#introduction

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a gravel road winds through the forest. on the right, a "private road" sign reads "eratee" (est.)

you may want to check your model here:
https://wilkgr76.github.io/tp_logo/

also i'd recommend to check official documentation on lenovo site.

I made an online bitmap font editor (monospace only for now) that can import and export a bunch of formats including TTF/WOFF.

damieng.github.io/ch8ter/

Source up at github.com/damieng/ch8ter

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A screenshot of my bitmap font editor showing the letter E being edited.

$ ssh root@sun "sysctl hw.setperf=99"

OpenBSD -current moves to 7.9-beta https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260311062921

the fan still kicks in under the load, but at least when cpu frequency is low, the fan is off

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red: fan off or 2000 rpm, gray: cpu 400-4000mhz

browsers are 2-3% faster than in #xenocara

trackpad and trackpoint are not working as expected

whole setup a bit more complicated (starting from tty0, installing extra packages, extra line in fbtab, etc)

for this week at least i'm switching back to good old #x11 and #cwm :)

9.78 xenocara + cwm
9.86 wayland + sway

cc: @haddock@bsd.network

Talking w/ friends about shortwave recently and was reminded as a 1980s kid I was able to RECEIVE PICTURES FROM SPACE SATELLITES on my Apple ][ w/ a simple circuit & assembly code from a magazine. I found it! BYTE June 84: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/80s/Byte-1984-06.pdf On perfboard into joystick port! #appleii

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"FAX Converter" circuit schematic going from shortwave receiver output to Apple II game controller port. It's just a transformer to half-wave rectifer to a transistor to make clean digital edges

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Example "fax" image output from satellites that the Apple II was receiving

Okay this is doing the rounds and it's fun and infuriating. My advice: if you hit one you can't do, just guess and keep going. There are certain hues I struggled with more than others.

FWIW, I got 0.0050

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AfIgKP__8L9r

pink is the hardest for me... also this test works the best on iphone, not so good on google pixel.

edit: the best results on macbook :)

cc: @rek@merveilles.town @spiralganglion@merveilles.town

also curious if recent changes help in any way...

uname -sr
sysctl hw.version
time (x11perf \
-dot \
-create \
-destroy \
-map \
-rect500 \
-aa24text \
-copywinwin100 \
-f8text \
-fitext \
-gc \
-getimage500 \
-pcircle100 \
-polytext \
-putimage500 \
-rect500 \
-resize \
-scroll100 \
-tileftext \
-tr10text \
-triangle100 \
-repeat 2 \
-time 1 > /dev/null)

OpenBSD updates drm(4) subsystem to Linux 6.1.18 level

https://discoverbsd.com/p/9130c6def0

Proof of concept: A servo motor, a little platform with an opposing wheel, and two TPU tyres with a tiny groove down the middle will very capably grab a length of solder and push/pull it.

This is part 1 of the next addition to my soldering station: a pen that precisely pays out solder wire as it's needed.

I have some continuous rotation servos and some 1mm ID PTFE tubing in the mail. This should be a quick, fruitful project. #3DPrinting #Arduino #maker #SolderingStation

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A photo of mostly 3D printed parts on a desk. A small servo motor with two blue rubber wheels has gripped a length of soldering wire which has been dispensed from a larger roll of it.

tl;dr: charge your battery before bios update. keep connected to ac power, don't turn off, don't unplug the usb drive during bios update.

warning! this may brick your thinkpad:
https://romanzolotarev.com/tp/boot.sh

see also
https://romanzolotarev.com/tp/boot.html

https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/the-berkeley-vi-editor-home-page

Do we need yet another person crashing out about Apple’s design decisions? Am I doing it only because it’s fashionable to be on Apple Design Hate Train these days? I’ll be honest: I don’t know. But I have been bothered by Apple’s approach to some of its keyboard design for a while.

