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  Left the house at 4:45 this morning and got to Uig on the isle of Skye at about 10:30. Ripped out the fishing vessels old autopilot and fitted a new one all by 12. Then drove back home and that's me just in the door about 18:45. To say I'm absolutely cream crackered is an understatement! Time for some food and a cup of tea.

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  For all those #Unix lovers running a #BSD which of the following #ksh shells would you recommend and why ? Let it be noted that I'm currently running #oksh on #FreeBSD just now but have wondered about ksh-devel ksh93u+m the development branch ksh93 based on AT&T ksh93u+ (stable). Am I missing out on anything here ? https://github.com/ksh93/ksh #RunBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

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  Giving #Ironfox a go on my mobile instead of #Firefox . Also going to try #Librewolf instead of #Qutebrowser to see how I go on my #FreeBSD #ThinkPad .

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  Nice that's the first time I've upgraded my system using pkgbase and it's gone from FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 to FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2 without issue. Oh and why yes I'm still using CoW ( Wayland and behaves like fvwm by @thomasadam@bsd.network ) as my Window manager and loving it's many many configurations. This could take me a wee while to get just how I'd like but definitely loving that retro vibe! #FreeBSD #Wayland #CoW #pkgbase

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  That's Beastie upgraded from #FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 to FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2 without issue. Although I did come a cropper on my 8 Bastille jails. I had to change the securelevel to allow it to complete the command doas bastille pkg ALL upgrade but all is good and they are running FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2 now too.

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  When you go to view a post on the #FreeBSD forum and you're greeted with Forum upgrade in progress.

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  Decided I've nothing better to do than to wipe the nvme drive on my Dell Optiplex 3080 Tower and download / install the latest #OpenBSD snapshot img file to see if it now upgrades fine after the issues I had when it suddenly refused to upgrade past the 13th May snapshot but would downgrade without issue to any other date. Fingers crossed it works now as it's only an i5.

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  Would you believe it ? I've only just finished my ECDIS course at Raymarine and Loganair have already messaged me to say that my scheduled 08:30 flight to Edinburgh tomorrow morning has been delayed and estimated departure is now 10:10 . Can they not run any flights on time !? 🙄

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  OK then I'm away to possibly break my #FreeBSD 15.1 install on my #ThinkPad by going all modern and pkgbasify it. Wish me luck! 😟 :runbsd: :freebsd: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify

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  So yesterday I got my wife Julie to install #DeltaChat so I could test out voice notes, Video calling and so on, Thinking that she'd probably not use it again. Well today to my surprise she sends me a voice not to say that she's going to be late home this morning from her work. I'm very impressed as I didn't expect her to use it again, So that's progress. 😁

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  Think I'm going to try and persuade Julie my wife to install #DeltaChat and see how she gets on. Also I want to try out voice and video calls privately first before getting adventurous. Baby steps. 😜

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  Anyone able to see if they can open this link please ? It's the second link on gnu.org I've tried this evening and I get nothing. https://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/

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  OK So I'm having that much fun with ed(1) that I've ordered a copy of @mwl@io.mwl.io "Ed Mastery". Fun times ahead! 😉

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  Just thought I'd reinstall #OpenBSD 7.9 again and then switch to the latest snapshot to see if my not being able too boot /bsd past the 14th May snapshot and it now fails to verify the downloaded stuff 😂 Good thing I've still my trusty #FreeBSD laptop. Even more random redoing the sysupgrade -s and it passes straight away and upgrades. Does it boot the /bsd ? No it does not only boot.rd and boot.sp boot.

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  No computer tinkering this weekend for me as I'm babysitting three of my grandchildren at their house in Peterhead. On the plus side they wanted MacDonald's last night and MacDonald's messed the order up as I discovered once it arrived. So I complained and they gave us another complete order too. The kids were well chuffed and stuffed. 🤣

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  [ Update ] Changing the mirror to Oxford resolved this issue but on upgrading to todays 17th May took me back to the last issue where /bsd will not boot error 255. So I rolled back to the last known working snapshot of 14th May and everything works again /bsd boots perfectly. Also re the installer issue, I wasn't the only person to suffer see below link. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=177900949688752&w=2 So today on #OpenBSD snapshot dramas. I obvs am successfully running...

