got around to doing. I guess 20 years in, it's not happening.
And also some PATA SSD's out there that probably cost as much as the laptop is worth. That's the realistic path forward.
But this is fine for now. I literally pull the laptop out about twice a year anymore, usually to update the install and then browse the web slowly for a few hours. The rest of the time it sits on a shelf, plugged in as to not let the battery completely drain.
I imagine i386 OpenBSD will be supported for another couple of decades. It wasn't that long ago that VAX was dropped.
Using this tutorial as a starting point I managed to get Lemmy 0.17.4 to run on OpenBSD 7.3. I've made a first stab at packaging lemmy-server and lemmy-ui.
The ship has sailed for anything other than Windows or Mac as a mainstream, popular desktop. And it's sailing away from Windows and Mac too, towards phones and tablets. Mobile devices are "computers" for a profitably large number of people, and I don't see that changing.
That said, for this (literally) graybeard old UNIX admin, OpenBSD makes a great desktop. I like that it feels very much like my old SunOS, Solaris, and historic Linux machines, and I like administering my systems by editing simple text files instead of dealing with systemd/dbus/etc.* That said, I do still have an iPhone, and use it for the things it's better at.
systemd is fine, dbus is fine, they do what people want them to do. This isn't a rant about those things. I've learned to deal with them in my professional life. For my own stuff, though, I want something that I consider simpler and easier to understand. I do enough fighting systems at work; I don't need it at home, too.
A long time ago I really enjoyed the pf firewall in openbsd - it was so much easier than iptables and chains, which I somehow still don't fully understand. How is the obsd experience to do NAT and manage a firewall ruleset these days?
I've found sysupgrade to be pretty good at the core OS, but I have definitely had issues with drivers (particularly audio and display) and third party packages installed through pkg_add. Upgrading seems to be a mixed bag in terms of continuity of function when you're running a richer system, as a workstation often is. On a server, with minimal package surface area, things are just fine.
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