@hi 👋🫶

@hi Tere!

@hi Hi! And thanks a lot for all the great OpenBSD-related advice you provide - it's much appreciated!

@hi I'm a computer programmer. I've wanted to do this since I was six years old, and I get to work on really interesting/challenging stuff (3D reconstruction, GNSS mapping, a bunch of 2D rendering, that kind of stuff).

This is very much due to the job I have. I've worked at another company before that burned me out enough to have me stare into space seriously wondering if I made a mistake going into IT more than once.

@hi@romanzolotarev.com

@hi voted "long term" but only because of the many people I'm lucky to have in my life that know i can turn to.

No illusions, there were very many points in the last 20 years where, if not for family and friends, I'd certainly be homeless, and quite possibly dead.

@bigzaphod I’m a bit jealous every time you post about your solar generation. My panels still have a foot of snow on them 🫠 Come onnnnn, spring! Stop being so slow!

I'm sure that those equivalents are making an assumption about the energy production from the power company being coal or natural gas or something, but my power company is around 50% renewable with 40% of it wind power, if I remember right. As slow as they were with the paperwork and approvals, I'm pretty happy with how hard they've been working to reduce coal and natural gas.

@hi Amaya I ask your approach to siloing apps within profiles? I am still trying to wrap my head around that.

@hi

If you install the Google Pixel camera app (I recommend revoking its network permission permanently before running it the first time), you will have a much better camera experience, although it won't help when you use the camera inside other apps.

@nina_kali_nina

But ... what is the actual boot loader then, and where does it live?

Okay, I failed spectacularly, with NetBSD installer rewriting the installer system on the install USB stick :D Oh well, at least my real disk is alive and well (for now)

@nina_kali_nina I wonder what smaller OSs you're trying. Anything worth knowing? I've tried many lesser known ones over the last couple of years. So many didn't boot. Most of the remaining ones were not in a state that made you want to write or port software for them. Few remain on my (mental) list of smaller OSs worth knowing. I'd like to expand that list if possible.

@kenshirriff Have you seen any of Alexander the OK,s videos on YouTube? if not have a look you might find them interesting.

@kenshirriff Fantastic!

@kenshirriff

Amazing but where did they keep they pigeons? 😩

@kenshirriff stuff like this reminds me of 2 things:
1 The Antikytheria mechanism.
2 A short story (by Heinlein I think) I read many years ago, about the problems of building a spacecraft in a civilisation that has not discovered electricity.

Poc :

@mvhorlo

Une autre forme d'"horlogerie"

@kenshirriff

@kenshirriff very cool

@kenshirriff Welcome to the root physics of gyroscopic measures; brought to you by Spin Physics.

Milankovitch would be proud.

@kenshirriff @siracusa wasn’t there an SR-71 story about it this not working in the southern hemisphere? Or they couldn’t fit both halves in memory or some such?

@kenshirriff is this the same one that was in the SR-71?

@kenshirriff #AnalogComputing

@kenshirriff I was wondering if satellite constellations fucks this up? I think these are still in use and given a dooms day scenario, it's likely anti-SAT weapons will be used and GPS may be jammed or useless.

@kenshirriff i read this as Apple Computer somehow

@mntmn heellll yeah!

@mntmn sounds exciting .. subscribed ✅ @crowdsupply

@mntmn @crowdsupply Finally an arm desktop (not made by Apple) with decent specs!

@mntmn congrats on the prelaunch! ~~out of curiosity, did you ever consider adding PoE headers?~~ ah, nvm, I thought this was a different PCB design, PoE on a laptop motherboard is admittedly a pretty niche feature.

@mntmn @crowdsupply

Do you have any info on the expected price range for this yet?

@mntmn @crowdsupply congrats!

@mntmn @crowdsupply so freaking cool, congrats to the team on getting the crowdsupply page up!

@crowdsupply BTW we've been using a bunch of these internally for development for a while already (for example as a dev setup for Quasar), and it's been really handy

@mntmn @crowdsupply Very interesting device! Thrilled to see where this is going :)

@mntmn @crowdsupply
No expansion slots and only USB-C power means it's just like the MoBo in an all-in-one PC.

