Vim alternatives on OpenBSD

       2315 words, 11 minutes

I’ve been using vi like forever. I was never an Emacs guy and I can’t stand nano and alike. The only other editors I use are Mousepad and Vim.

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M715q power usage and the BSDes

       995 words, 5 minutes

Following previous post where using M720q as a desktop machine was considered not that good, someone on the Fediverse pointed me to the AMD versions of ThinkCentre. Having noticed that ATI/AMD/Radeon GPU do seem to work pretty well on OpenBSD, I got a refurbished ThinkCentre M715q and had a look at it.

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What about ThinkCentre M710q, M720q and *BSD

       1457 words, 7 minutes

Thanks to being subscribed to self-hosting and homelab feeds, I yet again was trapped by compulsive buying and collector’s impulse while browsing the local refurb marketplaces. This may end now. Until then, here’s a quick look at ThinkCentre M710q and M720q on various BSD systems.

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Overview of AOOSTAR WTR Pro on *BSD

       2263 words, 11 minutes

Finding a NAS that provides NVMe and SATA storage while being tiny enough to sit in my 10" rack, have a CPU that’s not hogging, use a small amount of watts and offers usage of a non-proprietary OS is not simple. Especially when you have the “must run any BSD” to the equation. But here we are, the AOOSTAR WTR Pro Ryzen edition meets all my prerequisites. And here’s what I discovered.

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Linux Containers (LXC) on Slackware

       2603 words, 13 minutes

I went to a trip for replacing my $HOME FreeBSD server with loads of jails and Linux containers with some Slackware Linux server with… isolated applications; $REASONS don’t matter much.

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