Openbsd
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.Continue reading...
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.Continue reading...
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.Continue reading...
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.Continue reading...
One of my OpenBSD server provides DHCP and DNS resolving for my home LAN. But it sometimes has to go into maintenance mode. And if an IoT or phone requires an IP address or an FQDN at the precise moment, I hear screaming throughout the whole house.
So I decided to have fully redundant network services using two OpenBSD servers.Continue reading...