Hey Gang...

Trying to do some damage control for a relative that is stuck on Windows.

What's a good Windows email client nowadays, something with good calendar integration, etc., multiple accounts?

That IS NOT Outlook.

Thanks.

"Twasn't me..."

"Well... it was teh case's fault!!!11!!!"

🤡

If you ever wanted a good reason to keep around your failed hard drives, scavenging screwed up logic boards is a good reason. Ha!

#Linux #RunBSD #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Hardware #HDD

Spent a lot of time today playing with OPNSense (err, fighting - a while back my whining about not getting along with networking was no joke).

Eventually got what I wanted to work to actually work: OPNsense as an exposed node inside a Bell Giga Hub network and routing/NAT'ing to a dmz host hanging off said exposed node. But omfg, I suck at this stuff. It's painful - be glad you can't watch me work. Ha.

Aaannyyyywwwaaaayyyyyy...

If you haven't already upgraded to the latest OPNSense (26.7), you may be surprised by some of the quality of life GUI clean up and more impressively the sped up boot time. On my N150 based box it boots 'super fast' like a normal PC compared to the old fashioned, slow thing it was doing before. No hard data to share, just a seat of the pants anecdote.

#OPNSense #RunBSD #networking #PF

It's infuriating that every USB A connector seems to have three sides and it only ever mates when attempted to connect on the third try.

If one say wanted to move a ZFS root pool from a Linux host and re-install as a root pool on a FreeBSD host, is there anything "special" that needs to be done beyond the standard export/import type tutorials out there?

I mean, beyond mounting the rpool initially from the install media and deleting everything outside of /root and /home I mean?

Backups are verified; just trying to save the time involved for rebuilding ZFS under FreeBSD (vs import) and restoring TBs of data.

Anything special or considerations about the Linux -> FreeBSD movement of the pool?

#Linux #RunBSD #ZFS #OpenZFS

Seems like it's been a busy week for the Alpine devs.

This weekend the repo upgrades linux-stable from 7.0.10 > 7.1.3; Plasma from 6.6.5 > 6.6.6. I'll be keeping an eye on the later. Ha.

Maybe I'll take a swipe at trying the 7800 XT (RDNA3) card in my main machine again to see if things have improved. It's too nice out to be screwing around in the lab today.

#Linux #AlpineLinux #AMDGPU

Does anyone know of a tool that...

Takes an image of a line chart / graph and can turn it into an approximate data table?

If inclined, I could probably use some AI BS to do this but want to avoid fishing with nukes, and do it locally - without me firing up an image editor and manually picking off data points. Ha.

Suggestions?

I'm now at the point that I resent^* having to occasionally log into and manipulate the remaining systems still running systemd based operating systems...

* Resent is too strong a word but you know what I mean.