I should find my old laptop. Not feeling like coding, so maybe a little #NetBSD would fix me?
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Well, I found two(!) routers so far, which is nice, I'll have a use for those too!
Now to find the charger, back up whatever is on it, and install NetBSD.
Now, this laptop is not in a particularly good shape. The Enter key is missing, for example, it's dirty, and it had overheating problems in the past.
It's not likely I will add it to my homelab, and run it 24/7. It's not likely to become my main NetBSD experiment, because the VM I have on Luggage is probably more powerful than this old thing.
Half the charger found! The part I can plug into the laptop. Now to find the cable to connect it to the power socket.
No luck. But! I can use Luggage's charger, that'll be fine for a bit, Luggage can operate from battery for a few hours.
Looks like I even remembered the /home LUKS passphrase.
According to fsck, / and /home have gone 607 days unchecked. Hm. Then the charger cable should be somewhere here in the home office. I'll have a second look later.
This thing is running Debian 8 (Jessie), last updated around September 2017. At least it's an x86-64 machine!
Now to figure out what to save, and where, and how.
❯ ssh 192.168.1.63
Unable to negotiate with 192.168.1.63 port 22: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss
FML.
@algernon Hy sticker, now that's rare
@sharkfie Hy is one of the reasons I did not delete my GitHub account yet.
