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UnitedBSD is great if you need a little help with your netBSD install, or just want to interact with other BSD/unix types. Very friendly community.

The author of the linked post, JuvenalUrbino, contributes a great deal imo.

people always doubt Hersh but he's rarely wrong, and he has incredible sources.

Btw, the US/NATO sabotaging that pipeline isn't exactly a crazy idea.

lets see how long Apple keeps the store open.....

yeah same my s3 and s6 were both great, and I considered staying with samsung before choosing a pixel at the time

I used samsung phones and liked some of their default apps more than "stock" android apps; especially the camera/gallery, the audio player, the sms app more than google's app

What did you need to configure before being able to be productive?

I agree with what you're saying but firefox with ublock origin and reader mode is definitely useful

debian has zfs support no? That being said a nas running freebsd is probably the best choice

yeah agreed, they're great on laptops, like the X and T series thinkpads.

it's the gestures. once you learn the gestures you start realizing what everyone else is talking about. I've owned thinkpads, and I love the old keyboards and trackpoints. I was always a thinkpad/linux/bsd user (still am). I have my first macbook (air m1), and the way gestures work on macbook means I don't miss the trackpoint.

I believe Japanese ISP's used netBSD in their hardware. I think it's used in many embedded systems as another user pointed out. NASA has used NetBSD in the past as well.

https://netbsd.org/gallery/research.html#sams-ii

https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/products.html

yeah you should check it out. Hopefully NetBSD 10 will be out soon

and freebsd as well.

NetBSD is great. For such a small project they accomplish a lot.

they're charging more, but I always assumed that's because they're a smaller company based in the US paying US wages. Also a while back they mentioned that they wanted to build everything here in the US. They also support linux, coreboot, etc. I think there are people out there willing to spend money to support something they care about.

starblabs look great. Great specs, coreboot, support for many linux distros....but I'm still waiting on my starbook mk VI since about last sping. It's frustrating, but I know they've had problems in the supply chain.

I'm happy to support a company like that obviously, but it's still frustrating.

I had not heard about this...thanks for sharing, looks fun

Just check that your hardware is supported before installing.

https://bsd-hardware.info/

>Is FreeBSD more suited to daily consumer laptop use? I use Arch btw

It can be, it depends on what you use your laptop for. For example, if you game, maybe sticking with Arch is for the best. Bluetooth is supported on Free and NetBSD, but I haven't used it on those os's. EDIT: FreeBSD supports bluetooth, but support might be spotty/depend on how old/new the hardware is. On Free/Net, bluetooth also seems less straightforward ("user friendly) than on linux or commerical OS's like MacOS.

Since you're used to arch, installing, configuring, and maintaining FreeBSD shouldn't be too difficult. Try it in a VM for a while until you get used to using vs linux.

> if I recall, OpenBSD devs are not a huge fan of bluetooth

iirc, when they went to implement it in OpenBSD, it was decided the bluetooth stack was basically just too poorly implemented and not really secure. I think if we ever see bluetooth in OpenBSD it will be a rewrite by some of their devs; basically when one of them decides to scratch an itch.

>Netbsd just sits in the corner doing their own thing, I am not sure what that is but I suspect if I had not fallen for openbsd I would be using netbsd. A good solid small OS.

Portability, pkgsrc, some neat innovations, and a small and welcoming community. I'm not qualified to judge this, but they also value code quality and security.

I always thought it was centered around the HammerFS.

I only learned about smartos recently, after using openindiana and learning about illumos based systems. SmartOS is a really neat idea; I'm surprised it's not more popular

thanks, this is extremely helpful. Any idea if there is something like virt manager for macos. So far I'm not a fan of UTM.

parallels cost money? or am i wrong about that?

There's no qemu equivalent on mac I don't think.

I would like to know as well. UTM isn't great at the moment

> My T430s is still going strong.

Mine too! I would say it all depends on use case. If OP has certain tasks in mind they should maybe invest in something more powerful/newer. Having said that the t430s is a solid machine.

oh i loved reading the old computer challenge at the time. Solene did some great write ups about it

what do you do with 700 news feeds?!

if you like the cli on linux/unix then newsboat is great

We need more than EV's, we need better (more frequent, safe, more efficient) public transit, and to be able to afford to live closer to where we work

interesting, those things (especially photos not saving) never happened to me on Samsung or google phones