Oh neat, TIL about old.lemmy.sdf.org. That's great!

Neat, how do you manage lemmy? Any particular client you use?

• Where I live taxis are not safe, neither is public transport for someone that looks like me, uber/car is the safest option to get around unfortunately.
• Taking photos of family and events
• 2FA
• Google maps - don't think I could get around without it.

My feeling for Go and why I went with it for my project is that I think it is the language that sucks the least for server development since I value simplicity, decent performance, fast feedback loop, portability, offline docs and good tooling. It also has a big userbase, and I have a bunch of obscure tooling elsewhere so I felt I didn't want to introduce more esoteric choices. But it felt a bit sad that it was the best option.

I also looked at Elixir but found the layers of abstractions a bit intimidating and I heard stories that compilation times becoming long.

Ocaml ticks most of the boxes of what I look for, but the library ecosystem is immature for server development IMO.

Do you have any language you prefer?

Yeah I'm very new to the language; I like the simple toolchain and network libraries but the way I need to reimplement a bunch of primitive functions surprises me a lot (no math.Max for ints ??). I feel productive in Go, but a part of me feels that is just because I'm outputting so much boilerplate haha.

If I could have ocaml with the toolchain and library ecosystem of Go, I'd be happy.

It was suggestions from the subreddit and irc that it's probably a harddrive failure. The kernel devs wanted some more details, but at that point I had already deleted OpenBSD and gone back to Alpine. I might give it a spin again later and if the error happens, I'll be sure to include the full panic report.

Thanks for suggesting smart, I gave it a spin and it seems the harddrive is healthy?

$ doas smartctl -H /dev/nvme0n1
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

My new suspicion is that I did something funky with the kernel parameters and fstab to try and speed up the system which made it panic.

EDIT: Welp, the issue was with the RAM. Now that's replaced, all is well.

I wish haha. I love their work and philosophy but kept getting kernel panics when using OpenBSD. Support told me it's a harddrive failure, but my system works just fine with Linux. Oh well, Alpine is nice in that loksh, doas, cwm are all well supported and the installer feels very similar to OpenBSD