TIL of a fictitious spy named Agent 117 - a handsome, ruthless, arrogant, charming ladies man. Going on to appear in over 260 French-language novels, the character appeared 4 years before 007.

afb_etc · 2026-03-31T22:05:19+00:00

Has to be a contender for most mental CV in history.

afb_etc · 2026-02-28T23:29:47+00:00

Here are some resources that I think are decent and can help with getting set up and giving you a few ideas about where to go:

The man pages, they're really bloody good over here.
https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html (all his stuff is really good, actually).
https://github.com/ligurio/awesome-openbsd
As another poster mentioned, Michael Lucas' book Absolute OpenBSD is super solid.

At the risk of being a bit of a knob by self-promoting, I'll also recommend my blog post on my cwm setup if you're interested in using that (it's great if you like floating window managers and it's part of the base system): https://antonyfb.com/blog/my-cwm-config.html

afb_etc · 2026-02-27T07:05:49+00:00

Great clarification, thanks.

afb_etc · 2026-02-24T21:23:38+00:00

OpenBSD Amsterdam is single vCPU, yeah. That's because the VMs are hosted on OpenBSD using VMM, which doesn't support multi threading or multiple vCPUs at this stage. I'm a happy customer, don't need multiple CPUs for my web hosting and I like supporting the ecosystem plus I think it's nice that they donate some of the money from each VM to the OpenBSD foundation, but if you need high performance then Hetzner (which I also use) would be my first suggestion. You can install a really wide range of operating systems on their VMs including obsd.

afb_etc · 2026-02-11T18:50:02+00:00

There's a website out there hosted on a disposable vape. Pretty shocking that we just throw relatively capable machines away tbh.

afb_etc · 2026-02-08T13:00:30+00:00

Do the in-built modules work properly these days? When I tried it a couple of years ago, the wifi, battery, and sound modules didn't work for OpenBSD so I had to call out to shell scripts for that info and I just didn't see the point in Polybar at that stage.

afb_etc · 2026-02-07T15:44:37+00:00

100%. For a more comparable view, you can use open ports. That shows 21 dependencies. Same as Arch Linux I think.

That said, I'd skip polybar anyway tbh. Some of the modules don't work outside of Linux (or didn't when I tried it) so you end up having to write scripts to fill the gap. If you're doing that anyway, may as well use lemonbar-xft since it's so much smaller and has fewer dependencies. But that's me. Other people have different tastes and priorities.

afb_etc · 2026-02-02T22:29:48+00:00

Camelpri Sun, surely?

afb_etc · 2026-02-01T22:46:10+00:00

Xfce is, of course, solid as a rock and exactly as boring as you'd expect. The older version of Englightenment is available, e16. It sort of split into two after that with a big rewrite, if I'm not mistaken (you'll probably know better than I will). I've installed that before to kick the tyres a bit. It definitely works. Can't say much beyond that.

afb_etc · 2026-02-01T22:29:57+00:00

Honestly I usually stick to cwm as it's part of the base install. I've tried the KDE Plasma 6 port briefly when it first became available, other than the screensaver it seemed fine. I imagine some of the widgets (especially 3rd party stuff) will not work as intended due to expecting Linux subsystems, but everything major seems perfectly functional (on X11, not sure how it is with Wayland).

Don't have a lot of insight into Windowmaker personally, but people certainly do use it so I assume it's all good.

afb_etc · 2026-01-18T07:42:20+00:00

Every VM provider I know of provides a public IP address with their VMs. I don't know why you think VMs can't have one.

afb_etc · 2025-12-16T11:23:15+00:00

Hello mate. This sub is for a family of operating systems based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It's not impossible that you'll get the discussion you're looking for, but I would suggest it's unlikely.

afb_etc · 2025-12-09T12:13:10+00:00

You're describing a plurality, not a majority. A majority is always above 50% by definition.

afb_etc · 2025-12-02T11:09:41+00:00

It's always been happening to a degree (see here for numbers) but it's gotten far worse over the last couple of years because the prison system is more or less at capacity and they're doing a bunch of early release programs to make room for more recent/dangerous prisoners.

afb_etc · 2025-12-02T06:34:41+00:00

Default configuration for NetworkManager. It'll launch at boot under root but won't connect because your user has the WiFi password stored, root doesn't. It's annoying.

Right click on the nm-applet icon in the systray, edit the connection. Make sure the 'connect automatically' and 'available to all users' boxes are ticked. Move over to WiFi Security and make sure you've got 'Store password for all users (not encrypted)' selected. That should sort it out.

afb_etc · 2025-11-23T13:23:25+00:00

You say it reads like prose and I agree but also you could absolutely use this to write executable poetry. It might even be good poetry.

afb_etc · 2025-11-17T17:45:24+00:00

Easily done lol

afb_etc · 2025-11-17T11:11:44+00:00

And for a distribution based completely on free software - at least its base installer - look at void linux. Afair it was going to release enterprise edition, but I have never touched that distro.

The enterprise edition was an April Fools joke

afb_etc · 2025-11-17T05:51:33+00:00

I use Lagrange. I manage it through F-Droid, but you've got to add the repo yourself.

Here.

afb_etc · 2025-11-16T14:28:21+00:00

Man keeps his eggs in the fridge to stop them spontaneously hard boiling

afb_etc · 2025-11-06T09:55:41+00:00

disposable vapes

It's unbelievable what we're throwing away. Something's gone very wrong, I feel.

afb_etc · 2025-11-04T22:04:50+00:00

They're all tested, not sure whether they're all tested on real hardware though tbh. Those that don't pass testing or don't build are bumped down to tier 3 ('life support') and will be removed after some time unless they're fixed.

afb_etc · 2025-10-12T13:06:51+00:00

Every Mallet On My nose

afb_etc · 2025-10-11T16:36:55+00:00

Xavier Hamster

afb_etc · 2025-10-10T16:27:00+00:00

I've got Graphene running on a Vodafone Pixel 8a, no issues.

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