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i just want to replace it with a few scripts and plain text logs. feels like all i need is to fetch price and weather forecasts and pull/push some modbus registers...
what do you use for your smart homes?
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@hi yeah the more my solar setup evolves the more I want to hand-roll the monitoring/dashboard part 
People have a lot of good to say about https://solar-assistant.io - it's a one-time-payment but I'm planning to look into it at some point.
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@hi iirc @hywan hand-rolled some (most?) of their stuff for https://lamaisonvivante.blog/
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@hi I'm *particularly* annoyed at how bad HA is at integrating weather (forecasting etc.) and other metadata. It feels like you could get a lot more out of your systems/batteries if you had better foresight into weather patterns.
Until I connected my car charger I didn't have any sufficient loads to keep my batteries from sitting at 100% at 8AM, but now that I do, intelligently dumping solar into the car's battery but making sure there is enough left in case of bad weather looming around the corner would be awesome.
And I will probably have to handroll it all 
similar to this setup, but with a trackpad not a mouse...
any ideas?
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(1) BIOS might not be accessible,
(2) It is not possible to do pairing with receiver on BSD, this can be worked around by running HirensBoot from USB.
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@hi FWIW once upon a time, there was a real computer, running a BSD system, plugged onto my TV to display DVD rips. I used a noname USB gamepad to navigate through the X11 GUI interface. Sorry, neither the pad brand, nor the home cinema software come back from far memories. Still this was a nice way, at that time, to drive the whole stuff.
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@hi my Logitech K410 works on OpenBSD. It has a touchpad. But it’s not mechanical.
Also, this https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/using-the-logitech-wireless-rechargeable-touchpad-t650-on-openbsd/ standalone touchpad works with OpenBSD.
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@hi there is also an "options to replace your old couch keyboard". No mention of OpenBSD support but there may be ideas for testings and send back if it fails ;-)
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after all i'm thinking about pebble 2 combo. all keyboards with trackpads tend to look a bit too cluttered for my taste. will try to survive without pointing device, but will get a mouse for emergencies :)
now i'm looking for m.2 modules (lte/5g and wifi ap) compatible with #openbsd. any recommendations?
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@hi I'm using a Quectel EP06-E in a USB/Mini PCIe enclosure it works well for the most part via umb(4). I have a few issues with it not reconnecting to the mobile network, still need to get to the bottom of them.
Not exactly what you're looking for, but perhaps that'll give some pointers.
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It rained tropically all day yesterday, so we didn't wander the woods, I stayed in and worked on my little OpenFirmware-inspired operating system.
It's capable enough that I've added it to uxn11 and uxn2, accessible with F4. A perfect little tool bounce in and out of roms, set a screen size for roms that don't, rename/delete files, peek at metadata, etc..
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/m_pc
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@hi If you have a disk that you're happy to have mounted read-only, then https://stable.rcesoftware.com/resflash/ could be useful!
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@hi It's great! I also like that the project's been going for many years, yet got updated for 7.9 straight away 
next up: build own micro-grid and automate export to the grid based on price and weather forecasts
i was thinking about a rowing machine for long time, but was not sure if there is enough space for it in my tiny home gym. this end up very well: rowerg is quite compact and light.
it's not as fun as running outdoors, but there are many pros for me:
- it shows my current heart rate in big digits (it supports garmin watch and heart rate monitor)
- works in any weather (winters are quite icy here for running every day, also there are no bears, wolves, or lynxes indoors)
- helps to do cardio more consistently (rowing is easier to start, no need to carry my phone, keys, head lamp, etc)
- perfect for full body warm up before lifing weights
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c2 rowerg
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so far we've presold 12x MNT Quasar 6490 modules, that's 50% of what we need to kick off the first batch. feel free to send me some promo ideas. should i make a video showing the general performance? who would be your favorite reviewer for the Quasar Pocket Reform?
see also
unix: a history and a memoir by brian kernighan
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summary--what's most important. to put my strongest concerns in a nutshell: 1. we should have some ways of coupling programs like garden hose--screw in another segment when it becomes necessary to massage data in another way
i'm very happy to present the first release of the Barebox bootloader tailored for MNT Pocket Reform with RK3588 processor, bringing you an advanced bootloader with graphics and comfy shell: https://source.mnt.re/reform/mnt-reform-barebox/-/releases/2026-06-18
this is the culmination of an 8-months part time effort, mostly by @ailurux who ported all the missing display drivers and did a lot of bugfixing and polishing, with some little spikes by myself here and there. also thanks to @a3f for the friendly support navigating @barebox code.
