359 sats \ 6 replies \ @ibz 19 Jul 2022 \ on: Ask SN: What interesting, non-Bitcoin technology have you been using lately? bitcoin
  1. OpenBSD. I feel like I have wasted 10+ years of my life using Mac OS and Linux. Moving to OpenBSD is so refreshing! I still have one laptop running Ubuntu, but slowly moving my main workflow to OpenBSD. It's all so clean and beautiful!
  2. Sonic Pi. Since I am playing various flutes, I needed somebody to play along with. Sonic Pi is much more than that though, and I am slowly discovering it. The nice part is you can do "live coding" - basically edit the code while the music is playing during a live performance. Trying to see how better I can integrate this into my workflow. Especially with the OpenBSD thing (I am still working on porting Sonic Pi to OpenBSD).
  3. ... like I mentioned above - flutes. I particularly like the Romanian "kaval" but also the Romanian "telenka" which is an "overtone flute", like the Slovakian fujara (but much smaller) - it doesn't have finger holes, and is very easy to play by beginners, but also very versatile.
  4. Moved my phone to Graphene OS (first step was to move from iPhone to Android, and get used to it, then I took the big step to move to Graphene, which was not such a complicated move actually).
  5. Raspberry Pi Zero is very cool for having various sensors around the house. Played with it for a while, made my Umbrel collect data from the various Pi Zeros and generate some graphs. Like a poor man's "home automation" - I don't want a "smart home" at all actually, but I love the temperature sensors with graphs over time.
  6. Battery power tools are very cool, I now have angle grinder, boring machines, reciprocating saw, ... all sharing the same batteries, which is cool, and I end up using them more often because of the lack of cables. Not sure whether I should go with battery powered for the chainsaw, I'll probably give it a try, but I feel like my main chainsaw will always be gasoline powered.
  7. Looking to buy a power generator, I think the best is the one that can do gasoline + GPL, what do you guys thing? I have some bigger GPL tanks that I can use to stock gas, so I can keep my freezer alive during the great reset, I feel like gasoline is harder to store. The best way to store diesel is having my van's tank always full, but still not as convenient as GPL tanks, which you easily move around.
  8. Want to start raising sheep. Didn't happen this year, as life got busy with other things, but looking forward to buy some lambs next spring.
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330 sats \ 2 replies \ @irusensei 19 Jul 2022
OpenBSD. I feel like I have wasted 10+ years of my life using Mac OS and Linux. Moving to OpenBSD is so refreshing! I still have one laptop running Ubuntu, but slowly moving my main workflow to OpenBSD. It's all so clean and beautiful!
I use it for public facing services. For everything else I tend to favor FreeBSD. For desktops I literally have to use everything because work.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @ibz 19 Jul 2022
Once upon a time, I was probably in high school, I had time to try out everything. I was a happy Slackware user at the time, but tried all the BSDs as well (been running FreeBSD as well for a while). For some reason I always remembered OpenBSD as the most pleasant of all OSes I tried, I don't know why.
But yes, then work happened... Windows, then OSX and Linux... Years passed by. I was buying MBP after MBP every couple of years, as they would break down for various reasons, becoming obsolete, impossible to fix... but hey - the employer always paid for the last MBP, and ... isn't MBP the default tool for a programmer?
But now, no more. I am slowly transitioning to OpenBSD and I am not getting any job that provides free MBPs. Those things are simply disgusting.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @based 20 Jul 2022
On the topic of alternative operating systems, for Linux, NixOS is where it's at. It's not "simple" though, like OpenBSD, but it has other great properties.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @CheezeGrater 19 Jul 2022
Have you had any major hiccups with Graphene OS? Did you de-Google it as well?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ibz 19 Jul 2022
It was incredibly smooth. I think it is de-Googled by default (that was my main rationale for moving to it) but I did install the Play Store on it post-factum. Some apps exist only in the Play Store unfortunately. At least this allows for a smooth transition - you can keep using some apps from the Play Store, while you slowly find alternatives.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @CheezeGrater 19 Jul 2022
That's good to hear, I suppose removing Google from the OS is already a big improvement.
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