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  Networking solution for #NetBSD I set up my FreshTomato router (old Netgear R7000) as a wireless bridge and am using an Ethernet cable to feed the laptop. It's working great with #OpenBSD 8.0 (which is what I have on the test drive right now). (I could plug straight into the "main" router, but it's in a closet and I don't have the house wired for Ethernet.)

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  I'm not trying to make you do anything you don't want to do, but two of the most useful things I've ever learned are: touch typing (1 semester in high school) vi (to use Unix in college) I'm am by no means "advanced" in either one of these skills, but a little goes a very long way IMO.

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  My new #NetBSD install is underway right now. I didn't want to do manual partitioning for encryption, so I just did a quick and dirty sysinst. Applications are going on now. And I have a wired Ethernet connection (to a wireless bridge). I will try to daily drive this one.

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  I "daily drove" #NetBSD 11 today, running from a USB HDD on a 2017 HP Pavilion laptop (Intel/Nvidia). I used CTWM. My tasks require a lot of Chromium windows and a lot of tabs per window. I'd say it went OK, but there were issues. By the end of my time (a few hours), Chromium was starting to go a little wonky. I wasn't able to get some sites to load. It would just hang. And I really needed to be able to turn off tap to click on the touchpad. 1/2

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  The #NetBSD documentation on vi is pretty good. You could learn it from this. https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-edit.html#chap-edit-configuring-vi-exrc It's not full Vim, though the #vi in the BSDs is still a great editor. I tend to go for full #Vim, but I do switch between the two.

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  Being able to run sysinst at any time is a #NetBSD super power

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  I did a bare-metal install of #NetBSD today on my 2017 HP Pavilion (Intel/Nvidia) laptop using a USB-connected 500 GB HDD. It took a couple passes before I figured out that I had to manually remove the MBR on the target drive for the installation to boot. Then it was easy because I've done a bunch of practice installs. On this laptop, everything works: WiFi X11 Sound (and volume buttons) Brightness buttons YouTube video plays great On par with #OpenBSD, better than #FreeBSD on this hard...

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  The #NetBSD Project offers a live image for AMD64 that includes X11 and features persistence. Why does nobody ever talk about this? I put this image on a USB drive, booted it, logged in as root (no password needed), created a user account, started X, configured the network, and i everything was still there after a reboot. https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/images/11.0/NetBSD-11.0-amd64-live.img.gz

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  We went pretty quickly from "IDEs are cool and you can find tech tips at StackOverflow" to "AI will do all the things all the time"

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  Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable (gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/technology/meta-ai-employees-miserable.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g1A.DGX2.mnXE15l4W3qy&smid=nytcore-android-share

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  I'm now doing my calendar with #OneCalendar on Android and #Nextcloud for sync and the Web browser. I'm using #Thunderbird to run the calendar on desktop, but I'm also open to exploring other apps for Linux. Next step: a new second-factor authentication app #degoogle

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  The FolderPlay music player on Flathub https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.juancarlosbernal.FolderPlay

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  Why doesn't Markdown work when posting on the Mastodon web site?

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  Today's post is about trouble with two #GNOME apps after #RedHat declines to transfer employee out of the U.S. https://zola.passthejoe.net/blog/gnome-maintainer-leaves/

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  I'm not a pro developer (and barely an amateur) and don't use AI, but I still choose Project #Bluefin as my atomic Linux distro. First of all, I'm a believer in atomic/immutable systems, and I also like a plug-and-play system where so many things work well and look good while doing it. Add a supportive community, extremely open and communicative development, helpful documentation and enough modern technology to make it interesting. And my favorite thing: It only updat...

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  It's the 1 millionth's article by someone who would use Linux on the desktop if only they could run Adobe apps and their favorite games. My take is that if you really need Adobe and are willing to pay for it, you need an Adobe appliance. I'm not a gamer, so I'll leave that argument to the experts. For me, the point of free software OSes isn't to run a bunch of proprietary apps. It's the opposite thing. https://www.howtogeek.com/why-i-dont-use-...