Openbsd

OpenBSD 7.8 on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

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A few years ago, I ran OpenBSD 7.4 on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W . It was working quite nice as a DHCP and DNS server. But it froze too often for my linkings and I stopped using it. These days, that particular board is still not referenced on the official OpenBSD arm64 supported hardware list. Still, I gave it a try on OpenBSD 7.8.

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Running OpenBSD 7.8 on ODROID HC4

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Some times ago, I acquired an ODROID HC4 arm64 board and installed OpenBSD 7.2 on it. I used it for a moment but there were issues when running with two disks so I stopped using it. For $reasons, I took it out of its box and gave it another try using OpenBSD 7.8.

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Multiple keyboard layouts on OpenBSD

       930 words, 5 minutes

My ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 AMD has a French (ISO AZERTY). But it is connected to a dock and I mainly use an external (USB) keyboard with an ANSI US layout. Because I’d rather not type with an US layout on an FR keyboard, and vice-versa, I have configured my OpenBSD OS to deal with both, nearly automagically.

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Check your IP infos using nginx

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There are a few times when I want to check which public IP I am browsing from… I used to use the WhatsMyIP sites but the Internet being what it is these days, I switched to using my SearXNG instance which has the IP plugin enabled. Still, there are times I need to get my IP from a script and want a dead simple option for this. So I switched to using nginx and GeoLite2.

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Quick look on performance and power usage of Aoostar R1 N150

       2088 words, 10 minutes

I bought a noname 2 bays NAS that looks like the Aoostar R1 N150. And before putting it into production, I had a quick look on how it performs on various OSes and how many watts it eats.

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