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

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

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

It has not missed a single moment.
It has sailed through every so called cloud outage.
It kept working flawlessly even when the Internet connection was down, because it simply does not need it.

This is the kind of technology I love.
Of course, it runs NetBSD!

rpicaldaia# uptime
6:23PM up 78 days, 20:16, 4 users, load averages: 0.33, 0.17, 0.13
rpicaldaia# uname -a
NetBSD rpicaldaia 10.1 NetBSD 10.1 (RPI) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024 mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/RPI evbarm

#NetBSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData

[mkj@social.mkj.earth]

@stefano That's technology, and computers, doing what they are supposed to be doing: the same thing, day in and day out, in a deterministic fashion, based on software where it's actually possible to tell what's going on.

Yay for that!

[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.