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@astra_underscore@wetdry.world I've got #FreeBSD running on a Thinkpad x260, #OpenBSD on a x200, and #NetBSD running on a random hand-me-down dell laptop (although S3 suspend and charge thresholds don't work on that particular bit of hardware). If there's anything I can do to help, just holler!

*cough* #NoSlop / #NoAI / #AInt / #NeverSlop folks, it's time to put our money where our mouths are. (As you're able) https://www.netbsd.org/donations/ #NetBSD

Post your #NeverSlop tech stack! I'm thinking... OS: #NetBSD, #Illumos, #Haiku, #RedoxOS or #9frontEditor: #ed, #nvi, or #VimClassiceBooks: #clbre??? (Doesn't seem to have any downloads yet); #arcalibre?Social: (egad, #Mastodon is already sloppified?!?) #GoToSocial, #snac2, hopefully #LittleFediAudio editing: #TenacityBrowser: #KonformBrowserImage editing: libvipsData/file encryption: #LibreSSL, ccryptPassword Manager: #ChiPassTerminal Multiplexer: GNU #Screen and #OpenTmuxEmail: #aerc, #clawsMail (I haven't tried all of these yet)

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au I'm gonna need audio on this 😅

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @computerchronicles@mastodon.social Heh, you and me both, friend. I was not a world-wise 20-something, by any stretch. I can only look up to the heavens and give thanks that I wasn't into drugs, and my friends were kind, because I could have really done some stupid, life-altering shiz with that level of petaQ. 😁

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @computerchronicles@mastodon.social lol I love the iconic "The computer for the rest of us" slogan, while the prices were in the stratosphere and all of the people on the marketing materials were preppy white folks. XD

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @computerchronicles@mastodon.social Yeah. I enjoy taking the wee out of Apple these days, but back in the day as an Apple fan, I was like, "How are we losing to these idiots?!?" Of course, 2026 me knows the reason: "Because ain't nobody got time or money to pay $2,500 for an entry-level computer!!!"

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @computerchronicles@mastodon.social I think that depended a lot on whether or not you were running actual PowerPC native code. In native mode, they were supposedly super fast. The emulation for 68k code (the original "Rosetta") was amazing for what it was, but emulation is still emulation. ;)

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au I have mpv aliased to mpv --hwdec=auto, but it does the same thing when I run it without the alias. Gonna try the reboot now ;)

Had an absolutely garbage, rear-axle-scraping-against-the-blacktop kind of mental health day yesterday. 0/100, would not recommend. Send funny tech memes, jokes, and happy thoughts. Or, you know, send nudes of motherboards (not people, you freaks!!! 😆)

@lopta@mastodon.social Ha, you should have met me in 1992. I failed ALL my classes in Uni that fall because of SPARCstation computers!!! 😂

@golemwire Oooo, cool! I need to get my C64U going. I've been stuck because I'm trying to 3d print a keyboard cover and it keeps failing on the second part of the print, lol

@daemonspudguy @davidgerard@circumstances.run @ludonaut@timetheft.rip Corpos figured out years ago that Debian was the hinge of FOSS culture. If they didn't stand up against the systemd cult, they're not going to stand up to anything else, either. They're sadly compromised.

I recently learned while flipping through youtube that the MacBook Neo saves money by only shipping 8GB RAM, ans saves RAM by aggresively swapping to... SSD. So I wonder how long it'll be before all of those SSDs start going belly-up. God forbid you just optimize your bloated OS a little better. rld@prometheus:~$ pfetch ..:::. rld@prometheus ..-==- os Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur) .+#: host 20NQS18E00 ThinkPad X390 Yoga =@@ kernel 6.12.107+deb13-amd64 :+%@#: uptime 5d 3h 10m .:=+#@@%*: pkgs 1871 #@@@#=: memory 1940M / 7604M rld@prometheus:~$ top -bn1 -o '%MEM' |head -15 top - 18:15:51 up 5 days, 3:13, 3 users, load average: 0.22, 0.22, 0.28 Tasks: 195 total, 1 running, 192 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie %Cpu(s): 2.4 us, 2.4 sy, 0.0 ni, 95.2 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 7604.0 total, 2158.0 free, 1944.8 used, 4630.0 buff/cache MiB Swap: 7848.0 total, 7848.0 free, 0.0 used. 5659.2 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2496 rld 30 10 1780740 314984 24556 S 0.0 4.0 15:53.58 syncthing 2303 rld 20 0 1924524 113132 82880 S 0.0 1.5 6:30.24 sway 2456 rld 20 0 565608 95624 62484 S 0.0 1.2 0:05.81 Xwayland 14856 rld 20 0 1132272 77084 31848 S 0.0 1.0 0:04.03 xdg-deskt+ 2404 rld 20 0 510324 42884 35664 S 0.0 0.6 0:00.33 swaync 2398 rld 20 0 2497576 40108 27280 S 0.0 0.5 1:14.50 foot 13677 rld 20 0 1903908 31712 12348 S 0.0 0.4 0:02.71 tut 2448 rld 30 10 1351976 30164 17796 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.85 syncthing Yeah, eat that, "trillions in market cap."

