Nina KalininaMar 14

OpenBSD adventures, day two. My MacBook with arm64 is running fine under OpenBSD, but there is no video acceleration, so it can't play full-screen videos.

I started to think what I can do about it, and I realised that we had a few e-waste Chromebooks bought for $20 apiece. It's 1.5GHz Celeron, and it is as dodgy as laptops get: it is spray-painted, it is made of cheap plastic, and the keyboard and the touchpad are both kind of only look like real ThinkPad but there were so many corners cut making it that I can't type "root" without it missing a letter or two every other time. This is what kids apparently were using in schools ten years ago or so?

Some things are glacially slow, but Xfce4 is quite usable, and it can play YouTube in 720p. Everything the laptop has to offer seems to be working (even webcam).

It works incredible for an ultra-low-end device from 2013.

Show threadNina KalininaMar 14
On a whim, I connected this e-waste laptop to my graphical tablet (second hand, 2017? model). It works; the double-mouse situation (pen+touchpad) is a bit wonky, and the pressure events are not recognised. I bet there's a setting for it somewhere. I installed pre-packaged Krita, and the whole setup seems to work more or less as well as it does on MacBook Air M1 under MacOS. This machine, according to benchmarks, is on par with Athlon 64 from 2006 or smartphones from ten~ years ago
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still running under openBSD?
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Show threadNina KalininaMar 14

@Etch9 yep! I'm now building libresprite (libre Aseprite) on it, as it isn't packaged, and it seems to be compiling it just like a little champ it is. On a 1.5 GHz Celeron. With a 32GB SSD. On a system that, by all measures, is very obscure.

And if it doesn't compile, I can get a Linux emulator or wine. The possibilities...