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horia honked 22 May 2026 14:20 -0700

Random quote from the #OpenBSD #Matrix room:

It seems like an interesting decision to just install all sets by default

abyxcos: BSD systems favor cathedral style development rather than bazaar. Tends to be like that here, one base that works together vs infinite flexibility to handle replacements.

horia bonked 21 May 2026 09:59 -0700
original: m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net

OMG, these are my cats! On my Gemini capsule! In Lagrange! On my olde T43 connected to a wireless network! Except it's running #OpenBSD !

And getting here was much easier than I anticipated, installation takes like 15 minutes and it throws less stupid questions at you than any modern Linux distro would. Recent FreeBSD can't even boot on this machine and here even IBM MicroDrive in PCMCIA slot works! OpenBSD, WTF?! 😲

Desk with IBM ThinkPad T43 on it, gemini://m0xEE.Net/about.gmi is open in Lagrange running on it.

horia bonked 20 May 2026 14:42 -0700
original: kaidenshi@exquisite.social

OpenBSD continues to be a dream on the desktop, but sometimes I am reminded that it's just different enough from Linux to require some manual tweaking. Printers used to be a pain point in Linux, but in recent years it's all pretty much automatic. Not so for OpenBSD; while it's pretty simple, there are some weird gotchas. Hopefully this post helps anyone who had my particular issue setting up an HP printer.

https://www.kaidenshi.com/posts/printing-with-cups-on-openbsd/

#OpenBSD #printing