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After running into some issues with the homeserver, it's obvious it's well past time to upgrade the OpenBSD boxes - from 6.5 to 6.8. The problem is that I'm not sure I remember the password. I spent some time today trying to work out bioctl and figuring out how to check whether I remember the password correctly. That was a rabbit hole that didn't really seem like it was worth the time, so I backed up my homeserver config and hopefully the upgrade goes smoothly.
Also doing some work on my deck. I created too small of a partition and gparted screwed up the resize, so it's time to do a reinstall. Another pi box that's not being used had a 128G SD card, so that's now in the deck. Then, Alpine stopped booting. Then, the touchscreen died.
So, going to have to source something there.
I've been investigating the use of Alpine for the base install; it came recommended by jeremy. What makes alpine interesting is the diskless root - if the board loses power, there's less chance for corruption. However, once I got the base image installed (and I looked in both armv7 and aarch64), there wasn't an i3 package. Digging around brought up the community repos.
The other thing is that the diskless mode comes at a cost: memory. The 3b+ that I'm using "only" has 1G of memory, and the overlay fs resides in memory, reducing what's available to the rest of the system. OOM conditions were a problem with the pitop, but that was with trying to use a much heavier environment. This might be better. Then again, I'm running into problems running out of space installing firefox - the rootfs is only 512M (because of said memory constraints), which means firefox is running out of space trying to install. I think I've spent enough time on this, time to abort and switch to Arch.
In the background right there's a Dust marathon going on. One of the good things about the mainnet, I guess.