@axxuy@pony.social This is exactly how they get you. Cats find non-cat-people and become very lovy-dovey toward them. Once you're a cat person? IGNORED. 😂 (Basically, they like to be in charge of the interactions, not so much to be approached. For a cat to become comfortable being approached by a person can take a very long time. Or no time at all. They're all different! ;)

More #NetBSD thoughts: I'm an #i3wm / #sway or #KDE #Plasma guy. I tried #OpenBSD's default wm for about a minute, but it was just too jarring for me. I also used #cwm for a while, and it's actually nicely configurable, but I eventually reverted to i3 on OpenBSD. I haven't tried Sway yet, but #Wayland's supposedly working in "Fish Linux" now. ;) But #ctwm? Look, it's pretty ancient, and it's not a totally perfect fit for my worfklow, but I'm actually kinda diggin' it! It's also probably the most attractive default GUI of any of the BSDs, considering that obsd gives you a pretty loud bright red or bright blue titlebar motif-looking thing (not knocking motif, just the primary color choice), and #FreeBSD gives you (checks notes) no GUI by default. XD ctwm isn't quite as flexible as i3/sway, but it's just configurable enough to keep me coming back and tinkering away at it. The way the warpring function (alt+tab, in other words) works is pretty obtuse (only moving forward or backward in the window list, never re-ordering based on recency), but once I learned how to exclude windows (X11 classes or window titles) from the warpring, it became a ton more usable. I also figured out how to enable active titlebar highlight (it drives me nuts when that's disabled or very subtle, how do you even not understand that basic tenet of usability?) and even how to assign an xpm image to the titlebar so it looks pretty. Fun stuff! I should post another screenshot. ;)

@da_667@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange I'm not going to pretend that running BSD is a cakewalk, but particularly for #FreeBSD, there are lots of really helpful folks on the #fediverse. Also, the FreeBSD handbook is amazingly good. --Sent from my nearly ten year old hand-me-down inspiron running #NetBSD ;)

@sotolf@polymaths.social Yeah, I'm not sure how I got here. I think part of it is the ADHD hypercompetent response to traumatic events, we turn into heroes when things are crazy bad, and revert to babbling incoherent messes when things are just slightly bad 🤣 Another part of it is trust issues with family and friends. For complicated and unfortunate reasons, I never completely felt comfortable just completely losing my shit around them, and when alone, I just tended to avoid the emotional stuff because it was unbearable. :/ I'm in therapy, though. Hopefully my therapist will slap me around with an emotional 2x4 (5x10cm? 😂) today.

Stupid network printer only works if I power-cycle it every time I go to print, from any computer in the houseCode up a little bash one-liner to ping the printer every 3 seconds and display a '#' if it's up and a ' ' if it's downPrinter starts working reliably because my pings are keeping it alive somehow?!?!?PROFIT!!!

#ThreeGoodThings: CatsRetro/permacomputingNerdy command-line shenanigans.

@darkpixel@infosec.exchange "restrictive" as in, "not a ban?"

