Openbsd on passthejoe

Hugo in OpenBSD in 2024

Mon, 13 May 2024 19:19:14 -0700

Am I playing with lukewarm fire by syncing my Hugo blog files across Linux and OpenBSD systems and attempting to publish from both?

Maybe it’s my aging theme, but the Hugo binary in OpenBSD threw a whole bunch of errors when I created the file for this post.

If you see this, call the experiment cautiously successful.

OpenBSD seems to run even better in the 7.5 release

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:32:34 -0700

I am not sure if I’m imagining it, but OpenBSD seems to run better on my 2017 HP Envy laptop on the 7.5 release than it did on 7.3 and 7.4.

I don’t know if the project made improvements in the way it runs on my Intel Core i7 7th Gen CPU (and the on-chip Intel GPU), but it seems like things are quieter in terms of the CPU load as seen in htop, the frequency with which the fans spin up and how cool (to the touch) the laptop feels.

Installing OpenBSD on a USB flash drive. Do not recommend.

Sat, 09 May 2020 13:39:17 -0700

My test laptop – a 2012 HP Pavilion g6 – is dying. The past couple of OpenBSD installs resulted in kernel panics, and now the keyboard and touchpad keep failing. I’ve replaced the keyboard twice, and now it’s mostly the ribbon connector between the keyboard and the motherboard.

I have to pop the bottom off the laptop, take out a screw, then pry the keyboard off and re-seat the cable. It’s probably the same kind of thing with the touchpad. And then there are the kernel panics.

I've been using Syncthing to mirror files in Linux, Windows, MacOS and OpenBSD, and it's working

Sat, 14 Sep 2019 15:39:51 -0700

Now that I’m running a new Debian 10 Buster laptop and use Dropbox to sync 160 GB of personal files, I have turned to the open-source, Go-coded Syncthing to keep about 500 MB of work-related files mirrored across that Linux laptop, a Windows 7 desktop and a 2011-era iMac desktop.

It’s all pretty much seamless. I have the Syncthing client running on each PC, and I can monitor the “state” of the sync via a web GUI. Syncthing doesn’t consume a lot of CPU, especially when compared with Dropbox, though I’m not syncing anywhere near as much data for business on Syncthing as I am for personal use on Dropbox.