Rubenerd

A while ago there was a post on HN about pkgsrc[1][2][3], which works on Mac, among other platforms. I haven't tried it, but it may be worth a shot. [1]: <https://rubenerd.com/using-netbsds-pkgsrc-everywhere-i-can/> [2]: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27293108> [3]: <http://www.pkgsrc.org/>

https://rubenerd.com/ is a dude from Australia who posts about BSD, anime and various tech-related stuff.

I've thrown "home server workloads" at my Mac mini. It stays on 24/7 anyway, because idle power draw is negligible. Syncthing is a great use case. Wherever I take my laptop, the files stay in sync between the two devices; I don't need a third device to act as a server, or iCloud, or any other cloud. Miniflux. I read my RSS feeds from three devices, so I want to track read status and save bookmarks. It provides a Google Reader-compatible API (yes it lives on), so I can plug NetNewsWire into it. It's an exit node for Tailscale. Did I mention Tailscale? It's like still being on the same LAN anywhere you go. It doesn't matter if your home server doesn't have a public IP. Grafana is cool for anything you can plot, as long as you can mash it into something vaguely resembling a time series. Sensor readings, data pulled from some API, CSV export from your bank, your chess ELO, etc. It's often combined with Prometheus. So you can also scrape anything that speaks enough HTTP (which is... many things, these days). I want to explore something like Navidrome or Jellyfin; for now I use Syncthing for my music library, but even if I could run it on iPhone, the whole collection wouldn't fit. Unfortunately it seems there are no decent apps. You're also free to explore uncharted territory. Rubenerd is hosting a "house-wide" SQL database: <https://rubenerd.com/our-personal-database/>

I remember this heavily commented post a few years ago: Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM https://rubenerd.com/weird-al-had-100-gb-of-ram/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32734840

I also liked how the '[ok]' moved to the right after GPU drivers have been loaded :) - https://rubenerd.com/files/2024/alpine-openrc.png Of course its OpenRC related and not Alpine. IMHO it would looked more 'nice' if the '[ok]' stayed where they were - at least till 'login:' prompt - but I know that its just implemented in a way that 'write [ok] after space from right side of the screen' and as resolution increased - it happened what happened. They could just move the '[ ok ]' or '[fail]' to the left - beginning of the message - that would 'solve' that problem also.

I want to point out Ruben Schade bookmarks page. It's quite wonderful. An OPML file that is also a webpage. https://rubenerd.com/blogroll.opml

mcedit does have save on F2 (which I guess is carried over from DOS Norton Commander): https://rubenerd.com/files/2009/3612703566_52304223da_o.png

I like the anime girl that's included on every page. He explains Rubi the mascot here: https://rubenerd.com/about/#mascot

If you're browsing the site on a mobile phone like I was, you probably won't see the image of the mascot on the right-hand-side. Even if you click the "mascot" link, you'll just go to a text description of it. The image is here: https://rubenerd.com/[email protected]

The libretto was a fine machine! I'd certainly be interested in a modern-hardware version of it with the same sturdy, rugged design. (Here's a size comparison from wikipedia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/EEEPC901_LIBRETTO10… and here is one more: http://rubenerd.com/uploads/photo.libretto.jpg)

[EDIT:] See https://rubenerd.com/about/#mascot and https://rubenerd.com/anime-restore-my-blog/ . Looks like a typical harmless Anime nerd to me. [/EDIT] Not just any schoolgirl, but a schoolgirl drawn in "Manga"[1] or "Anime"[2] style, AFAICS. Lots of people are Manga and/or Anime fans, and many of those perhaps to such an extent that they feel it's a major part of their identity, so they want to show it some way. And a lot of those Japanese comics and animated films just happen to have young people of both sexes as their protagonists, so of course there will be schoolgirls in them. And much of that is, as I've understood it, "perfectly ordinary" comics and animations, like any "Young Adult" literature in Western culture; no more (explicitly) sexualised than Harry Potter or Star Wars. So not necessarily "creepy", in the sense of sexualising schoolgirls... But yeah, from what (little) I understand of Japanese popular culture, sexualising schoolgirls is a pretty big part of current more-or-less accepted Japanese social mores, which is reflected in Manga and Anime too; see the whole phenomenon of "Hentai".[3] And I suppose there's a whole lot of Manga and Anime that is just titillating -- not quite explicitly, but borderline sexualised. I have no idea about the proportions between the categories: I read quite a lot of Marvel and DC comics (and, ahem, some porn -- but those were wildly different things back then) in my youth, but that's so long ago that it was before the rise…