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3 seconds after powerup, an MNT logo+rainbow icon appears in the top right corner of the display
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the system will autoboot in 2 seconds, but if you press "m" (there's a prompt + countdown for that), you can enter the boot menu where you can select a system to boot or enter the shell.
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here i selected the bootsources menu which shows me some of the Debian Linux kernel versions installed. this also supports EFI and extlinux.
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the shell is quite unix/posix-like with commands like "ls", "cd", "cat" etc.there's a virtual filesystem, mounts and networking.
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@ailurux @a3f @barebox we also have a fixup script for booting the current OpenBSD aarch64 image including instructions to get started: https://source.mnt.re/reform/mnt-reform-barebox/-/blob/main/README-mnt.md#booting-openbsd
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can't remember if i shared this fun computer thing i made
it's a lil toy for interactively exploring 1-bit dither — including my beloved Atkinson dither from the MacPaint era — by playing with it like it's a board game
try it here, but note there's zero instruction and the UI is full of secrets: https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/dither-explorer/
or, more fun, watch me explain how it works by saying words and moving my hands a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vZcmWhTeOM&list=PLCC8lmauZTzeEP7mIsOOI4HKeeyBN2rIy&index=5&t=114s
trip out, have fun <3
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screenshot showing a dithered photo of some hands, above a little grid with a yellow 0,0 at the top-center surrounded by small grey circular tokens
The Dillo browser has an excellent directory of bookmarks! If you have ideas that might be a good fit, suggest them at the bottom of the page.
https://dir.dillo-browser.org/
3200 x 2400 @ 60 hz
0.69 kg
$719 color
$619 mono
https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-flow
I was missing a good image viewer to flip through folders with hundreds of chr and icn pixelart files, so I wrote one!
https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn-utils/tree/main/item/gui/image/src/image.tal
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A few images displayed through image.rom
Someone just demonstrated that the entire Uxn toolchain can be reconstructed from nothing but a POSIX shell, xxd and sed. It's down to taking 34 minutes to build the Uxntal assembler.
bootstrap: https://joe.cz/uxn/uxn1b-drifloon.txt
repo: https://gitlab.com/racketeer/uxnsh
#uxn
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OpenBSD 7.9 will be deployed on the hosts as soon as possible!
We want to wait for the first errata to appear.
21 new VMs were added and 61 VMs were renewed.
We donated €1125 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €66755 since we started.
Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!
Stay safe, healthy & sane!
#RUNBSD in 2026
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Phoebe Teaching Joey refers to a scene from the Friends television series in which character Phoebe Buffay attempts to teach character Joey Tribbiani French by making him repeat words after her. In March 2020, the scene gained popularity in memes online, with Phoebe attempting to explain various concepts to Joey but ultimately failing.
This one has the following exchange:
Phoebe: Just
Joey: Just
Phoebe: Update
Joey: Update
Phoebe: And
Joey: And
Phoebe: Shutdown
Joey: Update And Restart
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Illustrated tear-downs and break-downs of everyday products, like mechanical pencils, lighters and pez dispensers, that you may have taken for granted. Drawn by Bryan Macomber, a mechanical engineer and artist.
A really neat idea.
it works! it's just a bit smol on this high res screen
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openbsd fvwm retro glory on mnt pocket reform rk3588, but tiny
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# pkg_add qutebrowser#openbsd
got X running, but xrandr -o won't budge, need to figure out how to make a xorg.conf (this feels extremely retro) or how to install some wayland compositor
OpenBSD on MNT Pocket Reform (with RK3588)! next question: can it rotate the framebuffer console?
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it's OpenBSD installer on MNT Pocket Reform's display! but it is rotated into portrait mode
I made a zine, it's called Fractions Are Everything, it invites the reader into looking at fractions a little differently.
The typesetting is done entirely in #Uxn.
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/pocket_fractions
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8 pager, the cover is a AND gate with the primes 2 and 3, on one side, and 5 on the other.
BTW if you're looking for an open hardware, repairable laptop made by a small team in berlin with no venture capital, maybe MNT Reform Next could be interesting for you: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next
TFW you receive 14kWh of raw LFP battery cells 💙
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Four large cardboard boxes in the back of an SUV. They have large red "FRAGILE" stickers and "THIS SIDE UP" markings on them