So tired of "Will OpenBSD work well for me?" posts.

There's generally a few things that will rule it out, like wanting it to run Linux apps (or god forbid, windows apps). Other than that? One needs to try it out to know. You're preferences and tolerances are unique to you.

Besides, much of the peanut gallery that will tell you "OpenBSD won't do this or that" are just wrong. They're either years out of date on their information, haven't tried it themselves, or are just making shit up.

Peace lily is in distress

I notice.

Dump water I was drinking onto the peace lily.

I forgot I had turned that water into pink lemonade.

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Can everything just stop falling apart. I can't even keep up with all the broken shit and more keeps happening.

Got a delivery from Walmart and I go to get it. The door knob (after opening) comes off in my hand. Then the door bell rings and it's some exterminator going door to door. I tell him I don't have time and bring in the delivery that is missing the big box fan that was one of two fans I ordered that were the motivation for the whole damn order.

Then I had to go through customer service chat in Walmart's app which doesn't give them my account or order number even though I initiated it logged into their app from the order.  

Then someone knocked on the door while I'm dealing with Walmart chat failing to help me.

I gave up on the chat and check the door and whomever it was gave up.

Then I choose the "call me" option for the return and at least I can read them the order number. They however tell me that the last four digits of the number I give don't match even though that's what it shows in the app. Finally get this all sorted out and my laptop has run out of charge while asleep and won't acknowledge when I plug into the good charging port.

I am unsure why I got out of bed.

Lucky still seems to be a happy mouse.

He hasn't seemed to be eating his main food, big "chonks" I call them. Just stashing them. There's so many in the hammock and on top of the hammock. He eats puffs (although was being picky about the apple strawberry ones recently). I'd worry more but he's definitely getting enough to eat. I've got another of the hanging stick snacks up.

The following day that hanging snack thing was pushed to one side of the opening and his wheel has been rotated like 45 degrees so the bottom is still underneath where he pushed the hanging snack stick to. ​

He's made nests at the two front corners of the downstairs of his cage. HE used to usually have one under the ramp but while he started to build one the last time I cleaned his cage he abandoned it. So sometimes I think he hasn't been around, but he has been hanging out in the back of his cage where I can't see him.

Well, my laptop is back in service.

I ended up installing on another nvme drive and then dd'ing the first 6 megabytes from that drive to the original nvme.

That put back enough necessary goo that my OpenBSD label was restored. I hadn't expected that honestly. I would have figured that I might get the disklabel from the donor disk, which may or may not have been exactly the same. Then I figured I'd restore the disklabel from the backup on /var on the original disk. While investigating that idea, I discovered the disklabel showing on sd1 was different than sd0. Whee.

I _wanted_ to get the original drive booting, but it wouldn't and installboot didn't want to work (honestly, I've _never_ gotten it to work outside of the intaller).

So I copied all my files in /home over. I restored a number of config files from /etc. Then I used my backed up package list to restore the packages. I'm sure I missed a few packages and will bump into some other things.

For now though, I'm back in action.