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Trying Navidrome as alternative to streaming services

Posted on zo 03 december 2023 in runbsd

Preface

Trying to ditch centralized services is hard work, in the sense that you need to select some other tool that is functionally great, but also doable when it comes to self-hosting. Recently I had worked on getting rid of the hosted RSS/News aggregator I was using and it …


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Adding a couple of more OpenBSD VMs from OpenBSD.Amsterdam

Posted on za 18 november 2023 in runbsd

To do some more OpenBSD fiddling without fiddling with actual hardware, I was looking for some extra virtual machines. I asked around for other options, but not many came up, and they were not particularly more interesting than OpenBSD.Amsterdam.

So yesterday I asked Mischa to set up two now …


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Attended first full day #bsdnl meetup

Posted on za 11 november 2023 in runbsd

Today was the first all day meetup for #bsdnl in Utrecht. It was really nice to meet a diverse set of *BSD fans!

Apparently the goal is to organize a couple of these events a year. Sounds good to me!

bsdnl artwork

Thanks to Mischa, Jeroen and others for making this possible …


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OpenBSD desktop running on Slimbook

Posted on za 11 november 2023 in runbsd

So over the week I spend some time configuring the Desktop on top of OpenBSD 7.4. Installing OpenBSD it self was rather pleasant. The X server and drivers for various devices (Wifi etc) just worked without any manual intervention from my side.

That was last week, but to be …


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Dual booting Zorin/OpenBSD anyway

Posted on vr 03 november 2023 in runbsd

So last May my dual boot setup of Linux/Windows on my Slimbook PROX got fscked up. I figured I would give up on dual booting.

But that was last May. And the first BSD NL day is coming next week which I plan to attend. And there was no …


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