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2023-01-01

I hope everyone has made it into 2023 safely.

Yesterday morning i started a new sourdough, and by this morning it had grown an impressive amount. I fed it new flour and it has barely done anything since then. Last time i tried making sourdough the same thing happened, after a few days of regular feeding it just stopped doing anything, so i am cautiously pessimistic about this run, if it doesn't work out again i might just try a different rye flour.

Besides that i am fighting the thinkpad 600x again, after the announcement of the beta for the upcoming NetBSD 10 release i tried to get it going and realized it won't boot. Some further testing with all the released i386 ISOs that i found reveals that sometime after the 7.x releases booting from USB (using plop, since the bios can't boot from USB itself) stops working on this machine. To be precise, the bootloader loads and starts to load NetBSD but at some point on the first number the little progress spinner stops, before it shows a second number. I expect Netbsd 10 itself to work since i had installed 9.2 from cd and it has the same problem with booting from USB, but burning CDs is a hassle and wasteful so i haven't tried this yet. If anyone has pointers on what could be the cause (or solution) of this issue feel free to send an e-mail.

I am also currently trying to install a multiboot system with just a bunch of versions of debian on the thinkpad to try and understand some issues with booting from partitions that are "towards the back of the disk", where grub would just go into rescue mode because it can't find it's modules on the partition, i assume because the bios can't read further than some smallish number of gigabytes.

In the "unrelated computer stuff" category, i have been plagued by the desire to buy computer gadgets, specifically small computers like the hp jornada models with a keyboard, psion mx5 pro, or maybe zaurus sl (but that keyboard looks like it would not feel nice to use), currently i am looking at an eeepc701, mostly because it is still fairly modern, so not a full on pain to get working with linux or bsd, and it is actually within my budget. I also want to start a bit of a collection of unix computers (besides itanium, itanium can burn in hell :P ) , but that is not financially feasable at the moment.