The other day, I received my Ploopy Adept in the mail, after having waited since mid-December when I placed my preorder. I have been a trackball user for a few years now, mainly having used the Elecom HUGE and the Kensington Orbit Fusion. The Kensington was awesome, but the angle was a bit too steep for my wrists. The Elecom has been my favorite by far, but the stock bearings caused me a lot of grief with the insane amount of stiction....
I roast coffee at home regularly. I haven’t updated my roasting log, I need a more lazy man approach to converting it all nicely. But I still do roast, and I use the neatest, dumb script ever..which I know works on OpenBSD and Linux. And it’s public domain #!/usr/bin/env sh COFFEEDIR="$HOME/Documents/coffeeroasts" echo "Coffee country of origin?"; read origin mkdir -p "$COFFEEDIR/$origin" filecount=$(ls "$COFFEEDIR/$origin" | wc -l | xargs) start_timer() { terms="xterm konsole gnome-terminal xfce4-terminal mate-terminal rxvt urxvt xterm-256color" if [ $(command -v xterm) ]; then xterm -e sh ....
Like many of us, I have been using SSH since the beginning of learning how to learn Linux, or some other UNIX-like OS. My usage has moved from password logins, to SSH keys, and now I have picked up on SSH certificates. This is an introduction to using SSH certificates with OpenSSH. Before I get to my pros/cons, what the heck are SSH certificates? Think of getting an SSL/TLS certificate....
Once a week I pop out the microSD card on my church’s recorder and get the sermon uploaded. I do this on OpenBSD, and also mount/umount the microSD card via the command line. On another note, I use the SSH ControlMaster feature when logging into my servers. Why is this related? You’ll see. The other day I mounted the microSD card doas mount /dev/sd3i /mnt/usb Then cd’d to that directory to copy out the music file....
It’s not often I backup and restore my desktop, but I do like having good backups for my desktop computer, especially since I rely on it for work. I use OpenBSD for my desktop operating system. I’ve been running -current since May 2022. 99.9% of the time it has been very good to me with no headache. Every now and then though I run into an issue, and it is something I can work around and maybe even just wait a day and sysupgrade....