More use than a Rasberry Pi, but less use than a compact workstation with a couple of PCI-e slots or a real laptop (integrated screen and UPS).

It's too small.

@mntmn I do like the idea of router, but needs more gbit ethernet

@mntmn
Will there be a version with 2x ethernet some day? For routers it
is good to have 2.
@crowdsupply

@mntmn It's going to be so tempting to replace the MNT Station's lid with a small ortholinear keyboard PCB. 👀💦 Turn it into a proper little wedge computer.

@mntmn it would be nice if there were a PCIe slot where one could choose to plug a quad-NIC or a multi SATA/NVMe adapter; depending on the need for a firewall/router or a NAS.

@mntmn @crowdsupply any chance of getting one of these without a processor module?

I have two modules at the moment

@mntmn Those cases just look absolutely gorgeous

@mntmn @crowdsupply nice news 🔥🔥

@mntmn @crowdsupply Looking great, those will definitely find use in many homelabs and will allow 'recycling' hardware.

I am personally awaiting MNT Rack: 1U / 2U / 4U cases: place one or multiple MNT Stations in there, along with options for modular nvme/U.2/SSD/HDD blocks, PCI bus block for eg GPU or network cards.... but then MNT has to expand production rapidly as with a decent price lots of people will want those :)

@mntmn @crowdsupply

I am an ECC junkie for server use. LS1028A has ECC support but not the module you sell?

@mntmn @crowdsupply wish I had the need for a new pc or the money for one, but if both those conditions line up, I'd love to buy what yall are doing

these look great!!

@nina_kali_nina have you considered Mia Rose as your desktop environment?

I can stretch loooon, maybe I can cover a lot of your desk

@nina_kali_nina can't speak firsthand to its gayness, but Haiku seems like it might fit your other criteria

@nina_kali_nina
OpenBSD! (But OTOH how would I know, being old and cis and straight and probably a troublemaker)

@nina_kali_nina i mean, i am hardly the expert, but you seem to have picked like the two least gay options.

@nina_kali_nina OpenBSD is Canadian

@nina_kali_nina FreeBSD? Is that still a thing? Saw a screenshot once, and wanted to fuck it.

@nina_kali_nina NetBSD, but with a pride flag. 🥳✨🏳️‍🌈
GayBSD fork ETA when?!

@nina_kali_nina I have no idea wrt an answer to this, but will watch with curiosity.

@nina_kali_nina fairly usable and bsd?

@nina_kali_nina ... now that you made me think about it, OpenBSD looks gayer, but NetBSD looks queerer...

@nina_kali_nina why not FreeBSD? It’s a while since I last looked at BSDs, but I believe FreeBSD was the more desktop oriented one, that and Dragonfly.

IMHO NetBSD is kind of a “research” project these days. Not sure anyone uses it in anger, or as a desktop OS.

@nina_kali_nina HaikuOS? it starts getting software now with QT (I think)

@nina_kali_nina This is like asking which shovel is more like a love sonnet.

(For the record, I voted NetBSD because they have greater platform diversity, which seems philosophically gayer?)

@nina_kali_nina I did not expect this. Does that mean it's straight, or is everyone gay? 😅

Alt...

50% for both

@nina_kali_nina Super curious how your experience goes. I've gotten BSD-curious in the past and these were the two I settled on as what I might want to use.

But then, you know, learning a new system and everything. I just didn't have the spoons for it at the time.

@nina_kali_nina @nuttx, kolibrios, @redox - plenty of choices to try after BSD flavors 🙂

@nina_kali_nina NETBSD works on the Wii and (I think) Amiga. Seems pretty gay to me (also pretty Gary, as my phone insisted)

@nina_kali_nina plan9 is downright homosexual

@nina_kali_nina trans rights. :3

@nina_kali_nina it might be a struggle in some ways but I think you would have a good time with NetBSD

@nina_kali_nina netbsd is notorious for running on anything. Strong pan energy.