Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

The article discusses the Lemote Yeeloong laptop, a Chinese MIPS64-based netbook capable of running OpenBSD, which the author acquired to explore both the unusual hardware platform and the OpenBSD operating system. The piece traces the historical context of China's indigenous technology development through the 1986 "863 Program," which was launched to help the country catch up in high-tech sectors including semiconductors after recognizing its lag behind Western and Soviet advances. The author details plans to install and configure OpenBSD on the device, including unconventional modifications like running it from the SD card slot and building a browser from source code.