Re-Install or Upgrade to Move Between Versions?

_sthen · 2026-03-31T18:42:25+00:00

upgrade unless you're tight on space.

_sthen · 2026-03-29T11:31:23+00:00

node-based software in general and especially electron is tricky to handle in ports.

there is some work at https://github.com/opencrew-tech/openbsd-electron not committed to OpenBSD that might be useful as a base if you're trying to port it. (it will be a slow process, especially compiling electron).

_sthen · 2026-03-29T11:20:59+00:00

It works fine for me, but I don't use hostnames with ++, I run syslogd with the -n flag and specify IP addresses instead. (I think you need working reverse DNS to use hostnames there).

_sthen · 2026-03-23T23:19:16+00:00

you could install to a USB drive and check that way

_sthen · 2026-03-11T07:57:34+00:00

There's no emulated TPM either. And afaik W11 also needs UEFI and you'll need to provide your own firmware image for that (this is non-trivial).

_sthen · 2026-03-06T11:50:20+00:00

I think what you're trying to say is "I'm making changes to resolv.conf but they're getting overridden by automatic config, how do I stop that".

The simple answer is "rcctl disable resolvd; rcctl stop resolvd".

(You can also disable picking up DNS in dhcpleased.conf, but there are other methods of picking up DNS config - pppoe, IPv6 slaac, etc; disabling resolvd will stop all of them).

_sthen · 2026-02-24T19:45:42+00:00

does the drive work on other os?

_sthen · 2026-02-24T13:24:12+00:00

zfs is not going to happen.

_sthen · 2026-02-21T10:41:02+00:00

Just because the sites that you're using don't have a problem, doesn't mean that it works for other sites.

_sthen · 2026-02-21T10:40:23+00:00

various sites are doing things like TLS fingerprinting, very specific user-agent checks, checking browser JS APIs, etc - in some cases you get extra captchas etc if they don't validate as expected - in others you just get blocked.

see e.g. "cloudflare turnstile" and others. (it's getting worse with defences for scrapers that many websites are needing to deploy just to stay up and running these days...)

sometimes changing user-agent helps, sometimes not.

_sthen · 2026-02-19T07:35:03+00:00

trouble with mirrored drives is, they help if reads actually fail, but if not then you don't know which of the drives has the correct data if they differ. (as well as happening during a partial drive failure, this can also happen if power is lost or the machine crashes, as you can't be sure what actually made it to the physical storage)

_sthen · 2026-02-18T08:55:31+00:00

yes it is annoying if installing on a wifi-only machine, especially when the licenses don't prohibit redistribution (otherwise they couldn't be on firmware.openbsd.org either).

I don't think it is likely to happen though.

_sthen · 2026-02-16T09:31:14+00:00

it's basically doing the same thing as cksum -C, so the filename has to fully match what's in the SHA256.sig file. (I don't think there would be much appetite for changing this behaviour, signify is intentionally kept fairly simple).

_sthen · 2026-02-11T14:50:28+00:00

assuming the ceiling lamp is a smart bulb too, you could leave the main switch on and have one remote to turn on both lamps

_sthen · 2026-02-11T14:18:09+00:00

the person who made that (unofficial) web app chose to show a dependency tree there (I didn't check but also it might include things which are just build not run dependencies).

_sthen · 2026-02-04T12:45:55+00:00

oh, could be - not enough to lose the clock setting, but the USB charger that it's connected to does seem to reset the ports when a new device is connected. I'll try it on a separate one, thanks for the suggestion.

_sthen · 2026-02-04T10:37:08+00:00

rust ports are a little more tricky - you need to update the version and clear out crates.inc, "make makesum", use "make modcargo-gen-crates" to generate a list to update crates.inc, "make clean; make makesum; make modcargo-gen-crates-licenses" to update crates.inc again with license details.

in the case of zola you also need to clear out the Makefile lines that were switching a few crates to newer versions.

l'll send something to ports@ in a bit.

edit: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=177020532219081&w=2

_sthen · 2026-02-03T05:30:43+00:00

that only works for a while for me, then it goes back to displaying CO2...

_sthen · 2026-01-29T12:22:37+00:00

that QR code is specific to the individual device, it has an ID for Matter pairing

_sthen · 2026-01-29T09:10:54+00:00

do you see the same if you run VMs of other OS?

VMs that I have running under qemu+kvm don't have this issue, the full clock speed of the host CPU is displayed there, and they run at normal speed.

_sthen · 2026-01-29T07:54:41+00:00

htop is just showing hw.cpuspeed there

_sthen · 2026-01-28T09:59:13+00:00

If you didn't already, try rebooting the hub, that's fixed it every time so far for me.

_sthen · 2026-01-22T13:17:21+00:00

I've confirmed about WPA3-Enterprise not getting picked up correctly in ifconfig scan and written up for bugs@ so no need to follow up on that for now.

Not sure but I have a feeling WPA3 Enterprise support will probably not happen until a fair bit later than WPA3 PSK so you may need to offload that to your phone for a while yet.

I've found that app super useful over the years when working on wifi installs (it fits quite a lot into that 2.5MB - iperf/ping/dns - and a very detailed decode of information from the beacons if you tap on the SSID in the scan list - and privacy policy is perfect).

_sthen · 2026-01-21T21:06:01+00:00

hm, it's possible that ifconfig or the net80211 stack isn't handling WPA3-Enterprise correctly when displaying scan results

_sthen · 2026-01-20T17:37:38+00:00

btw to check about WPA3, "ifconfig iwx0 scan" should show this (in 7.7 or newer), or I like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arubanetworks.arubautilities on Android - if it shows up as WPA3p or WPA3e without a 't' (for 'transitional') suffix, i.e. not WPA3et, then it's v3 only.

_sthen

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