jmcunx

joined 2 years ago
[–] jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago

For OpenBSD, as long as the computers have the same CPUs and you are using the standard kernel, I doubt any changes are needed. I have done this many times without issues.

But, at the very least you should do a fw_update

[–] jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The biggest impact would be to max out the memory. That will not help with browsers like Firefox, but will help with other items.

Plus there is a whole world out there that many people ignore or do not know about, USENET and IRC. Accessing those will work with just about any Thinkpad, no matter how old. Plus there is toot for Mastodon (I need to get that working), but not sure if there is a text utility to access lemmy

I have a Thinkpad which is a bit newer then yours (R51e) with OpenBSD on it. I get by quite well with dillo, links (need to try links2), mutt, tin (USENET) and irssi (IRC). All I did is maxed out memory to 2G. But, I never do banking on the Internet. All I do is need to do is get my pdf bank statement once a month which I use a newer Thinkpad for.

[–] jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

I had a hard time getting into it too, but I got to it. So I will paste it in.

From: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/24552643 via https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/joes

The number of participants stayed the same. There were 2722 more tournament games than last year, the proportion of all games played went up 6.6%. 9 fewer people ascended 13 fewer games, with a higher ratio of 2.9 asc/player. There was only 1 ascension in Fourk, Dyna and 1.3d. 81% of games were scummed, 58% of all scums that month, basically split 2:1 between 31PwnMoat (again) and hecatonheir (last year it was dedal). Medusa was killed 87 more times, again mostly by Valkyries, but also dwarven Anachrononauts. 3.7 was played even more, dnh gained 7 ranks (+3.9%p), Un lost 4th place to HackEM (-4.9%p), Splice stayed in 3rd place, Spork/Fourk were played least, but 1.3d shot up 4 ranks from last place. On the australian hardfought server 8x more games were played.

And a comment from https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/joes

Clan DeepCavernGoobs managed to break all conducts in 19 games. malor ascended 11 variants; Merlek killed Medusa 9 times, only ascended 4, but got a trophy in all 21 variants. Only Umbire ascended 1.3d (uncrowned). jonosmalls and smurphy ascended Unnethack (jono even without Elbereth [also in xnh], killing all Riders and Baalzebub). Splice: finitelycraig got the Bell, stoicjin the Luckstone. Spork: Muad got the Bell, bleeko entered Gehennom. Grunt: Merlek killed Medusa and got the Luckstone, hothraxxa finished Sokoban. hothraxxa ascended NH4 without killing Vlad and the Quest nemesis. Fourk: recuerdo ascended, fitsf killed Croesus. FIQ: oh6 escaped in celestial disgrace, Merlek splatted on the Planes, Umbire killed Rodney. hothraxxa ascended DynaHack, bleeko reached Gehennom. fitsf and malor ascended SLASH’EM, ocnda escaped in disgrace. disperse and malor ascended SlashTHEM. Dictyostelium entered the Quest in HackEM. anselmus and malor ascended AceHack, ais523 and recuerdo splatted on the Planes. Noisytoot killed Demogorgon in nndnh.

 

For the 2024 junethack postmortem see:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/24552643

For the curious, this is the junethack site:

https://junethack.net/

[–] jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

No, to write to a CD, you need to use specialized software, not just a simple copy.

Plus what about copying to replaced a files already on the CD ? I believe you need to clear it first then rewrite everything back. CD are about as inconvenient as a media can get.

[–] jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Nothing except for the limited size. I believe even today, nothing exists today for temp storage that have the convenience of diskettes.

USB Flash Drives comes close, but cheaper versions can in rare cases have firmware "virises". On a diskette, just do a format and all issues gone. Also I never even thought twice about mailing a file on a diskette expecting to never see that diskette again. Flash Drives, I still would like to get it back after mailing it out :)

[–] jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Nice, I have NetBSD v10.0 on my Thinkpad T420, and issues I had with an external monitor has been fixed plus is is more zippy.

The only remaining issue I have with 10.0 is when the system is under very heavy load, Xorg can get temporarily corrupted after about 1 hour of the job running. I create PR 58217 for that issue.

In reality, I think very few people will ever run into this problem, but hoping for a 10.x fix some day :)

[–] jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice, "No BigTech" is the main reason I may very well be 100% BSD rather soon. Right now I use BSD 50% of the time to ensure objects I develop on Linux works everywhere. By testing on both OpenBSD and NetBSD, I have found many memory issues Linux has been quite happy ignoring :) These are items have written for use on AIX, soon to be RHEL :(

[–] jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

I remember working in a warehouse that stored many ICs when I was very young. IIRC, Zilog packaging was quite good. Some other brands packages would crack or open up if nor handled with "kid gloves". This brings back memories,

[–] jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One of my favorite shows. The show started out very well, then morphed into a shoot-them-up type show in the later seasons, which I did not like. But I stuck with it.

Too bad it went the way it did :(

[–] jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I binged it a year ago or so, yes it holds up well and is still entertaining :) I use to watch it when it came out, but I missed most of the first season back then.

Enjoy,

[–] jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I saw this a while ago, very nice. What was the end result, was it upgraded to a newer NetBSD ?

[–] jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

You should probably check https://www.netbsd.org/

The Guide and FAQ should answer your question.

 

NetBSD 10.0 reached RC1. You can get it from here:

http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-10/202311070920Z/images/

 

I am a bit surprised no one posted this here yet, but OpenBSD 7.4 was released:

https://www.openbsd.org/74.html

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