Post by @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

A new progress report on living with (Net)BSD, with some artistry, too.

This original illustration is succubus daemon. Installed by running pkg_add succu, and can be started with default settings with /etc/rc.d/succu onestart.

She's a bit wonky and rough around the corners, and she looks more like a ghost than a succubus. But she's highly configurable, and her ~source code~ incantation spell is written by a human being and can be understood by a human being as well.

The illustration is a mix of traditional and digital art, and all the digital parts were done on NetBSD 11.

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A heavily pixelated row-resolution drawing of a short-haired girl with sharp demon horns. She's wearing a slightly revealing dress, and waves an orange NetBSD flag. She's all plain and white as a ghost. The background is heavily dithered gradient from red to black, as if the illustration shows a bit of hell

A photo of a small postcard-sized piece of paper with a pencil sketch of the same devil girl on it

A screenshot of a computer desktop, showing a scanner application Xsane in the process of scanning a sketch of the demon girl. The desktop wallpaper shows an anime girl from Dennou Coil

A photograph of a digital graphical tablet showing an interface of GNU IMP graphical editor with a devil girl image loaded in it. There's an LCD monitor in the background, as well as some wires.

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khm

@khm@hj.9fs.net 1 hr. ago

what tablet is that?

Nina Kalinina

@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt 1 hr. ago

@khm this is a hand-me-down Huion Kamvas with a 1920*1080 screen from 2017

khm

@khm@hj.9fs.net 1 hr. ago

thanks!

Nina Kalinina

@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt 23 hr. ago

Let's get some basics sorted out. Using NetBSD is generally more difficult than using Windows, MacOS or Linux. It is harder to configure, its hardware support is not as good, and there's fewer software options available. Depending on your needs and circumstances, using NetBSD (or OpenBSD, or FreeBSD) as your main operating system might be difficult or even impossible.

So, why bother, you might ask.

Well, I keep thinking about a metaphor; it might not be the most apt one, but I can't think of anything better: imagine that you're vegan, and you absolutely do not want to eat animal products. It is very obviously a choice. Now, if the supermarket does not sell vegan food, you are going to have a problem. Maybe you'll make your own tofu and seitan. It is not an easy life, but you try. Maybe you can't fully commit to it, because it's hard, but you feel like you (and everyone else) should have a choice.

So, if one wants to choose not to use LLM-tainted software, I'm afraid NetBSD is one of a few options.

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@cy@fedicy.us.to 17 hr. ago

I wouldn't say it's harder to configure, but there are definitely fewer hardware drivers, and less software options. That's just from random popularity. There's just more boots on the ground for Linux.

Ironically, one application that does support BSD is Wine.

emulators/wine - The NetBSD Packages Collection

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