Even if you don’t care about any of this, it might be a fun visual history of the most tricky of modern modifier keys: the [Fn] key. Hope you like it!

https://aresluna.org/fn

2.006 ssh -C s1 find /
2.672 ssh s1 find /

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-size 24

other windows (incl. #firefox) are respecting settings from /etc/X11/xenodm/Xresources

Xcursor.size: 96
Xcursor.theme: dmz

4.32 vimb
7.36 qutebrowser
7.96 firefox
9.76 iridium
9.78 ungoogled-chromium

notes: when i re-run the tests scores are changing (just slightly); at some point openbsd frozen during vimb test (just once, couldn't reproduce, worked well after reboot)

o_O

i'm trying to switch from #neovim to vi, but feel sad missing some awesome plugins... :(

and most of all the best file manager for vim ever

Need #Uxn on the m5 stack?
https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn-m5

i prefer using computers via command line and text files (sed, cut, grep, vi). i like typing and i avoid pointing devices or touch screens for two reasons:

(1) moving my fingers away from home row feels like too much work (can be addressed by svalboard or some other ergonomic devices).

(2) i can easily automate what i type and it's much harder to automate graphical interfaces.

of course for drawing or 3d modeling i use a mouse and on my phone i use touch screen, but if i can produce svg or png file by editing a text file i do just that...

see also

• on wigglypaint post
• wigglypaint at itch.io
• decker
  

cc: @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

if yes, how?
if not, why not?

spent most time changing settings in bios, configuring new hardware and new software.

once configured my shell script deploys everything in a few minutes.

feels like it's a bit too much...

on a positive note i only need to configure it once for a new laptop and then i can reinstall everything on exactly the same or similar thinkpad in just a few minutes :)

Ok so. Been using #RSS readers for a long time. Mostly #Thunderbird and some #FOSS Android apps.

Annoying to me has always been that the two don't talk to each other, and some QoL features missing. So now I am exploring #NewsBlur and #InoReader after reading that Pluralistic article. So far so good.

WHICH IS YOUR RSS READER OF CHOICE? Must work on Android & sync to an interface I can access through a browser.

Update, thank you all for the slew of responses and suggestions!! 🙏🏼

#BoostOK

i disabled something else and it helped.
i disabled everything i could :)
will reset bios to default settings and change it one by one to see what it is.

I took some old pixel fonts, turned them into vector fonts, but normalized their cap height… so the original pixel size is now serving as this new strange property – kind of like “pixel resolution.”

It’s kind of interesting to play with! I made a little playground and you can also download all the fonts I made there: https://aresluna.org/pixel-fonts/

this time around i feel like i'm ready. don't have a mouse nowadays

ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

everything what i need is tested and working.
(haven't tested: fingerprint sensor)
(work in progress: microphone)

\o/

#thinkpad t14 gen3 i5 1245u running #openbsd 7.8 -stable

one day i'm going to try x13s (iirc it's fanless)

I've been working on Pixel Room Creator this week. Here are some half-finished assets that will be in the 1.1 update. I will create some more when I have time. Currently aiming at getting the update done for the one year anniversary, June 1.

#ScreenshotSaturday #IndieGame #IndieDev #PixelArt #Isometric

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An image in isometric pixel art style, depicting many different objects - kitchen things, toys for pets, sports gear, decorations, etc.

Entertaining the idea of creating a digital font based on the design language of the abstract paintings I did a while ago. #theWorkshop

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An abstract font spelling TROYMER. It has two smaller words on top and bottom spelling TAGTROYMER and NACHTSCHWÄRMER

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An abstract painting with few bold brush strokes

• facename spleen-6
• scaled up to 18px
• no antialiasing

• minimal cpu freq (400 mhz)
• minimal backlight (level 1)
• wifi on, but inactive
• bluetooth off
• xenodm on, but inactive (no windows open)
• only default services running
• single shell script running (calling apm every minute and writing a few lines into to a file)
• nothing else connected (no exteral displays, no usb, no ethernet)

• audio(ok)
• battery(ok)
• display port(ok)
• ethernet(ok)
• ssd(ok)
• trackpad(ok)
• trackpoint(ok)
• usb(ok)
• video(ok)
• wireless(ok) --- after fw_update
• hibernation(ok)
• suspend/resume(ok)
• bluetooth(no)

• fingerprint(not tested)
• microphone(not tested)
• webcam(not tested)

everything is okay, but even while idle the fan is at ~2000 rpm and temperature is about +40ºC...

after silent macbook air m1 it's just too noisy :)

I moved all my repos to #GotHub:

https://gonzalo.gothub.org/

And you can do the same! Go to https://gothub.org/ and check it out!