I've got my eye out for some cheap #soda Coke is getting stupidly expensive for what it is. I was at Aldi the other day, and I saw some diet root beer, and bought it excitedly and took it home. I didn't realize until I tasted it that it was root beer flavored sparkling water. It literally tasted like someone poured some soda water into a glass, took a root beer flavored Dum-Dum (lollipop), and swizzled it around in the soda water and served it. Rather underwhelming. 😂 I distinctly remember circa 1993-1995 you could buy a can of soda from the vending machine at the supermarket (cold!) for 35¢ for brand-name soda and 25¢ for store-brand soda. 25¢ From 1993, that's 58¢ in 2026 money. 35¢ is 81¢ today. I don't think I've seen a can of coke for less than $2. No less than $1.50, for sure. Looking at walmart's website, a 12-pack of coke cans is $7.57, or a little over 64¢ each. Unfortunately, I don't remember how much non-chilled soda went for in the 90s. According to one website I looked at, two 12-packs of coke went for $6.98 in 1994. So I guess "wholesale" soda has kept with inflation, but I think vending machine sodas have gotten a lot more xpensive. I know for sure I bought plastic bottles of coke for $1.00 in 2010, but I think that was a subsidized price at my job.

@hyc@mastodon.social @kde@floss.social @kde Aesthetic tail-chasing, yaaay! (I mean, it's not like a fresh coat of paint would be a BAD thing, but 75+% of new UI design in the past fifteen years has been utter dogshite, across all OSes.)

#KDE be like, "Man, picking a good AI policy is so HARRRRRD!" Meanwhile, #Gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy khaby_lame_hand_gesture.mp4 (The policy is CC-BY-SA-licensed, too, guys. You could literally just copypasta it. ;)

New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 16: Retrocomputing https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-16-retrocomputing.html 308 words cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel@polymaths.social @dm@polymaths.social @sotolf@polymaths.social @thedoctor@polymaths.social @pixx@merveilles.town @orbitalmartian@polymaths.social @adamsdesk@fosstodon.org @krafter@polymaths.social @roguefoam@polymaths.social @clayton@polymaths.social @giantspacesquid@fosstodon.org @stfn@fedi.stfn.pl @golemwire (I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :) #rlDaneWriting #blost #SeptemberTheme #SeptemberBloggingTheme #SepThemeBear #SeptemberGratitude #gratitude #thankfulness #RetroComputing #Commodore #VIC20 #emulation #basic #hackaday #RoseTintedGlasses #nostalgia

@atax1a@infosec.exchange @MaddieM4@raphus.social Yeh, I get that. :/ But I also get how other people brought me out of my own shitheadedness through patience and kindness when I was a recovering fundie. I'm not saying that's your job, or your obligation, obviously, I just try to encourage folks to be patient where possible. 💗

New #blog #post: Gratitude Day 3: Cats!! https://rldane.space/gratitude-day-3-cats.html 1292 words I can tell this is going to be a favorite of mine, and I hope it will be of yours, too. :) cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel@polymaths.social @dm@polymaths.social @sotolf@polymaths.social @thedoctor@polymaths.social @pixx@merveilles.town @orbitalmartian@polymaths.social @adamsdesk@fosstodon.org @krafter@polymaths.social @roguefoam@polymaths.social @clayton@polymaths.social @giantspacesquid@fosstodon.org @stfn@fedi.stfn.pl (I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :) #rlDaneWriting #blost #SeptemberTheme #SeptemberBloggingTheme #SepThemeBear #SeptemberGratitude #gratitude #thankfulness #Cat #cats #dogs #CatsOfFedi #Catstodon #aliens?!?

@Timpostma@mastodon.world I have a completely cursed 2018 #Ender3 sitting on the floor in my garage 😆 ...but my main machine is a Sovol SV-07 that I got a couple years ago. It's a bit flawed, a little bit buggy on the software side, but it's got Klipper and it prints decently reliably and fast. It has mesh bed leveling and bed springs, for some silly reason. But I don't print very often, and for the most part, it just works. A #Prusa #CoreXY would be crazy cool, but they're out of my price league. ;)

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au That's the same as Shaw

@atax1a@infosec.exchange @MaddieM4@raphus.social Ok, I'm gonna stick my neck out a little and just trust that folks know me well enough to know where I'm coming from. It honestly sounds like he's being pretty anti-LLM in the beginning of the thread, but the thread kinda devolved to name-calling and childish stuff. I mean, the dude is 26. That's like... 6 to me (I'm old-ish XD) But yeah, seeing KDE potentially fold for LLM junk and now some kind of association with Omarchy is deeply troubling. :'(

@computerchronicles@mastodon.social Hah, 1985 was better than 1995! 😄 Man, the years after Sculley until Steve's re-introduction in 1997 were so lost and clueless. Well, kind of like Apple now, except that they're killing it, financially (not that anyone should care about that). I recently heard some rumblings that Apple is maybe paying influencers to promote the new super-expensive folding iPhone? If it's true, I'm absolutely shocked.

