Posts by TheTKS

Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users

Re: self-defense

Self-defense: have a computer like mine on which this update inexplicably fails, but other updates still happen. For now.

Dell customer order database of '49M records' stolen, now up for sale on dark web

> the Dell database now up for sale on a cyber-crime forum includes the following columns:

Province and postal code? I live in a country with provinces (not states) and postal (not post) codes!

Checks email…

Ah, crap. Yup, got the email. In French. Merde! I live in a country and province with French and English as official languages! Good thing (!?) I understand French well enough to get the gist of what Dell has done to me.

Dell… a company that can screw you multilingually.

OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations

Re: If you want a fancier desktop setup why run Open?

OpenBSD with a DE (Xfce) and web browser (Firefox) on a Raspberry Pi 4.

Because I can.

Not painful.

Performance: not screaming fast; fast enough for what I do with it.

I’ve had it installed on a desktop computer. Very usable as an everyday computer. I haven’t gotten to replacing that computer after it gave the ghost, but I’m not missing it with the Pi 4 running as an adequate replacement.

Venturing beyond the default OS on Raspberry Pi 5

Re: arm64 versions of OpenBSD (and likely FreeBSD) should work too

> Installing either OpenBSD or FreeBSD is not as hard as what seems to be the general perception out there.

Agreed for OpenBSD on a Pi 4, happily running OpenBSD 7.4 here.

But since the article is about Pi 5…

> The more adventurous among us might be tempted to try something like OpenBSD/arm64 (https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html)

Pi5? Too adventurous for me. Not supported for 7.4, but I expect people with the right skills are working on it in current.