2026-01-08T19:31:30Z https://nostr.ae selfhosting.couchsurfing https://nostr.ae/npub1gu27m9d8jdlk24cnqsprf8suduen274q0ycfljsuvcwxn0pjk0hqfwppsl https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/system/accounts/avatars/110/200/667/690/541/925/original/49eff86e10614feb.png https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/system/accounts/avatars/110/200/667/690/541/925/original/49eff86e10614feb.png https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsr6drlph7tu47jskux6fqr0rjgpafwxsk3cx6hqxp46tke4s4hcaqzypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7u9we5yz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgawexzy9v6q2q3snpal7ul3fhx20gc6cmx4tg5sgkeszm8jgeqrss9gda5'>nevent1q…gda5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ll add it and then see how fast the next &#39;sysupgrade auto&#39; goes. do you think the RasPi image should have it enabled by default? 2026-07-25T01:50:37Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs99mz8fcsyapzzvnn5qnnjm8stazya4z5cdmmlpvdgt3ejtw8zg3gzypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7u6mr9w5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg65dggqgtqvjsk7xjq0ne9z8r7ggr35runum2msxcltvnf0uya0s9fy8kx'>nevent1q…y8kx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>rw,noatime,discard<br/><br/>should I be using &#39;log&#39;? FWIW, this is the official Raspberry Pi 1 image written to the SD card, so AFAIK it&#39;s not set in that image. 2026-07-24T19:39:42Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgcgkx6zuv43vs9h9k68t2tq278elgr07lynu8tncjnz39jkel0rszypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7u05ju8c In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr3ld8gcqdztnhku3c5m29w73t5w0cugjrmmesa0ns0nv9qyvx99cefg025'>nevent1q…g025</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it eventually slowed down again to the same speed. weird. few big vs many small files maybe?<br/><br/>I have my doubts that this is due to the SD card but I suppose that&#39;s possible too. 2026-07-24T01:11:43Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsr3ld8gcqdztnhku3c5m29w73t5w0cugjrmmesa0ns0nv9qyvx99czypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7u8j4z5l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs26zd77y03t7ff4trrpnew089vcqjx0xe4jvx0s3mqchcuva2gnysn2y3m7'>nevent1q…y3m7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>interesting, it just got done extracting &#39;base&#39; and now it&#39;s extracting &#39;comp&#39; at 4x the speed 👀 2026-07-24T00:57:33Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs26zd77y03t7ff4trrpnew089vcqjx0xe4jvx0s3mqchcuva2gnyszypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7u7rmzmp I&#39;m using &#39;sysupgrade&#39; to update my RasPi1 from #NetBSD 11.0rc4 to 11.0rc7 and the extraction of the sets is very slow, at about 0.5 MiB/sec. it&#39;s not CPU bound and this is on a brand new industrial SD card.<br/><br/>I have to wonder if there aren&#39;t a ton of optimizations left on the floor somewhere in the data path of the type which tend to end up added to Linux because the codebase has a ton of eyeballs on it. 2026-07-24T00:54:58Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg9un7nnxelscrn5xcfdvvm7g00fng05qcptgdm6n6wavp438zzxqzypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7u7hhkl2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqu53ke80hfajg23zxr4ld25svj65q8djamv54l02ltpjgk8rguzs54qcfa'>nevent1q…qcfa</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>in fact a RasPi 1 that I got 15 years ago is now running NetBSD as my first foray into the BSD world, I got a MLC industrial SD card for it which cost almost as much as the Pi did so I don&#39;t have to worry about flash wear for years. planning to have it watch my UPSes and switch power for my #CouchLab. 