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@as400 In the past I haven't had much luck with setting things in that tab making much of a difference. I just revisited and by bulk setting everything to "good" maybe there is a ~1 W difference if I squint at the averages. "AMD things" perhaps.I think the CPU number in btop correlates to the package power. My thought is that maybe moving from a 95W CPU to a 35W would cut the power in half. That would be ~10W on a 5650GE but not the 3W on a 5825U.Hmm, I think I just talked myself out of that 5650GE in my aliexpress shopping cart. Ha.

@pertho it usually does and yes, double writes are bad there.

BSD-NL Conference - Early 2026 is over, already... We would like to thank all the attendees who made time to visit us in Utrecht.And of course our wonderful speakers: https://exquisite.tube/w/38gDYhMNTNZimk3GcFnHNa https://events.bsdnl.nl/early2026/talk/W9P9RT/ Let's find out how to get predictable IPv6 addresses assigned to OpenBSD VMsby Florian Obser https://exquisite.tube/w/dkV6kWiT9sp2y6xVwkH1iF https://events.bsdnl.nl/early2026/talk/BGGPZQ/ On DOS, floppies, NetBSD and nostalgiaby Eirik ØverbyYou can see older videos at: https://exquisite.tube/c/bsdnlconference/videosSee you next time!#BSDNL #RUNBSD #BSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD #SecBSD #DragonflyBSD

@bsd_nl Three things I'd like to give a talking-and-walking group for: Coordinating GnuPG, How mt76 WiFi, Desktop Bits

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

Flying for the first time in 30 years. Going to visit the #BSDNL conference tomorrow!(It was transported as hand luggage, in case anyone wondered #RetroComputing #BSD #RunBSD #DOS

@dexter 6th Gen Intel

@ltning DOA

@andersgo responses we can get behind!

For anyone planning to go to BSDCan 2026, please remember early registration period ends this Thursday April 30th. Early registration comes with free ticket to the Saturday reception. Don't miss out! Register today!https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html#main#bsdcan #runbsd

@bsd_nl @imil something for you?

Would you like to get more out of bsddialog(3)?BSDCan has a tutorial for that:Introduction to TUI Programming using bsddialog with Benedict ReuschlingThursday 2026-06-18: 13:00 - 16:00Shell scripts have a bad reputation when it comes to usability and eye candy. Modern users find a blinking cursor on a a black screen leaves a lot to be desired when having to interact with a shell script. In this tutorial, we will create shell scripts that look like a GUI application: with buttons to press, input fields, select boxes and animated progress bars. These so called TUI (text user interfaces) programs still use shell script functionality as the backend, but are lightweight enough to not introduce too much overhead. Users will appreciate the ease of use of your shell scripts and you can rely on them to give you the data and visualizations you to need. At the same time, the TUI application is not difficult to learn and implement into existing scripts.More info:https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Introduction-to-TUI.html#unix #tui #shellscript #runbsd #bsdcan

thyme#openbsd #freebsd #runbsd #foss #comic

@mro hello Marcus! I'm not aware of any of them, but boosting your post so maybe other will be able to help!

NetBSD turns 33 this Sunday! To celebrate 33 years of clean code, portability, and zero bloat, Challenging the rest of the fediverse to help hit this year's funding goals.Also do drop a screenshot of your uptime, uname -a, or a pic of the weirdest hardware you've got running NetBSD right now. (RockPro64 NPF routers or Pi's hooked up to retro CRTs highly encouraged).Throw some money at the developers keeping the real UNIX alive:https://www.netbsd.org/donations/#NetBSD #UNIX #RetroComputing #OpenSource #runbsd #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

Having a "reflective" afternoon.On the topic of free operating systems, I have been playing with these lately, and recommend if it suits usage (alpha order).- Alpine Linux (my daily driver)- Chimera Linux- Elementary Linux- FreeBSD- OpenBSD- Solus Linux Not "mainstream" suggestions per se, and that's kinda the point. Caveats re: glibc/musl, nvidia support, etc. apply. If I had to have nvidia support for my primary workstation I'd probably go with Solus (KDE), or at least try it, in spite of systemd.I'm starting to scratch the surface on - CachyOS for my son's gaming rig. Pretty much what it says on the tin. I like it. Arch could use a bit of polish. We'll see how it goes on real hardware. Others that I haven't run much beyond playing with the iso, but am intrigued by, mostly by intended use case tbh:- Mint- ZorinI used to run these for years and years and years but don't nowadays:- Arch- GentooExcellent, but the time intensity ... ~20 years ago I used to run Gentoo in a government research agency data centre. Even came up with an "ansible-like" set of deployment scripts/framework and whatnot in /bin/bash+openssh to manage them (pre-dates Ansible). Fun times... the time... the time.Gentoo was bracketed by RHEL in the past and CentOS as the successor. CentOS was fine but gave up a lot of performance way back then. Shifting priorities, server hardware was still following Moore's, and all that.I flirted with Ubuntu a bit over the years. Could never really get into it back when it was decent. I won't touch it now.Today, I think I'm done with Debian. Too static for my tastes - stuff gets too stale. Sure, there's Testing/Sid but there's also other options at that point. Now that I'm a sysadmin just for myself I can embrace using whatever I want. Ha. I'm all about community projects nowadays. Corporate software will eventually disappoint you so it pays to just not go there in the first place.Deep thoughts.#Linux #RunBSD #HomeLab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting #AlpineLinux #ChimeraLinux #Elementary #ElementaryOS #FreeBSD#OpenBSD #SolusLinux #Solus #LinuxMint #ZorinLinux #Gentoo #ArchLinux #CachyOS

@release_candidate My dual-boot thinkpad gets about equivalent battery life under Linux and NetBSD. NetBSD doesn't suspend properly (though it does on an older thinkpad that is netbsd-only), which I should probably try to debug at some point.

And again @stefano outperformed me While I'm writing my home control system in #C for #NetBSD , he already preparing talk about his home control system for BSDCan Thats the difference between North, with it's cold weather and low atmospheric pressure, and the South with humane environment @bsdcan