Revisiting SailfishOS – September 2025 Thoughts |
My latest reflections on SailfishOS as of September 2025. UI brilliance, ecosystem struggles, and what Jolla needs to do next.| geekyschmidt.com
Efficiency is the most overlooked opportunity in edge data center design. The cheapest electron is the one not used.| Posts on
Living out in the boonies has its charms: quiet nights, open skies, and an estate that keeps me busy, but internet choices aren’t one of them. Options are slim, and Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT) makes life rough if you want to self-host. Static, routable IPs are what you really need, but out here that’s a luxury. I didn’t want to rely on Cloudflare tunnels, ngrok, or similar middlemen. For a while, I leaned on Tailscale as a DIY SD-WAN (basically a secure mesh network overlay across your de...| Posts on
Thanks to Anirudh for getting me started on the right path! Running Signal Desktop in a Debian VM on OpenBSD I wanted to get Signal Desktop running in a way that integrates smoothly with my OpenBSD host. Since Signal doesn’t have a native OpenBSD port, I spun up a Debian VM using vmm(4) and vmctl. Below are my notes for setting this up, including a few gotchas. --- Step 1: Download Debian ISO Start with the Bookworm Debian netinst ISO (I had issues with Trixie):| Posts on
OpenBSD and Me OpenBSD holds a place near and dear to my heart. Back in the Air Force, I deployed some of the first Snort sensors in 2003/2004 to detect network traffic. I quickly became engrossed with the elegance and simplicity of OpenBSD’s build system and ongoing maintenance. I wish I could dig back through my early eBay purchases and find the little Compaq machine that powered my first home server install. In my dorm room, I built my first PF firewall and router to practice network con...| Posts on
My latest reflections on SailfishOS as of September 2025. UI brilliance, ecosystem struggles, and what Jolla needs to do next.| geekyschmidt.com
