Hardware
Since the moment I started having servers in my house, I always put them under my desk or in a bookshelf. They shouldn’t be visible; because of Wife Acceptance Factor . They shouldn’t be too noisy; because I can’t stand fan’s noise. This led to pretty complicated arrangement as computers have not always been that small and that fanless.Continue reading...
I run a lot of bhyve VMs on my OmniOS server because that’s the way I’m used to go with exposing services. For fun knowledge purposes, I decided that I would replace my Grafana virtual machine with an Illumos zone.
Thanks to pkgsrc, this is really easy and straightforward.Continue reading...
By default, FreeBSD 14.1 does not recognized the multimedia keys of my NuPhy Field75 USB keyboard. Worse than that, the (beloved) metal knob used for volume control doesn’t work either.
Hopefully, after a bunch of readings & trials & errors, I ended up finding the configuration bits required to have it fully working!Continue reading...
This is an attempt at building an OpenBSD desktop than could be used by newcomers or by people that don’t care about tinkering with computers and just want a working daily driver for general tasks.
Somebody will obviously need to know a bit of UNIX but we’ll try to limit it to the minimum.Continue reading...
I recently got interested in so-called Generative AI. I tested a few things like ChatGPT, Dall-E or Bing Image Generator. Then I discovered things could be self-hosted rather that using Cloud resources. But I am no gamer, nor do I want to have a full machine eating 200W all day to run my little experiments.
I decided I would use my new Topton GM1 Thunderbolt port and connect an eGPU to it. This way I can simply turn it on and off when needed.Continue reading...