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  OpenBSD update issues I've had are resolved! Thank you to everyone who gave me things to try to resolve my #OpenBSD Dell Optiplex 3080 i5 not wanting to boot /bsd but would only boot /bsd.sp and bsd.rd I tried everything from booting bsd.rd and upgrading to using doas sysupgrade -s but each upgrade failed the same. I even deleted /bsd so it remade it after an upgrade but still the same. Finally after thinking the next step was to do a fresh install I decided to try rolling back the snapsho...

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  Ok so I've found this log file when my #OpenBSD fails to boot /bsd but boots /bsd.booted or /bsd.sp I've not mentioned in mailing lists yet as hoping someone shouts "Haha you Muppet! Fix it like this" 😜

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  [ Solved sort of ] I just installed the previous version of py311-bcrypt version 4.3.0 and I was able to restart radicale again. Oh great just updated my #FreeBSD Bastille jails and my radicale now fails to start with the following errors. [2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Logging of backtrace is disabled in this loglevel [2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Loaded default config [2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Loaded config file '/usr/local/etc/radicale/conf...

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  So glad that I'm running #OpenBSD for my laptops, PC's and #FreeBSD for my servers after reading about copy fail and dirty frag. #RunBSD :runbsd:

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  FYI #OpenBSD We're done with the 7.9 release. The head of the ports tree is now unlocked. Normal development can continue there. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=177807185522395&w=2

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  Got myself some second hand fantastic reading material for the weekend. #Vi

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  @libreleah@mas.to has submitted the #librewolf port to #OpenBSD ports so fingers crossed it won't be too long until the package is available in -current . https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=177652909703481&w=2

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  I'm on iodéOS 6.10 on a Fairphone 4 and have installed the v6 to v7 updater apk but don't see any v7 update as yet.

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  [ SOLVED ] I don't need it at all as it was just for lf the file manager for opening images in imv. I just removed the proceeding setsid from the offending lines and all is good. I'm needing some help from my #OpenBSD family. I used to have a package setsid installed with FreeBSD but cannot find it on OpenBSD, Does anyone have any ideas ? https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/sysutils/setsid

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  Started adding my updated dots for running #MangoWM ( #Wayland ) on #OpenBSD . It's still quite messy ATM as it's a WIP but I'm getting there. It's so amazing being able to run Mango on OpenBSD ! ❤️ :openbsd: https://git.smithies.me.uk/openbsd-desktop-dotfiles/

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  What with all this #Wayland goodness arriving on #OpenBSD allowing me to run the likes of #MangoWM and all those amazing devs who are putting together OpenBSD 7.9 it certainly does feel like "The year of the OpenBSD desktop" to me. I'm living my best life on my computers right now. :openbsd: :runbsd:

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  Got a call from my 15 year granddaughter to ask me to come up to Peterhead as she'd forgotten her house keys and Mum was out. Teenagers... 🤣

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  [ UPDATE - SOLVED ] OK So I have discovered that I do not need seatd started at all. @vlkrs@bsd.network and this post helped. https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1hp0pcd/wayland_works_as_root_but_no_keyboard_response_as/ Basically I just needed to add "/dev/wsmouse1" and "/dev/wskbd1" to /etc/fbtab. OK #OpenBSD friends, Why when I install Sway or Mango ( #Wayland ) can I not get any keyboard control ? I can run them fine on #FreeBSD but on OpenBSD they both start bu...

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  I'm not sure who knows or not and quite frankly don't care but way back in 2007 I came out to my family as trans. My immediate family IE my wife and children all took it very well and we stayed together as we were still in love each other and still are very much so today. Unfortunately my mother and her husband and my Dad and his Wife ( Yeah they got divorced when I was about 5 or 6 ) did not and cast me out from the family. Things like finding out that my mothers side Nan and grandad pa...