2026-07-17T17:38:21Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxqyt7zw32uazdfjtxsg0nr0jt2wl6xu45y9qmu5k0azcpwx2dkuszypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7uyuv3ed In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy00vghlhqrsgs2lc2k88yt0h30lrjzfntch8qz5j0rd8c7tgt7ccus2xu5'>nevent1q…2xu5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>very nice, I&#39;m still pretty new to using LXQt on lightweight systems and VMs, coming from BunsenLabs. so I barely customize it thus far. but I would like to be able to thwack the super key and type and have it search the menu, etc. 2026-07-12T19:38:39Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9xcj7hjwfjdjqp0kngc6tlhkvmhxtj8a6alryf37uk3s34gtqtsczypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7uwafd3v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszswdqlmq8faftz0hs0zhuj9yw054qkjrdly7etmhxaja909pmftcwn6hxy'>nevent1q…6hxy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>paging <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1n3s0afa524us25lenufdp8rsl77adz49d2xuvg42wspmafwgy6fq0nq9zv" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Yogthos</span> (<span class="italic">npub1n3s…q9zv</span>)</a></span> 😅 2026-06-18T17:38:36Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszznvm73gew2mn5errd5hx4r3f9cnuek9yjqwnd2h3cwla9kxl2zczypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7u7pdta9 smolBSD is a tiny BSD UNIX (NetBSD) system creation tool, primarily aimed at building modern, lightweight, fast micro VMs.<br/><br/><a href="https://smolbsd.org/">https://smolbsd.org/</a><br/><br/>#NetBSD #microVM #BSD #containers 2026-06-05T23:49:32Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs83urkmqwn6hny85fu562e6y5jfxyayhqturvq7u9mvn6t8zmn8rqzypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7ujr250n looking for ADHD body doubling / accountability buddy / check-in partner who uses XMPP, Delta Chat, or Signal, who wants to do mutual encouragement on mundane shit and/or Dreaded Tasks 2026-06-03T03:08:20Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp7ncxdyp9jmqnfxm7crhr7lnw4ph7yrakg695w8d8g9m9huzur8qzypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7uymg4ke In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszypfnr36xxv25p62k32a0gdaewdht49p26fwezal7wlpreyl0sjg7h73fz'>nevent1q…73fz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&gt; Hister<br/><br/>The browser extension silently captures and indexes every page you visit. Your entire browsing history becomes searchable without any manual effort.<br/><br/>👀<br/><br/>this is exactly what I have been trying to do manually with ArchiveBox 2026-05-24T18:47:22Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszene9r3ak76akkfz8444sc4y6etc8fanfpd5czyk68256ctwqlgszypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7u02gffq so, anybody who pays attention to my activity on here can see I&#39;ve been less active lately, I have been having problems, that&#39;s just how it goes when living a life like this near the bottom of the economic pile. nevertheless I&#39;m grateful for the assistance I receive and know there is room for improvement in how I cope with bullshit.<br/><br/>chatting with a friend about it, I had this observation: the other nice thing for me is that I&#39;ve put so much work into rebuilding the system that keeps me aware of what to do, that it&#39;s all right there waiting for me after every time I fall on my face, so I can pick back up much faster and forget fewer important things (like the appointment I would&#39;ve missed 2 days from now if I didn&#39;t have this in place)<br/><br/>...this is all built on free software and set up to be resilient and cost almost nothing to maintain, including the hidden cost of adapting to pointless change and selling out your behavioral profile if you do the same thing with Google. it took me years to get as far as I&#39;ve gotten with it, and it&#39;s good to be here. big shout out to the Tasks.org guy (who&#39;ll never see this), I&#39;ve sent him a few bucks in XMR lately. still planning to do a video on that app, it&#39;s a lifesaver with DavX5 and a CalDAV storage backend of one&#39;s choosing. 2026-05-06T19:50:39Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw3rdjp5nhdkappfkn54us9yrkg5vwas5p568e7v88ep6k0qn2zcszypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7uw3mua9 got a replacement fan+heatsink unit coming in tomorrow for the Thinkpad, which I&#39;ve mostly been using in a very reduced way so it doesn&#39;t overheat when the fan temporarily seizes up. 2026-04-21T03:48:34Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspt69jttmn8y728v7qnn4e2rfjqs2dazkcvyd6rmqr5xe2yyd3cfszypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7u0eds6x I think the bearing in the fan in my Thinkpad T480 died after years of occasional misbehavior. gonna be another step toward a Ship of Theseus situation, fortunately replacements are like 20 bucks on ebay. I don&#39;t *have* 20 bucks right now but at least it&#39;s not a stretch.