2026 phlog
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 2026-04-06:
    I upgraded the T430 to NetBSD RC3 amd64, no issues so far.
    But RC2 worked great for me, so now NetBSD will work even
    better :) Yesterday was at my cousins for Easter Dinner with
    2 others.  The dinner was very good and it was a nice time.
    A friend of ours cooked and he is a very good cook!    

 2026-03-19:
    The power button on the Thinkpad T430 pretty much stopped
    working a few weeks ago.  I jury rigged something but it was
    just barely "good enough".  I found out the power button is
    part of the keyboard, so I ordered a replacement keyboard
    from newegg.  It came in yesterday and I replaced the old one
    today.  It was very easy to replace, except for attaching the
    cable, it took a few tries.  When attaching the cable you
    need to be very careful since the attachment is quite
    delicate and hard to line up.  Everything is working great
    now.

 2026-03-18:
    Due to Issues with NetBSD package "Emacs v30", I compiled
    Emacs with 'xaw'.  Emacs with gtk3 can at tiles hang X11,
    with xaw works without issue.  I noticed Emacs with xaw also
    seems to display fonts better then gtk3.

 2026-03-08:
    I upgraded the T61 to NetBSD 11.0 RC2 i386 from 10.1, it went
    very well and pkgsrc had no issue either.  On amd64 some
    packages had to be done manually because 'pkgin upgrade' had
    issues with items related to firefox.  The i386 does not have
    firefox due to its memory so all the firefox insane
    dependencies do not apply.  Firefox is a big PITA for all
    Operating Systems.

 2026-03-07:
    Upgraded my NetBSD amd64 System from 11.0 RC1 to 11.0 RC2.
    The upgrade via sysupdate(8) went very well with RC1 and I
    believe RC2 will work just as well, if not better.  I hope
    to find time tomorrow to update my old i386 system from 10.1
    to RC2.

 2026-02-26:
    From the "people still use diskettes" Dept.  I have a USB
    3.5" diskette drive given to me from where I use to work.
    Someone on IRC was trying to format a MS-DOS diskette using
    one of those on NetBSD.

    So I decided to play around too.  I found out NetBSD has no
    issues using a USB Diskette drive.  But seems OpenBSD has
    issues with it.  I found that interesting.  I will mess around
    with that and OpenBSD as time permits, but glad to see NetBSD
    is fine using that device.

 2026-02-22:
    Due for another snow storm again, this one will be much
    bigger than the others.  Since December, on average, we
    have had 1 or 2 small to medium storms per week.

    This year seems to be rather similar to what we had in
    the 70s and 80s!

 2026-02-21:
    NetBSD pr has been fixed and uploaded to pkgsrc.
    I updated my system and dillo now runs fine.

 2026-02-17:
    So far NetBSD 11.0RC1 is working great.  But one pkgsrc issue
    occurred, dillo crashes.  So I created this pr for the issue.

    https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=60014

 2026-02-16:
    Upgraded my NetBSD amd64 System from 10.1 to 11.0 RC1.  The
    upgrade via sysupdate(8) went very well.  pkgsrc update to
    pkgsrc 2025Q4 for 11.0 had no issues either!

 2026-01-01:
    Happy 2026, lets hope for a big wipe-out in this year's
    midterms!  December 2025 weather wise was interesting, it
    reminded me of Decembers in the 70s and early 80s.  Small
    Snow Storms once a week or more and the lake froze.  I do not
    know if it is safe to be on, but in the past, usually it
    would be safe by Jan 1.


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