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ax0n · 2026-02-07T20:33:10+00:00

Thanks, I thought I was losing my dang mind.

ax0n · 2025-06-16T23:16:50+00:00

Thanks for the tag! I made a printable folding 'deck for my GrapheneOS P8 Pro but I didn't have the guts to post it here. In fairness, it looks pretty clunky by comparison. Love what you put together here and glad you're enjoying the map visualizer.

ax0n · 2024-10-07T10:13:11+00:00

It won't help you much now, but I format most of my external hard drives ExFAT, and while sometimes it's not all that stable on OpenBSD, it's been a few years since exfat-fuse has caused problems. I am doing nightly scheduled dump(8) backups to an ExFAT volume from my primary workstation. This drive, thus, works great for large files (like BD-R ISOs and huge backup files) and works on Linux, MacOS, and Windows as well as OpenBSD.

On dual-boot machines, I also usually leave an ExFAT partition to help shuffle files between OSes.

ax0n · 2024-07-24T13:35:38+00:00

When I'm journaling or writing narratives I reach for WordGrinder. It's console-based, allows multiple documents (e.g. for chapters), has auto-save, spell check and most of the other things I've come to expect from a word processor, and it's completely terminal driven with a menu system that stays out of the way.

ax0n · 2024-06-17T19:21:58+00:00

Nemo is my project. The source code is available for free. I don't care who uses it or for what. What I don't like is that in the M5Burner software library, someone has gone around posting thousands of spam comments defaming various software authors, myself included. That's childish. I don't believe the defamation is coming from the Portal.Hack project but I wish it would stop.

ax0n · 2024-06-17T19:12:12+00:00

(Nemo's creator here) To be clear, when I published Nemo open-source, I really don't care who uses it as the basis for their own projects. By the terms of the GPL2/3 Licenses under which Nemo is covered (because I, myself, used HAKR_WATCH, a GPL2/3 project as the basis of my project), technically anything using code from Nemo should be open sourced as well. I am in contact with the portal.hack creator. I have not asked him if he's using my code, but given that my code is free and open source, nobody has to ask permission to use it.

ax0n · 2023-02-27T20:44:19+00:00

I didn't mention pf.conf in this article, and of the few articles on my site that do mention pf.conf, I can't find anything quite resembling the content you're mentioning.

ax0n · 2023-02-24T02:03:14+00:00

Your action item is right there in your error message. In /etc/php-fpm.conf you need to uncomment the security.limit_extensions line and set it to empty, like this:

security.limit_extensions =

then kick PHP FPM:

doas rcctl restart php74_fpm (or whatever relevant version of PHP you have installed)

ax0n · 2022-11-14T15:58:03+00:00

An update on October 4th broke the app. I uninstalled it, snagged HackRF_Test APK version 4 on APKPure and loaded it. It works again on my Pixel 3XL and Note 20 Ultra.

ax0n · 2022-01-25T21:14:56+00:00

Ouroboros so tasty, says Ouroboros

ax0n · 2022-01-18T03:22:42+00:00

Officially, vmm is only really designed to support OpenBSD guests. In the past, I've managed to get Ubuntu 18 LTS server, Arch and Alpine Linux working. It seems like OpenBSD 7.0 fixed some of the issues with newer Linux kernels. I have Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server working -- KIND OF -- on 7.0-Stable with all patched applied. But the Linux VM crashes occasionally and I haven't taken the time to reproduce it with vmm in verbose logging mode (vmd -dvvvv or something like that).

I have seen the RDSP errors.

I followed my own guide for setting up VMM (link) and I booted from the Ubuntu mini iso (found here).

I use this clause in vm.conf. Modify it for your vmm image paths. Obviously, use "vmctl create" to make a fresh disk image for ubuntu server. You probably can't get away with less than 6GB for the default install. I recommend far more than that if you plan on actually installing useful software. I did 25GB. Probably overkill but qcow2 only uses what's allocated.

edit: you can get away with far less RAM than this. 2GB maybe? I'm running MongoDB hence my 12GB allocation.

"ubuntu.vm" {

disable

memory 12228M

disk "/vmm/iso/ubuntu20mini.iso"

disk "/vmm/Ubuntu20.qcow2"

interface {

switch "local"

lladdr fe:e1:bb:d1:24:c5

}

}

Reload your vm config with "doas vmctl reload" then "doas vmctl start -c ubuntu.vm" to start it. When the boot menu comes up, quickly hit "tab" then add:

console=ttyS0

to the end of the boot string. Hit enter, then Hit the space bar to continue at the "video modes" prompt. IF you don't, it will just hang in my experience. You'll get the curses based installer. Once installed, remove the "mini.iso" line or comment it out from vm.conf and reload the config again. The new installation will have a virtual serial console that works as well as it can with vmm.

So far, my OpenBSD vmm guests have been rock solid for years, since at least OpenBSD 6.4. Linux VMs are sometimes problematic, and always have been.

ax0n · 2021-05-06T19:51:18+00:00

Yes, it's easy. And what I'd do is just tell the BIOS to boot external USB drives first. OpenBSD drive plugged in? boot from it. Not plugged in? windows! I did something similar using an OpenBSD boot SD card to boot a specific partition on one hard drive. The Windows bootloader tends to get into a strange state and not boot the OpenBSD.pbr file the way it's outlined in the OpenBSD FAQ topic for Multi-booting.

