Posts by TheTKS 3 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Mar 2024
> 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 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.
> 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.
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