Got me an old but new-to-me AsRock A300 DeskMini PC with a Ryzen 2400G. Microsoft says "bah, too old for Windows 11" which is how I got it (traded my HP mini PC that is Win11 supported to a friend who needs Win11 for work-from-home).
What to do with it? Why, run #OpenBSD of course!! I'm thinking minimalist backup workstation with cwm or i3 and as little else as possible that isn't in base already.
Firefox is a given, but apart from it and its dependencies what else would I really need? Thoughts? Opinions? Hit me.
Also noticed that #DNSCrypt provides a large amount of binary distributions for #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #DragonFlyBSD, #Solaris, among several other OSs, plus many architecture-specific binaries. That is really nice! Next thing will be deploying it on the beastie server.
I keep asking dumb #OpenBSD questions, because you awesome nerds keep answering them so well. It's your fault.
Anyway, someone has already made a port for LXQt 2.0.0. How does the rest of the process work, and how long does it generally take for such work to make it into ports/binary packages?
Migrated one of my #OpenBSD VMs to @OpenBSDAms . Super fast setup process, well documented and works like a charm. 100% in line with OpenBSD's sane defaults.
got Syncthing working on my play-around-with #OpenBSD machine. Painless. Installed the package, then ran it manually and got it configured. Wondered how to make it auto-start, like I would do with systemd; turns out I just needed to edit the startup script in /etc/rc.d/ so it used my own user instead of a dedicated Syncthing user; then enable/start it with "rcctl" (which works pretty much like "systemctl" on linux).
On this #AppleEvent day, I want to say that I'm still very impressed with #Apple's technical achievements. Like mini-LED displays on the #iPadPro before, the "tandem OLED" is a smart solution. With their fancy event presentations, Apple makes everything seem obvious, but it's clear that — while many have been loudly proclaiming dissatisfaction that Apple hadn't switched to OLED already — they've been focusing on creating the best in looking/performing/efficient display they can manufacture.
Moreover, we still have a perfectly functional iPad mini 2 that only doesn't get used because it can't run a new-enough version of iOS.
Apple products work better and last longer than they ever have. The problem is the reduction in repairability (batteries & storage, I'm looking at you) and the lack of support for custom OSes.
Other than my iPad, I only use pre-T2 chip Intel Macs so I can easily run #OpenBSD on them. They're more than performant enough for me, but not very energy efficient.
@nicky Yup, still using #MLVWM on #OpenBSD. My current workstation -- aside from my iPad -- is a 2015 13in MacBook Air (dual-core i7) and it also is good at not gulping electricity (though not quite the dainty sips of the iPad.)
I take it the “run macOS on an iPad” situation is still “should technically be possible, some people managed it, but a truckload of work to make work in practice”? Or is there something like the jailbreak installers of old that make it risky but straightforward?
@oktawian@uliwitness I have spent the last year using a 2.2GHz dual-core i7 MacBook Air with 8GB RAM (soldered) as my primary workstation and it's not as bad as one might think. I do run a pretty light-weight OS (#OpenBSD) and X11 WM (#MLVWM), but the former isn't the most I/O optimized OS and even it's barely noticeable when it starts swapping. I always oversize SSD storage though, to delay failure through wear-leveling.
I need a decent VPS host that specialises in #BSD, specifically #OpenBSD based hosting. One that has a good track record for reliability, also good customer support, and general security practises.
I can google this, but I have a lot of BSD people following me, so I'm asking this here, because my followers will know better.
I'm moving all my self-hosted servers over to OpenBSD but some of it is intentionally outsourced, for a few reasons. If people can reply with suggestions that'd be super.