jutty

jutty, 1 day ago to FreeBSD

Alas, I have to consider some other hardware that is more BSD friendly than what I currently have for my main laptop. Wifi worked great on NetBSD, whereas it was flaky on FreeBSD, but the audio input was the flaky one.

A ThinkPad, maybe? I'll gladly accept hardware recommendations for BSD-friendly models from at least a decade ago (read: cheap).

Current status: Deciding between Void and Alpine for the next episode of The Main Machine Trials®

#BSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD #hardware #VoidLinux #AlpineLinux

jutty, 4 days ago to firefox

After a search in the NetBSD packages for lightweight web browsers, the winners are: vimb, dillo, luakit and netsurf.

Dillo's new release 3.1.0 still hasn't landed, so no HTTPS there. Luakit is very neat, extremely lightweight, minimal, has vim-like bindings and would be perfect if it weren't for the constant white flashing between each pageload when using a custom, darker CSS. NetSurf is also quite neat, with tab support for heavier sessions.

The winner for me is vimb, which although leaving tabs to the window manager, has vim-like bindings, is pretty minimal and does not cause flashing when switching between pages on a custom darker CSS setting.

Honor mention to Arctic Fox, a Pale Moon clone that hits peak nostalgia with the pre-omnibar Firefox look. No theming, not as lightweight, but going strong at 29.5k commits since 2018.

#netbsd #bsd #vimb #dillo #luakit #netsurf #arcticfox #firefox #browsers

jutty, 6 days ago to random

It's alive! Though I had given up yesterday, after a few tries today I got NetBSD 10 running. Though booting is still a bit flaky and I am investigating freezes, I may resurrect this one after all. I could replace the Sony VAIO keyboard, but I just like this one's keys much better than the Sony's island keyboard.

#netbsd #bsd #ctwm #x11 #tmux

A close-up photo of a silver 2008 LG laptop on top of a desk. There is a powered-off monitor in the background, and a red small box with a yellow screwdriver on top of it to the right side of the laptop. A black SanDisk flash drive is on top of the laptop palm rest. One blue and two amber LEDs are lit. The screen shows the NetBSD default window manager, CTWM, with an orange solid color background, a context menu, a window list and a terminal open. The terminal has the tmux multiplexer running two panes split horizontally. The top pane is following the system log, with one acpibat0 workqueue busy message and syslogd messages stating the previous message was repeated several times. The bottom pane is looping every second to print the current date, time, system uptime, user count and load. The date is May 16 2024, 18:00. The system is up for 2 hours and 5 minutes, with 5 users and 0.17 load average.

jutty, 11 days ago to RSS

I have this blog set up and ready for writing using a bare, classic web stack with no framework, no static site generator, just html/css files and some short scripts in JS and OCaml.

The only thing I feel is missing is an RSS feed. Presently I am feeling very inclined to just rolling my own RSS using the very same stack (a text editor and scripts) instead of switching to some SSG just to get an RSS feed. Something tells me that this is a sinful, heretic thought.

Ideas welcome on how to avoid such heresy. Encouragement to just do it also welcome.

#rss #atom #blogging #javascript #ocaml

jutty, 13 days ago to FreeBSD

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.

jutty, 17 days ago to FreeBSD

Recently got a cheap 128 GB SSD to see how BSD would run on my main machine, and this weekend threw FreeBSD on it. I'm sending this toot from the working system, and aside from the general configuration joy of being an Unix nerd, finding almost everything I need to know in the FreeBSD Handbook is a great perk on the second joy: reading docs and being able to flow acting on them.

#bsd #freebsd #unix

jutty, 23 days ago to programming

After a while trying to understand if either ksh or zsh provided a way to prevent taking strings and undefined variables as 0 when doing arithmetic evaluation, there seems to be no feature specifically for it, sadly.

Closest is using set -o nounset (ksh) and setopt no_unset (zsh) to prevent undefined variables from evaluating to zero. If a "string" contains only numbers, a dot and whitespace, it will be treated as a number. Also, if it only contains the name of any other variable and whitespace, it evaluates to that.

Not that I expected shell languages to provide accurate arithmetic.

As a bonus though, it was cool learning about ksh's compound variables, force_float option and especially discipline functions.

#ksh #zsh #shell #programming