My old friend, a Raspberry Pi A+, has been running my home heating system for months, just like it did back in 2014.

[anachronistjohn@zia.io]

@stefano@bsd.cafe Exactly!

astarte# uname -a
NetBSD astarte.zia.io 10.0_STABLE NetBSD 10.0_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Fri May  3 03:16:46 UTC 2024  john@frigg.zia.io:/usr/obj-evbarm/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/GENERIC evbarm
astarte# uptime
 6:08PM  up 659 days, 21:51, 3 users, load averages: 0.76, 0.83, 0.69

[iamleot@mastodon.sdf.org]

@stefano Lovely hostname too!

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@iamleot eheh it was quite straightforward. The base NetBSD Raspberry PI image is called "rpi" - it's in the room where the "caldaia" is so it was easy to assign.

Yes, I have zero fantasy for hostnames

[iamleot@mastodon.sdf.org]

@stefano My main laptop is called "boh". My workstation is called "abacus" that is the local shop where I bought it. And my Pinebook Pro is called "pinebookpro" (not just Pinebook because that's the hostname of my original Pinebook)!

You have definitely more creativeness than me!

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@iamleot ahah that's great!

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@iamleot "boh" is fantastic.

[peterkotrcka@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano @iamleot ahaaaaaa, I know this word... It's the same as the one used for the bottom part of the moka pot, vero?

[peterkotrcka@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@iamleot @stefano for me, it's easy, I use "slovakized" names of the computer brand or their product lines.

So we have PCs such as "ajbiemko" (Lenovo, but I still derived it from IBM), "hapecko" (HP), "lajfbuk" (Fujitsu lifebook), "espajr" (Acer Espire), etc.

[carson@social.chittom.family]

@iamleot @stefano What OS are you running on the Pinebook Pro? I bought one a couple of years ago, but I ended up just letting it sit powered off for months and months. In the interim, it seems that Manjaro ARM, which the laptop shipped with, has stagnated.

[iamleot@mastodon.sdf.org]

@carson @stefano I'm running NetBSD. I have added an NVME and installed it there after updating u-boot on the SPI. (I should have some old toots documenting that. On January the uSD card weared out and so I have recently reinstalled it! :))

[iamleot@mastodon.sdf.org]

@peterkotrcka @stefano Oh, yeah! It's exactly the bottom part of the moka too!

[goldfish@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano I haven't run any BSDs on my pis yet (of which I have too many...). I really want to soon, but I just don't have a real use for it yet. Other than playing around, of course.