Maybe you are interesting on this one too:

https://openbsd.gothub.org/index.html

#OpenBSD #got #GotHub

why some of the files listed twice? o_O
#openbsd

#plan9 #9front #watching

Nobody on LinkedIn has ever had a bad day. Every setback is a "growth opportunity." Every firing is a "new chapter." Every complete professional disaster is framed as "excited to announce." These people would describe the Titanic as "a bold pivot to submarine operations."

I love how vibecoded commits are called vommits. It's so perfect.

I’m launching my “unreliable timecapsule” website that is stored in a 1.44mb floppy and running on a raspberry pi. If you feel like, leave a message to the future, as long as the floppy lives! Once it gets filled, that’s it. Check it out at https://floppy.loop0.sh

And be kind.

Anyone out there running wayland on #openbsd, as a daily driver that have written anything about it?

@monospace

If you need it outside of vim, there's expand(1) and unexpand(1)

$ expand -t4 file_with_tabs.txt > file_with_spaces.txt

$ unexpand -t 4 has_spaces.txt > now_with_tabs.txt

https://support.apple.com/guide/music/intro-to-the-itunes-store-mus3e2346c2/mac

All songs offered by the iTunes Store come without Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection. These DRM-free songs, called iTunes Plus, have no usage restrictions and feature high-quality, 256 kbps AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) encoding.

Here's echo.html [1], a project I've been working on for almost a year! It's a tool to take notes, connect them, and save/share them as a single file. Imagine a mix between Feather Wiki and Roam but with commands like on emacs. Feels strange, and exciting, to call it done. :) Hope you like it!

[1]: https://m15o.net/echo/

one ethernet port and one console is all i need

i'm looking for some boards that already supported by openbsd

i've been thinking to try what is already supported and maybe rk3588 based computers

15th gen has stability issues
13/14th gen—stability issues and possible cpu damage

o_O

luckily i'm ordering 12th gen... should i stock up more thinkpads with 12th gen cpus just in case we completely lost the art of build reliable hardware? or should i try #riscv?

for whoever needs to hear this: you're not alone. i'm not vibecoding any of the software i write. i'm writing it by hand, but i've leveled up my emacs with eglot/lsp. i'm modernizing my stacks and use languages with excellent compilers. i think about how to do more with less. i'm trying to combine the best human-written libraries and modules and assemble them with minimal boilerplate. i enjoy reading your manuals and references. i believe in robust, secure, human-written software.

Finished up my post:

"DIY Home Network with OpenBSD, OpenWrt, and Pi-hole"

https://btxx.org/posts/diy-home-network/

#openbsd #router #openwrt #pihole

(PS. sorry for spamming my RSS readers! Had an odd sync issue with my host)

I've finally finished re-written my website generator in Lua. It's a lot more forgiving than C and hopefully more fun and easy to maintain in the future.

https://nchrs.xyz/

Kicking off #MARCHintosh with the smallest Mac ever: the Pico Micro Mac!

Check out the video on Level 2 Jeff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gOS22wEpmU

A little game I'm working on. i'm new to this platform, so using the opportunity to figure out how it all works.

#pico8 #indiedev #indiegame

#Picotron is my game engine of choice and my favorite computer. I'd love for more people to try it, and I hope that creating little tutorials will lower the boundary.

This video is about creating your very own desktop background, feel free to let me know what other stuff you'd like to see. Maybe I'll do a survivorslike next :)

#lexaloffle #tutorial #gamedev
https://youtu.be/iV6Ky3MOFT4

i don't know what happened recently, but all new thinkpads got that camera bump...

#thinkpad classic look is gone completely

let me know if you can recommend anything else.

i wrote a little time log parser in posix shell. it collects from all the files in my todo directory, selects all the lines formated like this...