<br/><br/>also, after my last disassembly, the front of the top panel doesn&#39;t want to snap into the body of the laptop fully... gotta take it apart and see if any clips broke, but <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1mt7rh4alr6qghdvr5wdxuwpsnsz7xf9jfk6r4ahs8xdersa9575q2w07dq" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>matthew - retroedge.tech</span> (<span class="italic">npub1mt7…07dq</span>)</a></span> I&#39;m curious if you have any tips on that... 2026-04-09T02:24:16Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvd3ky2zp9nw0gfuddlara3yvlwca6p72lncjxqnf8mvv47aaj7gszypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7u4v6fyh okay, brief update on setting up the Intel 10500T server:<br/><br/>the 3D-printed 2.5&#34; drive caddy is indeed too tall for some unknown reason, but with the SSD&#39;s top cover removed, the entire assembly juuust barely fits under the lid of the PC&#39;s chassis.<br/><br/>also, not only does the UEFI see the drive in the eSATA enclosure (connected via a SATA adapter in the m.2 2230 wifi card slot), it offers to boot from it. nice.<br/><br/>a quick memtest passed, so next I&#39;ll wipe these drives and install Proxmox.<br/><br/>at some point I will likely figure out what the issue is with the caddy, because I&#39;d like to be able to share my design on one or another 3D model sharing site for anybody looking to do this with a gen6 thru gen9 Intel HP EliteDesk Micro... 2026-03-25T02:47:03Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsz24ycfz6pfqqv8s59wz5hm7wwd69u64xsx52fcka5j54dwv38u9qzypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7uwmhd37 my housemate 3d printed my first-ever edit of an object file for such a purpose, a 2.5&#34; drive caddy.<br/><br/>I think it got vertically exaggerated by a few millimeters though, there may not be enough clearance for the drive under the chassis cover, even when I remove the drive housing which I will do since the drive is an SSD and is like 1/3 the size of its housing - this will leave the space above the cutout section free for that SATA connector/cable to exist in.<br/> <img src="https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/system/media_attachments/files/116/285/873/159/591/174/original/a6277525f6a795cb.png"> <br/> <img src="https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/system/media_attachments/files/116/285/890/147/015/539/original/badc6fb255b317dd.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/system/media_attachments/files/116/285/895/463/929/103/original/b348707011eaf575.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/system/media_attachments/files/116/285/909/942/722/615/original/deb1a100ee29c13b.jpg"> <br/> 2026-03-24T19:58:38Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspyytfrydl6vk8w69utyw78sd5jy2y9gwlsmp0zyafnyefvshngfszypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7uk70tyx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw68qjhun4ym8v7fvcgw6gh3c7gt67tzdej0m7xk9v28eej2r0wtg5hg5rs'>nevent1q…g5rs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>that said, I also don&#39;t use ZFS (which supposedly wants ECC) and I don&#39;t have a ton of database activity going on. 2026-02-24T20:20:23Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw68qjhun4ym8v7fvcgw6gh3c7gt67tzdej0m7xk9v28eej2r0wtgzypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7uwfwph4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsplrmy9hkaapnewdv7x33yd92y6y4tstmgxfumy9lf7q097mh8agqqa7rzq'>nevent1q…7rzq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>no, crash meaning the VM/LXC locks up or hangs and I have to reboot it. I haven&#39;t suffered any noticeable data loss from an unexplained crash like this yet.<br/><br/>I probably have more than 10x the number of explainable crashes (memory starvation, kernel bugs, ill-behaved software) than I do ones which are mysterious and never repeated which could conceivably be due to a bit flip. my suspicion is that the mysterious ones are mostly not bit-flips either, but I don&#39;t have the time or energy to investigate further so I just reboot and move on, keeping an eye on the system for a while.