funny, most people, when they free up a Raspberry Pi, install Home Assistant or Pi-hole.vThis guy installs NetBSD 11.

He spends half the tutorial getting Wi-Fi working, then installs a modern desktop environment styled after a desktop environment from 1993.

next level nostalgia

I see in the list of NetBSD packages that the parts for a fairly good Pi-Hole replica seem to be there. This writer seemed to need WiFi and a desktop, but of course neither is necessary for a Pi-Hole type of host.

https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/index-all.h...

He's got me thinking I could recreate something that looks like 4dwm and put my NetBSD Pi into a defunct O2 case. A "good" O2 from 96-97 would have been 200MHz w/ 256MB of RAM and a 1600SW display (1600x1024).

EMWM would have been far better and lighter than NsCDE, even if compiled from mainline releases with everything: emwm, xfiles, ximaging...

Vibe coder sounds more legitimate than bug breeder.

Imagine being so good at your job that someone else greatest intellectual achievement is looking at your presentation.

Now imagine it being scrapped by an LLM and metered back to you. Interesting times, no?

very indeed. not sure whether i'm buying intelligence or approval, but definitely paying with data and money.

A very academic way of saying We have all the data in the world, except the data we actually need. You ask a company how something works and they say:

"Oh, theres a process."

Great. Where is it documented?

"in a spreadsheet."

Which spreadsheet?

"Well, theres the old spreadsheet, new spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet that Karen maintains."

Where's Karen?

"She left in 2021."

Yeah exactly. I like to joke that I wrote this as a sublimated rant, but it's as much a meditation on why it was impossible to expect it to have been there.

I don't get to break out my academic voice that often these days, so I appreciate the indulgence.

good point, what do you suggest then?

Clickable link: https://kouh.me/ytfeed

Clickable link: https://kouh.me/ytfeed

Yeah quality has gotten worse. Also, some mods love power a bit too much.

There is a Reddit Search, but in my experience is very underwhelming, so not sure that counts.

It hasnt worked for me a single time. Cant do the very basic operation of finding my own comment containing specific string.

Thanks