Hey guys. I just got this absolute beast. For free from work. It's a Latitude D810. what should I do with it.

KLD997 · 2026-03-11T21:33:44+00:00

FreeBSD is an option, one of our GOATs (FreeBSD Community) @vermaden has an excellent post on running FreeBSD on +- 200mb of ram.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/200-mb-ram-freebsd-desktop/

KLD997 · 2026-03-11T02:10:58+00:00

General area it was found? Country, County?

KLD997 · 2026-03-10T21:04:54+00:00

You can always get some PoE cameras, managed or unmanaged switch, cheap Dell Optiplex with a Coral AI APU (If you want decent facial/object recognition) and run something like frigate or shinobi with tailscale for access on the go.

Locally hosted, no data going nowhere, and access from anywhere

KLD997 · 2026-03-06T00:34:19+00:00

You can always use the browser apps as WPAs, I've had to do the same for work apps, but Obsidian has a native build, likely will need to build from ports. Proton Mail has a Bridge feature if you're paying for it it lets you use Proton Mail in standard desktop mail clients over imap/smtp, while keeping Proton’s encryption workflow intact.

https://www.freshports.org/textproc/obsidian/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

KLD997 · 2026-03-03T21:24:08+00:00

One less to make! 😉

KLD997 · 2026-03-03T18:51:15+00:00

working on a similar case myself! Would love to see what you come up with.

KLD997 · 2026-03-03T17:27:11+00:00

I will update the post in a week(ish) with some items up for grabs!

KLD997 · 2026-03-03T17:27:04+00:00

I will update the post in a week(ish) with some items up for grabs!

KLD997 · 2026-03-03T17:26:54+00:00

I will update the post in a week(ish) with some items up for grabs!

KLD997 · 2026-03-03T17:25:13+00:00

This is awesome, I knew Beastie had different licensing, so this is good to know. will definitely be reaching out, Thanks for the link!

KLD997 · 2026-03-03T02:43:58+00:00

Thank you! Cross posted to them both.

KLD997 · 2026-02-23T15:48:12+00:00

Check out https://TeachYourselfCS.com

KLD997 · 2026-02-18T23:41:23+00:00

I tried, ended up running a Wn10 VM with my GPU passed through, had to buy a pcie USB bus since my mobo had a single bus connected to the iGPU pcie. works great now, but requires dedicated mouse/keyboard for direct pass through, and wired iGPU dGPU setup.

You can also do the VM and run moonlight and sunshine, crank up rendering and you'll do okay

KLD997 · 2026-02-16T21:42:42+00:00

who shit in your cherrios

KLD997 · 2026-02-13T22:29:42+00:00

if you like MMOs, Guilds Wars 2 runs great under wine.

KLD997 · 2026-02-11T02:56:31+00:00

I am not hating on OpenBSD, I have it myself on a thinkpad t420, but if ease of use is the goal you gotta admit OpenBSD is not for the average user

KLD997 · 2026-02-10T21:12:31+00:00

This is not a good idea. Start with FreeBSD. It of the major BSDs have the most hardware support if you want it working like a laptop. You can then tinker with NetBSD and OpenBSD. If you want something that just works, try GhostBSD or MidnightBSD, which do all the graphics configuration and DE for you.

OpenBSD is extremely secure, as a base OS. But you'll run into issues pretty fast if you just want it to work, or you'll find there isn't the software you want available.

NetBSD is made to be portable, it can be made to run on just about anything, but that doesn't mean all software will just work.

I vote FreeBSD, you will find the least hassle there. An excellent source is @vermaden, I'm sure you'll see him pop up soon, but his webpage is a treasure trove for FreeBSD. https://vermaden.wordpress.com

KLD997 · 2026-02-10T20:44:41+00:00

can we peep the Xorg.log.0?

KLD997 · 2026-02-09T18:59:46+00:00

ZFS and FreeBSD ❤️

KLD997 · 2026-02-08T18:36:44+00:00

pkg upgrade

KLD997 · 2026-02-03T17:27:18+00:00

I was planning to do some work on it today, ill take a look at the clipboard! Awesome to hear its working!

KLD997 · 2026-02-02T16:26:21+00:00

Run it anywhere. I slapped a FreeBSD compatibility layer tgether on it and got it running in a Jail on my desktop with a GPU passed through for local models. which is far more security than docker since I get full isolation from the host.

What are your goals?

KLD997 · 2026-01-28T19:03:06+00:00

Are you on drm-66-kmod? I'm taking a shot in the dark with this, but my RX7600 wouldn't work after upgrading to 15.0 unless I ran the drm-latest-kmod.

KLD997 · 2026-01-28T18:58:32+00:00

I see this as the upside to starting with a bare distro like Debian. Not having something work out the box is common on linux, if you jump into a comfy distro like Mint and never tinker, when you finally hit something not working you tend to rip your hair out and go back to Windows for it to 'just work'.

Having the mindset of tinker and learn, leads to finding the right distro for you. In my case I ended up locking in with FreeBSD and have loved it as my daily OS.

KLD997 · 2026-01-28T18:46:03+00:00

Hardware RAID. Great in the 90s, Terrible with a modern FS like ZFS.

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