Hello gophernauts and occ participants!

The rest  of the week went  off without much incident,  although I
did try some additional things.  toot still wasn't working for me.
After this closes, I will spend  some time determining if it's the
particular build, memory or bandwidth constraints that was causing
it. I remembered after the previous  entry that I was going to try
newsraft  instead  of  snownews,  since  newsboat  needs  rust  to
function. Similar issues as with toot.

Since the  challenge is  in some  ways similar  to last  year, the
workflow  was pretty  comfortable,  save for  fancy webpages  that
netsurf  or lynx  can't deal  with. The  additional limitation  of
bandwidth is  what caused  me to  shy away  from the  internet for
general web  entertainment. No  javascript and modern  features is
one thing, but time to establish  a TLS session and load a typical
webpage on 38 kilobaud is an  exercise in patience,  one that made
me seek  other forms of entertainment  once I had my  fill of irc,
netnews and email.

I ended  up finishing a  library book,  On Tyranny by  Snyder, and
started  a new  library  book  Burning Chrome  by  Gibson. By  the
weekend I was looking at my  thinkpad for a refresh. I did indulge
in modern computers  and network to download and  write the images
to USB. It turned out that yes, it was a partitioning issue that I
was  having starting  with OpenBSD  7.2 upgrade,  and that  a mild
repartitioning seems to have solved that problem. Gentoo got wiped
out as well  but I needed to  refresh that anyways. I  did use the
slow computer to set up the  desktop for distcc duties so I didn't
completely abandon OCC.

Anyways, it  was a fun challenge.  I'm quite happy to  see all the
activity on IRC and it's been a  nice place to hang out during the
challenge. Some of the lessons I learned, especially with the slow
link, should be useful for this year's ROOPHLOCH.