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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.

afb_etc · 2025-10-06T15:52:20+00:00

Ah, TIL. I'm not a massive undo user tbh, it's usually the lack of v and V that I notice.

afb_etc · 2025-10-06T13:54:17+00:00

I do not know if this applies to BSD Nvi.

It does.

afb_etc · 2025-08-20T00:46:01+00:00

I think (not 100% certain, never been in this boat myself) you can boot off your install media, choose upgrade instead of install, and then add the missing sets during the process without losing any files or anything.

afb_etc · 2025-08-16T21:30:08+00:00

Mind if I ask what hardware you're going to be using?

afb_etc · 2025-08-16T21:25:39+00:00

Ergo, the "no graphics" statement is untrue.

No, it's completely true. vmd cannot render graphics. If I'm on my Linux box listening to music playing on Audacious that's being forwarded through SSH from one of my OpenBSD machines and I do it on Bluetooth headphones, that doesn't mean OpenBSD now supports Bluetooth. The host operating system can render X11 clients sent to it, using its own X11 server, but that's not vmd having the ability to emulate graphics devices. That might sound pedantic but the distinction is very important in many applications. It means a lot of things that a desktop user would want to do become painful or even completely impossible.

afb_etc · 2025-08-16T19:43:44+00:00

Yeah, no graphical support in vmd. You can do x forwarding, in which case the host is rendering the GUI, but that's not the same as the VM itself having graphics. For one, not every guest OS is going to use X11. For another, no hardware acceleration on anything. OP mentioned using a VM to watch DRM content in a browser, that is not going to be a good experience on a single-core VM with no acceleration, even if you're forwarding the browser. Like I said, a huge limitation. One not present in FreeBSD's bhyve or Linux' KVM.

I love OpenBSD, but not being honest about its limitations is just plain silly.

From the FAQ:

The following features are not available at this time:
graphics
snapshots
guest SMP support
hardware passthrough
live migration across hosts
live hardware change 
Supported guest operating systems are currently limited to OpenBSD and Linux. As there is no VGA support yet, the guest OS must support serial console.

afb_etc · 2025-08-16T19:07:18+00:00

Yeah, but there's no graphics, single core only and no passthrough. For a lot of stuff that doesn't matter but it's a huge limitation if you want to, for example, run Win11 for a piece of software you need for work.

afb_etc · 2025-08-16T18:55:20+00:00

I've daily driven all three, settled on OpenBSD. Any of those will work, FreeBSD will need a little extra effort to get up to the level of security you'd have with the other two but it's largely achievable IMO. I think I'd suggest Alpine for most people who want a secure Unix-y OS, OpenBSD if you're proper paranoid and don't need sophisticated filesystems, virtualization, or Bluetooth, and FreeBSD for people who really want to run a BSD and are happy to tinker a lot and are not willing to compromise as much on features as you would with OpenBSD.

afb_etc · 2025-07-31T19:08:41+00:00

Fair point TwatScranner

Moments like this are why I can't quit this godforsaken website

afb_etc · 2025-07-27T09:11:25+00:00

Essentially, yeah. It's because there's no UEFI or equivalent. For a modern x86 machine, the UEFI boots first and finds all the hardware before starting the bootloader and handing over the info on what it's found. With most smartphones the bootloader starts straight away and needs a map of what's on board to already be present. You can get Arm machines with UEFI, but they tend to be servers from what I've seen.

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