# start-time stop-time project: task description
- 20260301-085700 20260301-095640 code: add log.sh

code	05:10:44
home	00:22:00
kids	00:42:40
meta	00:40:22

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

Spring desktop.

Finally back to Void again.

#unix

sooo this weekend I finally flashed #Meshtastic onto the #pager 🙌

HOT TIP, when they say "check that your cable isn't power-only", THERE'S A REASON THEY SAY THAT. if it doesn't work, check your cable.. swap it out.. try a different one... Ask me how I know 🙃

Anyway, once that was done, I was shocked to find that I was able to see 4-8 nodes online at any given point!

There's still SO much I don't know, but this is a fun little starter device IMHO.

#mesh #LilyGo

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A Lilygo T-Lora Pager, which is a small rectangular device that looks like, well, a pager, placed on a beige/orange desk mat. It has a gray case, black keys, and orange accents. I made the display colour be orange too, to match. 🤓 The device is showing a base Meshtastic screen: 5/5 Role: Client USA LongFast Freq906.875MHz ChlUtil 2% To the right, a light coloured keyboard.

I am always amazed by the expert mode of the SQLite CLI.

You type .expert
Then you paste your SQL query.
And #sqlite tells you which indexes you should create to speed up your query.

No AI, no complex program to install. No expensive database architect to pay for. It's just clever programming.

To my knowledge this is the only database in the world to have this feature.

https://sqlite.org/cli.html#index_recommendations_sqlite_expert_
https://sqlite.org/src/dir?ci=trunk&name=ext/expert

new sale, my biggest yet.
"Ok then: 50 pixel fonts for 50 dollars. How about that?"

https://itch.io/s/181080/ok-then-50-pixel-fonts-for-50-dollars-how-about-that

Just published the list of changes to the Hundred Rabbits projects for February!

https://100r.ca/site/home.html#feb2026

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a rabbit in a dress standing in front of a black board covered with Uxntal glyphs. An hommage to the painting Blackboard by Winslow Homer(1877)

#shell #cli

unfortunatelly, i don't have lua in #openbsd base and want to keep number of dependecies low. also imagemagick7 hasn't been ported to openbsd and building imagemagick7 from source is a bit tricky.

thinking to write something like ocular in posix shell or c99 with imagemagick6

#keyboard #svalboard

Okay, it's out.

Lena is a handmade framework for making tiny games with palette graphics.

It's software-rendered, cross-platform and comes with constraints that challenge your creativity without limiting your game's size and scope. It comes with batteries-included palette graphics, some novel palette-blending and drawing effects, a simple audio interface, text rendering, and loaders and decoders for assets. It also compiles and runs on:

🪟 Windows (Native)
🍏 macOS (Native)
🐧 Linux (via SDL3)
😖 WebAssembly (Native)

The core functionality of Lena is implemented from scratch in almost exactly 2,000 lines of Odin, and while I designed it as a fun little game jam framework for myself, I hope it can also serve as an interesting learning tool for people looking to delve deeper into low-level system and engine programming for video games.

🕹️ https://github.com/lichendust/lena

I'm releasing this as a version v0.0.0 on GitHub right now, with the hope of getting some feedback before declaring a truly API-stable 1.0.0 release.

#gamedev #programming #gameengine #odin #pixelart

So close to 10k wishlists on Steam!
Help an indie out? 🙏❤️
https://s.team/a/3675940

#indiedev #gamedev

via @cathos@merveilles.town

see also
demo

it's so touching to see real people make magic happen ❤️

see also
x1 carbon gen 11 by reyk
x1 carbon gen 9 by xosc
x1 nano gen 1 by jcs

i found a thread on community.mnt.re about openbsd status, but not sure if it is still valid.

thank you!

#smallweb #indieweb #shell

#ocular #lua #rss #smallweb #indieweb

pretty crazy this is a 20 year old machine!! i might daily drive this

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Screenshot of mac os x tiger running a bunch of applications and mastodon written this very post

🌱 Little AND gates and a flip-flop in #wireworld.
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/wireworld