Adam Simpson @adam@social.basementcomputer.site

@patrick lol

Setting up my laptop as a wireguard client was painless until DNS resolution wasn't working right. Turns out I needed to switch to openresolv because nothing is ever easy 😂

@peregrine yep, exactly. Ted Lasso is the happiest show I've watched since Parks and Rec came out. However, Parks and Rec took a few seasons to find that note. Lasso found it in the first 30 seconds.

@peregrine they are the antidote to 2020.

Waiting for tar to finishing archiving 247GB of files...

🎶 🎧 Mac Miller's: Don't Mind If I Do is on repeat today ya'll

Good follow up to the hysteria from yesterday around macOS and logging applications https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/

While still a terrible engineering decision this isn’t the privacy nightmare I thought it was.

Ugh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS2lJNQn3NA

In the process of setting up unbound to block ads on the network. So far it's been quite pleasant to work with.

If these numbers hold up in real world it’s lights out for x86: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive

Pretty great guide to setting up a router/firewall using OpenBSD: https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/openbsd-router-guide/

I've done the same but used Alpine Linux as the base. All the general principles still apply.

TFW when you leave your mpd server playing music all night and then reconnect in the morning mid-song.

With the AMD Ryzen 5000 launch today it's pretty clear to me that once Apple releases their Apple Silicon Macs the best CPUs in the industry are going to be either Apple Silicon or AMD Ryzen. Intel is third and it's not even close.

@peregrine glad it's all working well! New machine sounds great!

@wezm nice post!