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S.M.A.R.T. status with smartmontools on OpenBSD 6.6


Using smartctl is widely described on the web for Linux and FreeBSD based environments, but it may be non-trivial in OpenBSD case.
This is because all of the disk operations are mostly inherited from 4.2BSD operating system.
As the usuals: partitions, filesystems and labeling are excellently described in OpenBSD Handbook I won’t cover that in following article.

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Noise-free voice input with adaptive echo-cancelling and PulseAudio


A COVID19 pandemia forced many people around the globe to go online with theirs jobs and learning.
As the schools, universities and workplaces are getting moved to the web, so are the conversations. No matter which communicator you are using, you want be heard clear.

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