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve also never had an unexplainable hypervisor crash in ... wow, over 5 years now of 24/7 operation with multiple machines all on office-grade commodity hardware without ECC. 2026-02-24T20:14:02Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsru6967rq3y722yupj9379rfp2f48x7lg20k4f96wfajjtufluf5gzypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7uajv28f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxc9g7mq4r9vl2mk9gqya2afr2nrnl2lfkpf2xd8wcz5krvzhva8guw8jg4'>nevent1q…8jg4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m not using ECC and at the moment - rough estimate - I&#39;d say I have about 1 crash a year across ~30 VMs and containers that seems mysterious and non-repeatable enough to possibly have something to do with cosmic rays. 2026-02-24T19:18:11Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0vgxz06dq5my4ns8dsummpzvax3zqyvy9j039sewdh5zz9drfe0czypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7ut6kwgs the #Syncthing Android drama is exploding.<br/><br/><a href="https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/issues/16">https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android/issues/16</a><br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1mtrk3vl7546q9c4lf0k62nkaypanv6t95gyh32f5jp63ffalu98s4mtrt0" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>F-Droid</span> (<span class="italic">npub1mtr…trt0</span>)</a></span> at this point is being used to push out an app with sensitive permissions that&#39;s been taken over by an unknown individual who refuses to engage with its large community of users and developers.<br/><br/>I STRONGLY recommend disabling updates from Fdroid, if not uninstalling and manually installing 2.0.11.2, or installing the Google Play version which has a different maintainer.<br/><br/>this is extremely shady and it&#39;s just looking worse as time goes on. I&#39;ll link to the Syncthing forum thread from about where I left off last time in a subsequent post.<br/><br/>#SyncthingFork #SyncthingAndroid 2025-12-06T19:19:31Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswnhvvadgu4g62wtahyrjcr25zt8kcxtk5ruffqrcqr9t9vxqk89czypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7uhe53h0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9eauwuyeujd6wg55edgkzlx0vmzq2n9jr9hy6vq967dkgyn7pd3qhqzjvu'>nevent1q…zjvu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>name and shame please 2025-10-17T23:45:23Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfq4kvw44g8d8x4akfg4mglxe0swcs3345fuy8e8ucrnh7xp8h5kczypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7uyqy7mx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdfxzgqmrentdd2c6zm20mv9qlytpd2xjj3vea4sc0q4jnee5afug8fjl9p'>nevent1q…jl9p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>ohh okay this is good to know - there&#39;s no ad-hoc backporting like with LineageOS devices that still have maintainers? 2025-04-12T23:55:23Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgdxycrqcx3exnzhj30cjszpswt0h635qh3wcs2pwal89jat7d0rszypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7uw3smea thinking ahead to my next phone running <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1kwarc5z9lwhen05uknd2nuwhhthd4ws0cku3t9j3rchm0fcd6luslse0nj" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>GrapheneOS</span> (<span class="italic">npub1kwa…e0nj</span>)</a></span> - anybody got opinions on Pixel 6a vs Pixel 7 (those exact models)?<br/><br/>I&#39;m looking for a phone that will last for years, where I can replace the battery without too high a risk of breaking the device. I&#39;m currently satisfied with the horsepower of a Poco F1 with Snapdragon 845 and 6GB RAM.<br/><br/>I&#39;m really leery of the lack of microSD, but I want to try #GrapheneOS as a daily driver, so. #surfhosting 2025-04-12T23:34:37Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstvkcnnxuk2sf2trge64rlr3za30lvvjf3z8d46s9mq28sthdhshszypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7urthxms In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvvmzh82q8tpemvytrmlpad92upll2tc5dj9lwlaz4qp8exgx539ggth2jn'>nevent1q…h2jn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I never owned Macs in the days when AppleTalk really reigned, but I do remember using netatalk with no Macs at all for a while 2024-09-17T05:28:57Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx2w2rwcec760sm39wu3j8mj826aan6hkwg22829f2xh9szsw6ejczypr3tmv457fh7e2hzvzqydy7r3hnxdt65punp872r3npc6dux2e7unfus7l just read some AI slop about using VPN tap devices in cases where you might want to forward traffic other than IP, such as Banyan VINES 2024-09-17T05:22:35Z