morganvachon

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by morganvachon 5y ago
Definitely! I don't have much of an online presence beyond here, OSNews, Ars Technica, and Reddit, but I have been wanting to start a blog about my tech hobbies (OpenBSD primarily) and this would be a good start for it. I'll be su
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by morganvachon 5y ago
> Or video accelerated YouTube You can get GPU accelerated YouTube videos in OpenBSD, provided you have a supported GPU in the first place. You have to use Firefox and enable gfx.webrender.all and layers.acceleration.force-enabled
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by morganvachon 5y ago
The forthcoming GPU and sound support are all I'm waiting for to move my daily OpenBSD workstation to my M1 mini. I tested Asahi Linux on it earlier this morning and it was mind-bogglingly fast. My fastest AMD64 based system is a Ryzen
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Given that Apple has finally conceded that a laptop thicker than an iPad is acceptable (M1 Pro/Max models), we may see the Ultra chip in a new flagship Macbook Pro soon. It won't be cranked all the way up like it is in the Mac Stu
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by morganvachon 5y ago
> In my opinion, the performance delta between 28nm Sandy Bridge and 14nm Kaby Lake is ridiculously small. Two of my Linux workstations are Sandy Bridge and Kaby Lake, and my real world experience bears this out. I can't distingui
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I use an iPhone too, but aren't all iOS browsers using the Safari engine in the background, even if the front end is branded as Firefox/Edge/whatever?
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I'll play devil's advocate and suggest that when one buys a Mac, one is already aware of the fact that it's more of an appliance and a subscription hub than an actual computer. Yes, it does all the regular computer things, bu
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by morganvachon 5y ago
> No it doesn't. Try a plain text description of an electronic circuit vs a circuit diagram. Maybe it's just me, but I do this at work all the time. I create build sheets out of just plain text before I fire up the circuit simu
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by morganvachon 5y ago
You say your background includes Slackware Linux but you find OpenBSD to be difficult, nigh impossible, to install correctly? I think you're being disingenuous. I too have a long history with Slackware, going back to the late 90s, and
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by morganvachon 5y ago
There is no official dependency support, but there are projects out there that add dependency resolution to slackpkg[1][2] and sbopkg[3][4]. A few of the Slackware-based distros have their own method of dealing with it as well. [1] https:&
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by morganvachon 5y ago
No, I'm not. I'm satisfying the other person's request for sources with examples I've come across in the past. In this case it was not about cgroup-less kernels but about Poettering's and Sievers' attitudes tow
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by morganvachon 5y ago
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-Ma... https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935#c10 ----- Adding "hacks" but not testing to ensure said hacks don'
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by morganvachon 5y ago
A guarantee is only as good as the willingness to honor it. There are great ideas and some good implementations in systemd, but when the people behind it have a pattern of refusing to fix (and sometimes even acknowledge) show-stopping bugs,
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Agreed, I have generally avoided systemd as I don't feel it's fully baked yet (not trying to start a flame war, that is just my experience and I'm sure it's fine for others). Still, I need to really learn it both for whe
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by morganvachon 5y ago
That's always been the rule of thumb that I learned growing up too. My dad kept 90% or stronger concentrations for cleaning electrical contacts and other industrial uses, and 70% for first aid and sanitizing, because that's what e
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Yes, eLILO was made for this purpose. I still prefer it to GRUB, though EFISTUB is an option as well for those who don't want or need either, as long as your particular UEFI supports it.
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Swapping hard drives, yes. Slackware boots on the original Windows 98 hard drive alongside Windows, and I have two other drives. One has BeOS 5.1, the other is my test drive I use to try out other OSes (NetBSD is on it right now if I rememb
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Indeed, Slackware still defaults to LILO/eLILO and it works perfectly fine on modern hardware, older hardware from LILO's heyday should be no issue at all. I still hang on to a PIII based Dell Latitude laptop from 2001 and Slackwa
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Yeah, I think the GP meant to say "puff piece" instead of "hit piece".
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Out of curiosity I checked eBay to see the going rate for this particular portable; of the two listed, one has a starting price of $350 and I watched the other go from a $99 bid to $150+ in an hour. Apart from the quirkiness or the need to
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by morganvachon 5y ago
If that's the case then the GUI app isn't open source and is a completely different product from the CLI version, and differently licensed. If the CLI version can't do everything the GUI version can, I'd be keen to move
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by morganvachon 5y ago
There were external 5.25 drives back in the day that connected via parallel port, one of those paired with a parallel to USB bridge should do the trick. The really hard part will be drivers, unless your USB adapter has one baked into the fi
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I had a lot of issues with corrupted ZIP disks back in those days. They were far more reliable than floppies but far less reliable than hard drives. It got so bad I gave up using them for long term backups and switched to tape for that, rel
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I'm confused...Crossover (a commercial product using Wine as its backend and contributes back to the Wine project[1]) uses the term "bottles" for its container-like method to install Windows apps on Linux and macOS. Is this a
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Yep. The saving grace is they don't have a need to reach the third stage and extinguish anything; their focus is on developers and server/cloud, they likely don't feel intimidated by "desktop Linux".
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Microsoft has embraced Linux and open source in general to the extent that it helps them expand into larger markets. Linux is to servers as Windows is to desktop computing, Microsoft has finally acknowledged that they can't "win&q
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by morganvachon 5y ago
M1/AArch64 is the future of Mac hardware, this is AWS following the path. Devs targeting the macOS desktop should be focused on M1 native exclusively unless long term support of X86_64 Macs is part of their product's support optio
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by morganvachon 5y ago
It was indeed on older official releases on those older machines, I never got into the nightly builds that much. I will try both the latest release and latest build this weekend when I work on the new hardware, and I'll report any show
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by morganvachon 5y ago
As both a Haiku and RPi fan, I agree they would be a great combination. RiscOS has run on the Pi since the first model, and if that combination's performance is anything to go by, Haiku would likely run circles around Linux on Pis. The
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I've had the best luck with older "office PCs" like HP EliteDesk/ProDesk series and Dell Optiplex machines. They tend to standardize around the most common denominator components like Intel or Realtek Ethernet NICs and I

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