Tired: Me ten years ago talking about doing something in the 1980s and my millennial friends losing their minds and saying, "Wait, HOW OLD ARE YOU!?!?" Wired: Me today, remembering something from the 1980s, doing the math on how LONG ago that was, and then saying, "WAIT, HOW FREAKING OLD AM I!?!?" #OLD 🤣

@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz @ed1conf@bsd.network This is how "Eat flaming death" forever became a part of my lexicon. XD

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com "Grok," because it doesn't understand shiz. 😄

@computerchronicles@mastodon.social @oxy@social.bsdlab.au I remember the Luggable! I used to play around with it at the UT Austin "Microcentre" (no relation to the electronics chain store with a similar name). It played a mean game of Shufflepuck Café! 😅 "Kids today" don't know how close to e-ink early Active Matrix monochrome LCDs were. Pretty darn crisp, if the lighting was good. Fortunately, I never once had to (or even tried) to lift that thing. Lead acid battery?!?! 😂

#POLL: How do you pronounce the "SHA" in SHA-256?

@atax1a@infosec.exchange @MaddieM4@raphus.social Honestly just looks like a photo to me, but I dunno. 🤷‍♂️ Yeah, he was being a churlish dork, but maybe we should be a little less hasty in our judgement. Just perusing his profile, he does post some strongly anti-LLM stuff: https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/117231015717115878

Not sure why, but #mpv on #FreeBSD is super stuttery now and doesn't want to play video. Not sure what happened. rld@Intrepid:~$ uname -srm FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2 amd64 rld@Intrepid:~$ pkg info |grep mpv mpv-0.41.0_1,1 Free and open-source general-purpose video player Tried reinstalling it and all its dependencies, but it's still doing it. Maybe I need to employ my old adage, the very sagest advice from a hypothetical #Canadian: "When in doot, reboot!" Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Please tip your waitstaff. 😄

@sotolf@polymaths.social At times, yes. But there's kind of this grin-and-bear-it, everything-sucks-and-we're-just-gonna-power-through-it stoicism that I've adopted that is honestly really not healthy, but helped me get through some really painful things last year. :( I'm kind of waiting for the (emotional) bubble to pop. Any time now. :E

@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe Wouldn't ssh/sshfs be a better option? SMB seems so convoluted to me, although maybe that's just an opinion from the bad old days when it had to be reverse-engineered by Tridge.

@chadmccullough@mastodon.bsd.cafe @dwarmstrong@fosstodon.org @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org I think #OpenBSD is worth a look, as well. It was easier to get going. But I'm running all three.

@raster@retro-gaiden.com @chadmccullough@mastodon.bsd.cafe @dwarmstrong@fosstodon.org @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org Are you sure OpenBSD doesn't have compat_linux? There's a manpage for it when I search online. Did they jettison it, too? 😄 Oh, it seems to not be in recent versions. They sure do like jettissonning stuff. XD I think you can run qemu, but without hardware optimization. Both OpenBSD and NetBSD have X11 in base. FreeBSD doesn't have any GUI in base, but they're working on a GUI installer with KDE Plasma. NetBSD's ctwm setup is prettier (IMHO) than OpenBSD's fvwm setup, but they're both very functional. OpenBSD's X11 (xenocara) and xdm (xenodm) are a bit more security-hardened and privilege-separated than the regular one.

@sotolf@polymaths.social I used to cry a lot more freely. Now I'm bottled up. It sucks. :(

@dendrobatus_azureus@polymaths.social @Timpostma@mastodon.world No. You want injection molding for that kind of speed. Of course, then the up-front costs go through the roof as the per-unit cost crash through the floor once you get up to real scale.

#TedLasso Feel-good episode. I really envy how ladies can just fall in a heap and cry (stereotypically, anyways). I'm so bottled up, I need some emotional ex-lax. XD

SOON. #Bandcamp #Friday #BandcampFriday https://isitbandcampfriday.com/ — #microblogging #MicroToot: 71 characters