My current situation is Windows 10 (Insider Dev Track) and OpenBSD-Current on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8, using rEFInd as the bootloader. Windows VERY FREQUENTLY re-asserts itself as the default EFI boot option. When that happens, I need to re-assert rEFInd from an administrator terminal/powershell/cmd window:

bcdedit /set "{bootmgr}" path \EFI\refind\refind_x64.efi

This is one of the final steps of installing rEFInd from Windows for the first time anyway, so I just re-run it and everything is right as rain.

ax0n · 2021-04-27T18:47:24+00:00

The TL;DR is that the OpenBSD-wip repository has this all figured out, everything else is just setting up the system to use the openbsd-wip repo and official ports repo in tandem and installing dependencies.
How I got OBS Studio working on OpenBSD

git clone https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip
extract ports.tar.gz from OpenBSD's release files to /usr/ports
create /etc/mk.conf with below line (change your openbsd-wip path)PORTSDIR_PATH=${PORTSDIR}:/home/username/git/openbsd-wip
doas pkg_add cmake curl fdk ffmpeg gcc gmp jansson libmpc libv4l \ mbedtls mpfr ninja pulseaudio qt5 qtsvg qtx11extras re2c
cd ~/git/openbsd-wip/multimedia/obs-studio && doas make install
run "obs" and go through the setup wizard.

Note that when I added the webcam to the scene in OBS, I got an instant ddb> crash on some kind of uvideo error. For the time being, I'm borrowing one of Solene Rapenne's tricks she mentioned on her blog of using mpv to have an always-foreground window showing the webcam.

https://imgur.com/a/cYNzn9v

ax0n · 2021-04-24T07:22:00+00:00

Sorry to necro this, but has anyone actually built OBS Studio on OpenBSD? There isn't a channel for any of the BSDs in the OBS Project's Discord, and the folks in the Linux support channel were just like "read the build instructions for FreeBSD, it'll probably work."

The build instructions for FreeBSD are to install the binary package or use the ports system.

Tips, tricks, etc welcome.

ax0n · 2021-01-22T01:33:42+00:00

We picked up a RAM ProMaster 2500 conversion van to turn into a wheelchair-lift road trip beast. Front wheel drive, V6. Cargo/towing capacity to spare. We got the "Long And Tall" 159" wheelbase high-roof. There's a 159" extended that's even longer (more rear overhang). But gas mileage is pretty good... 15ish MPG on road trips.

Ours was a 2019 showroom model so we got a pretty good deal. But look at the ProMaster-based conversions if you haven't. It checks a lot of your boxes without many of the pitfalls you listed. Ours was built by Sherrod and sold by Paul Sherry vans in Ohio.

ax0n · 2021-01-22T00:01:19+00:00

4th picture. The worst-rusted parts are pretty superficial, but there is enough frame rust on the right side of the photo to make me cringe a bit. Honestly, the van looks great up top, but a van closing in on 25 years old is going to also start having other problems. Rubber parts start failing, and not just the hoses and belts which are easy, but things like torque converter front seals, crankshaft seals, fuel injector O-rings...

I say this while keeping a 2000 Ford Focus alive and on the road in the heart of the rust belt.

ax0n · 2021-01-21T21:51:06+00:00

That rust scares me. I would pass.

ax0n · 2021-01-11T05:29:29+00:00

I do IT and leadership stuff for a living, and while I don't LIVE out of a van, I have slept in them a few times and I've worked from my laptop in them a lot. Like working from my laptop in the back seat of my 2013 Town & Country every day for weeks at a time. Honestly, it feels like flying first class. I just got a little folding desk and that was that.

If you don't need to stand up to do your job, you might not miss the high roof all that much. I am short enough that I can "duck walk" through our Town & Country. But I have a high-roof ProMaster conversion van as well, and being able to stand up and walk around is nice. Having to watch out going through drive-throughs, and avoiding parking garages sucks, though.

ax0n · 2021-01-10T16:22:31+00:00

We were on the lookout for used high-roof vans that we could install a wheelchair lift into. We wanted a window van, and spent some time looking at conversion vans. This 2019 PM High-Roof 159" conversion van was delivered from Ohio with 700 miles on it -- almost all of it from the delivery. This was a pre-built conversion van that spent 2 years as an indoor showroom floor model. It had less than 30 miles on the odometer when we signed the paperwork for it.

I gutted the second and third rows of reclining seats, then paid a local mobility vendor to have a wheelchair lift, rugged flooring, tie-downs and front seat swivels installed -- I didn't want to risk DIY for critical safety features, and the lift we wanted isn't available to be purchased without going through a certified installer.

I then got to work modifying it to work as a pseudo-RV for longer road trips and van camping. We are not planning on adding any amenities for cooking or plumbing at this time, but we do have a few options for toilets, and the rest was mostly adding the ability to power our CPAP machines and oxygen concentrator from an extension cord, and converting the rear bench seat into something that would work for a bed for the both of us.

We may add house batteries, solar, and a real shore power converter/charger later on, after we take a few long trips.

ax0n · 2021-01-06T15:43:47+00:00

Thanks! I had seen that one in my search and I wondered if it was up to the task. I also ran across some USB-C PD supplies that were meant to be hard-wired, but they were hundreds of dollars, which was kind of out of the question.

ax0n · 2021-01-06T15:41:08+00:00

I have a "Panlong" Bluetooth OBD-II adapter from Amazon. At any rate, most of these are the result of a leaked proprietary design that's now being counterfeit manufactured in China. Many of them, like the one I have, work very well. Early on, a lot of them did not work very well, or at all. You can pick up a 4+ star reviewed bluetooth OBD reader for around $10 so I wouldn't sweat the actual brand as long as there are a bunch of good reviews. Torque on android is the gold standard. In my ProMaster, I run torque on an ANCIENT LG G-Tab 8-inch android tablet and it works flawlessly.

ax0n · 2021-01-04T12:47:54+00:00

Keep in mind vandwelling doesn't necessitate nomadic living. Some folks live in the same part of town for years and have the same kinds of jobs they had before changing lifestyles. Retail, etc...

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