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Anyone familiar with this issue ? Control key on 2012 macbook not registering for some reason, haven't seen this problem before.

Hi, I have been using OpenBSD since 7.6. Since the start, I noticed that bass (audio) sounds weaker on OpenBSD. I listen to electro/techno, so it's kinda obvious to me.

Dell, Lenovo, MSI, ASUS, Realtek, IDT, etc, all have this issue. While on Linux, the same hardware would punch.

Searched around and asked A.I. Couldn't find any definitive answer. Am I the only one having this issue or am I hallucinating like A.I.? LOL

Thanks.

Additional Info: No equalizer/sound effect/pulseeffects/easyeffects on Linux. Just plain audio, pulse/ pipewire and Windows sound the same to me. Only on OpenBSD, bass is weaker.

I use stock audio chips shipping with computers, no software or external modification.

I ENJOY OPENBSD TREMENDOUSLY and it has become my daily driver. NOT bashing on it.

hello guys! can someone tell me what a terminal good choice for a OBDS with philosophy KISS/suckless/harmful - Set, set and forget

most people will tell you OpenBSD does not support the mid 2012 macbook pro's BCM4331 and they would be right, but I'm an idiot and I have some extra ai tokens laying around so I figured why not say, "magic genie, stop making cat pictures and print working unix driver." while I take a nap. Probably won't work for a million reasons but I thought I'd ask a bit about what people thought, if this was a reasonable waste of time or not.

Hi all. Longtime OpenBSD user here, running 7.9 now

I know LibreWolf is a third-party Firefox fork and not something the project maintains, and I understand keeping Firefox-derived browsers current on OpenBSD is significant work. I'm not asking anyone to take that on lightly.

My question: is a LibreWolf port to OpenBSD technically feasible given how closely it tracks upstream Firefox, or are there blockers that make it impractical? And if it's mostly a matter of someone doing the work, is there appetite for a maintainer to step up — or has this been considered and rejected before?

For now I'm on Chromium, which works well. Just curious whether LibreWolf is a realistic option down the line. Thanks for all the work on the ports tree. 🙏

Hi all,

Running OpenBSD 7.9 on a ThinkPad T490 (Intel UHD 620) 32 GB ram. The fan noise is wearing me down. It's not constant — it's that every single time I open something, or even just log in, the fan ramps up for a few seconds and then settles again. Feels like it's reacting to short CPU load spikes rather than actual heat.

What I've already done:

- apmd in -A mode (auto). -L makes the machine too sluggish, so that's out.

- Installed VA-API for Chromium (intel-media-driver), so video decode is off the CPU.

Still, the fan acts like a bunch of raccoons every time the CPU twitches.

Is there any OpenBSD-side workaround or fix to soften that fan response — something to smooth the ramp on brief load spikes — short of patching the kernel? Or is the fan curve purely firmware/EC and there's nothing the OS can do? Just trying to understand what's actually possible here before I give up and live with it.

I really hope someone out there has some tips and tricks, or developers are reading this ?

Hi guys. I've built a couple of ports on my local machine because mirrors have outdated packages. And I tired of moving them to my local mirror.

How I can upload updated ports to the official mirror?

• Is there an equivalent of pacman -Sp ? Here are the details of the command

• Are there any OpenBSD:: modules that can be used to print the entire resolved dependency tree for a certain package to STDOUT?

• If I download a package, with its required depenedencies on a local directory, can I install the package with pkg_add ?

• How does pkg_add handle package verification? Do I need to do anything after downloading the package files, or will pkg_add take care of it on its own?