TuM'Fatig

Following previous post where using M720q as a desktop machine was considered not that good, someone on the Fediverse pointed me to the AMD versions of ThinkCentre.

Thanks to being subscribed to self-hosting and homelab feeds, I yet again was trapped by compulsive buying and collector’s impulse while browsing the local refurb marketplaces.

Finding a NAS that provides NVMe and SATA storage while being tiny enough to sit in my 10" rack, have a CPU that’s not hogging, use a small amount of watts and offers usage of a non-proprietary OS is not simple.

I went to a trip for replacing my $HOME FreeBSD server with loads of jails and Linux containers with some Slackware Linux server with… isolated applications; $REASONS don’t matter much.

I have deployed a monitoring VPS somewhere on someone else’s computer and I want all my other servers to send it their metrics and logs and alerts etc.

The other day, I used FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi card to get a redundant DHCP server and DNS resolver working together with an OpenBSD server.

Some time ago, I set up Redundant DHCP server and DNS Resolver using OpenBSD .

Not convinced lately with OpenBSD on this board , I went searching for another BSD OS to run on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W.

I’ve been lurking on the PINE64 ROCKPro64 for a long time but its price compared to other options has always kept me from buying one.

A few years ago, I ran OpenBSD 7.4 on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W .

Some times ago, I acquired an ODROID HC4 arm64 board and installed OpenBSD 7.2 on it.

Because of recent elbow issues, I purchased a Logitech Lift, so-called vertical ergonomic mouse .

Not so long ago, I experimented on so-called Generative AI using an external eGPU and Slackware Linux .

My ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 AMD has a French (ISO AZERTY).

When it comes to running (Linux) Docker containers on BSD hosts, I usually end up popping an Alpine or Debian virtual machine with the Docker engine.

My Slackware laptop was doing well with LUKS/LVM/EXT4 but after some Fediverse discussion, I decided using ZFS would be safer for my data.

I own a DELL U2723QE 4K monitor that ships with a KVM so that I can connect two computers.

There are a few times when I want to check which public IP I am browsing from… I used to use the WhatsMyIP sites but the Internet being what it is these days, I switched to using my SearXNG instance which has the IP plugin enabled.

Because I am replacing my Linux KVM machine with an OmniOS bhyve server, and I don’t want to reinstall all my VMs, I went for migrating those.

I bought a noname 2 bays NAS that looks like the Aoostar R1 N150.

One of my OpenBSD server provides DHCP and DNS resolving for my home LAN.

Not matter how hard I try, I can’t stand and learn those systemd and ip censored swearing stuff on Linux.

Last week-end, I was invited to the UNIX Social Camp in Dijon, France to talk about the reasons I still use OpenBSD these days and why should others do so; or at least, have a look at OpenBSD .

When I decided to stop publishing on Instagram, I seeked for alternatives and Pixelfed looked like a nice one.

I already used a Mastodon account but wanted to migrate it to my brand new GoToSocial instance while keeping as much data as possible.

I used to run GoToSocial on OpenBSD but, one day, the port was marked BROKEN and I switched to using Mastodon on Linux.

After watching Wolfgang’s review of the S920 , I went for chasing one and found a refurbished Fujitsu FUTRO S930 for 54€.

Some time ago, I adopted VictoriaMetrics as a replacement for Prometheus; which was already replacing InfluxDB.

Since I started using other Desktop OS than OpenBSD, I’m obsessed with limiting filesystem resources access from applications; especially Web browsers.

When it comes to rendering graphical representation of all the metrics I gather, I generally use RRDtool .

As I was testing OpenBSD on my refurbished ThinkPad T480s, I noticed that the fan kept blowing even though the laptop was IDLE.

While discovering FreeBSD Jails, I wrote on how to run a web browser inside a FreeBSD jail .

For reasons, I have a laptop running both Slackware Linux or OpenBSD.

I was today years old when I needed to change some of the parameters of my Prometheus service on OmniOS.

When it comes to getting an OpenBSD virtual machine, you can go to your preferred Linux VPS provider and hack its rescue mode to install OpenBSD.

It is 2024 and people are still using Window Maker, the X11 window manager that reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NeXTSTEP user interface .

I got an HP Color Laser 150nw wireless printer some time ago and never really tried to use it with OpenBSD.

Since the moment I started having servers in my house, I always put them under my desk or in a bookshelf.

When you edit a script using Vim, you may want to run the script without actually quitting the editor.

Using OpenBSD as a daily driver, I got used to having programs being restricted in their permissions.

Most of my workstations are laptops.

On my OmniOS zones, I don’t use DHCP.

While reading logs, I saw that my OmniOS server was not really time synced with the rest of the Wild Wild World.

Believe it or not, I do all my editing stuff with Vim.

I started using GoToSocial (the fast, fun and small ActivityPub server) in 2022 on OpenBSD.

I run a lot of bhyve VMs on my OmniOS server because that’s the way I’m used to go with exposing services.

I often try various OSes on my spare laptops.

By default, FreeBSD 14.1 does not recognized the multimedia keys of my NuPhy Field75 USB keyboard.

My initial questionning was on the opportunity to run a desktop environment using virtual machines provided by the OpenBSD vmd(8).

A year ago, I wrote about multibooting Windows, Linux and OpenBSD on my laptop.