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.
How can I be up-to-date with current developments of all #bsd without following their mailing lists? I'd love to know what they are cooking (got or graphical installer for example) but without following dev discussions, as those are too low-level for my needs.
And here is more I learned on the same subject: 'lock' is not implemented under Ubuntu or #slackware so 'tmux lockc' does not seem to work either. The utility 'vlock' does the same thing, but is not installed by default.
But installing 'vlock' does not make 'tmux lockc' work under Linux. ☹️
Under #OpenBSD and #NetBSD 'lock -p' uses your default password, but 'tmux lockc' work as expected (meaning, it asks for your login password). No '-p' means entering a separate password for unlocking.