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   Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 23-Apr-2026 07:55:29 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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   • Morgan

   @kaidenshi it literally only takes a minute of configuration to turn up those limits if you want to use more ram in openbsd. i did that on my dev machine, where i regularly use tens of gigabytes of ram on various things.

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     Morgan (kaidenshi@exquisite.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Apr-2026 07:55:32 JST Morgan

     I am slowly coming to understand that the reason some applications crash often on OpenBSD is not the fault of OpenBSD, but the fault of poorly written applications that have tons of vulnerabilities. OpenBSD is designed to be a secure operating system as one of its main goals, and trying to circumvent these safety guardrails by "optimizing OpenBSD for desktop use" -- i.e. tweaking sysctl.conf to the max -- defeats the purpose of having the guardrails in the first place.

     If you want an OS where applications are free to roam full of holes and exploits without crashing, use Linux I guess. It will happily continue to allow those poorly written programs to run, giving the user a false sense of stability. Meanwhile, I'm starting to prefer safety and security over "desktop performance at all costs". If a program misbehaves it should die, and OpenBSD will kill it before I even know it misbehaved.

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