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Don’t think anyone except Peter Thiel and Hasbro will argue that Monopoly is a good thing. ;-)

SpaceX has made the investments/innovation to better-serve the satellite internet market that already had players in it; HughesNet, Viasat, Iridium / Globalstar. Those were the price-gouging Oligopolist incumbents who Starlink is disrupting with a 10x better service for considerably cheaper.

Totally agree that SpaceX doubling the price from $10k/month to $20k looks really bad especially if they’re doing it to existing customers.

But the way I see this (as a non-private-jet-traveler) is: Starlink is doing a “Robin Hood” and making the Rich (who can all easily afford it) pay for the expansion of the service which will benefit all the rest of customers. And if the 0.01% decide to switch to an alternative supplier, that’s good for competition. So in a way it’s anti-monopolist. ;-)

“Juice?” As in they have the best product by a wide margin and are charging a totally fair price for it that reflects demand. Nobody flying private cares about the price of Starlink.

It’s worse if they are squeezing people in underserved rural areas… our monthly has gone down from €35 to €29 and still getting the same speed.

The second SpaceX offers direct-to-cell in our area we will switch to their service as we’ve never had any issues with it whereas the incumbent mobile/broadband providers regularly throttle even when we’re paying top tier prices.

Totally agree there needs to be more competition and preferably not from other billionaires … but until then, Starlink is great!

Bankruptcy? How much longer can they sell a dollar for 50c?

100% looks like a BYD/Hyundai; the front (exterior) is hideous. Surely this isn't the production version of the vehicle? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Makes sense. Great use of the Switch controller for flight sim! Sounds like you’ve got your system dialed in. ;-)

For others who cannot live without Bluetooth on their main machine, consider a USB Bluetooth adapter. see: https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.1/ubt.4

This announcement thread really isn’t the place to discuss or debate the data.

The OP stated they couldn’t find any data to compare the relative security of Linux vs. OpenBSD.

CVEs are independently, objectively verifiable and provable data. This is the dictionary definition of a verified “fact”. It’s not anyone’s opinion. You don’t have to like it or me.

Love you all.

Is the code you ran on your OpenBSD available (e.g. on GitHub) for others to test? Curious what async issue you faced, did you report it? Or ask for help addressing?

Yeah, time is finite and fleeting and the older I get the faster it seems to go!

As a teen I had infinite time to compile Linux and debug stuff. Now I just want to spend time with family/outdoors and not be stuck in a windowless room negotiating with a black box. ;-P

Ah, losing the 2.4ghz USB dongle ... Sucks. Feel you. :-(

Wireless Earbuds/Headphones are a legit use case. (Still use bluetooth with iPhone every day, sadly, still addicted to the convenience of AirPods ...)

But I've got decent wired headphones for my OpenBSD setup. bonus: never have to charge them. ;-)

Even more curious now: what do you use the Nintendo Switch controller for on your computer? Have you got it hooked up to play games on your PC? Or do you use it for robotics or other I/O?

You are correct; OpenBSD is secure by default. And it's not subjective at all.

The homepage of https://www.openbsd.org proudly states "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!" if they didn't have the evidence to support the statement, the internet would have forced them to remove it by now. ;-)

Remote (exploitable) holes are the ones we all care about.

The Data:

Compare the number of CVE vulnerability trends over time between Linux: https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/33 and OpenBSD: https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/97

It's not even close! It's nearly two orders of magnitude higher for Linux. This isn't anecdotal or “vague opinion” CVEs are facts.

You can ask the follow-up question: Why is that?

And there are many reasons. It could just be that Linux having more users/eyes means more bugs are surfaced ... But you need to dig deeper to understand why OpenBSD is so much more secure, the core team of OpenBSD proactively reviews the security of other OSes and when they learn something, they rapidly implement the feature/fix in OpenBSD.

Again, read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD_security_features Many of the proactive security features OpenBSD has are not implemented by other OSes. And in the case of kernel-level Crypto, they won't ever be because US export restrictions.

100%. I put off learning/using OpenBSD for a decade until a breach at a client (we weren’t responsible for DevOps/SysAdmin) made me pick it up because I don’t have time to be a full-time Linux Sysadmin anymore. Just want the servers to run without having to think about them. Wish I’d done it sooner. Lost at lot of time on Linux, Docker, K8s, etc. that I could have skipped completely with OpenBSD. Our servers are an order of magnitude simpler now, just single services per VM and I sleep better. ;-)

Qubes OS uses the Linux kernel. Without wanting to start a flame-war and with all respect to Linux, it’s not even close. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD_security_features

Ah, we have all connected via Ethernet. Side-stepped the WiFi issue. ;-) But have read of others successfully navigating it.

Interesting! Curious which Bluetooth device(s) you can’t live without.

FreeBSD has the same roots as OpenBSD but the former has a “compatibility” focus whereas the latter has the security focus. Having a background in security, the choice was obvious for me. But each person/org should decide based on their needs. Haven’t had any issues running it on all major hardware (Dell, HP, Lenovo, Apple, etc) the UI isn’t as pretty as macOS on Desktop, but it runs Firefox & Chrome, etc. so you can do everything you need. If you have an older Lenovo or Mac lying around collecting dust, dive in!

How long did what take? Learning the essentials of OpenBSD, budget 4-6hours. Switching over servers from Ubuntu, an hour for the first one then 10mins each after that. You can copy config with your favourite tools; most have ports for OpenBSD already. If you want to learn more in-depth, read: Michael W. Lucas Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition: Unix for the Practical Paranoid. Highly recommend it as teaches many fundamentals most software engineers skip.

We use OpenBSD for our VPSes on Hetzner, bare metal (for security focussed clients) and older (but still good) hardware in our Home Lab. OpenBSD is excellent on older (no longer supported by Cupertino) Apple hardware. We have an Intel Mac Mini Cluster with near-perfect uptime. If you need to run any kind of server (Web, Mail, DNS, NFS, Database) where you need stability & security, look no further. Some learning curve, but totally worth it.

With all the security issues constantly being uncovered in other Operating Systems - which will only accelerate with Ai - it’s time everyone considers OpenBSD. Their decades-long security-focus is second to none. We have fully converted from Ubuntu/Debian to OpenBSD. No looking back.

OpenBSD for the layer where you need the highest security. We use it for hosting our Postgres clusters. You could easily use it for your VPS. There is a learning curve. But if you’re already comfortable with Linux you’ll pick it up in a few hours.

Waterford -> WaterFox for anyone wondering: https://www.waterfox.com/

Brave is my default browser for non-sensitive tasks; e.g. most web browsing, GitHub, news, etc. The built-in ad-blocker & tracker blocker alone is worth it. Use chrome for testing. Stock Firefox for anything sensitive.

The USB-C Port on the Switch is capable of 1Gbps if the home network and internet connection supports it. Just need the right "dongle".

where did you study? and is it still like that?

Clearly Apple Execs either are being myopic about investing in space/satellites or they know something we don’t about launching future sats that make Globalstar partnership obsolete … They could be working on their own constellation and launching with SpaceX to tightly integrate the whole stack.

A $7,700 fine when they have 5000 queen ants with each potentially being worth $220 is a slap on the wrist! Meanwhile the 5000 colonies the queen ants were extracted from will collapse and the knock-on effect to the ecosystems will be catastrophic for decades! Ants act as keystone species by engineering ecosystems, regulating populations, and fostering biodiversity. The judge in this case is clearly not a biologist/entomologist and doesn’t understand the need to send a clear message when sentencing.

Nope. Google+ was a ghost town. They made the right call to shut it down and focus their efforts on YouTube.

The videos and comments on YT are superb training data, every bit as good as Google+ was.

In 2025, YouTube’s total revenue (advertising + subscriptions like YouTube Premium and TV) surpassed $60 billion. If they spun out YT it would have a market cap $500-600bn putting it in the top 20 companies. Google+ would never have been worth much as the 7th most popular social network.

For anyone wanting the video explanation from the creator, watch: https://youtu.be/P_wt-2P-WBk

100% Agree they will release an A19 Pro version in due course. Meanwhile the MacBook Neo with 8GB RAM will sell like hot-cakes!

Genuine question: who would buy a MacBook Neo to run Windows on it…? Surely people buying Neo are trying to escape MicroSlop?!