So, if I ever recommended @system76... disregard that shit.

I had to bury yet another battery in a bucket of sand in my yard for the same laptop. Fracking thing went all spicy pillow on me, again.

It wasn't even decent Linux centric hardware. The gorram Realtek on-board Ethernet was always dogshit slow. The wireless required me to use wifibox on #FreeBSD to get anything beyond 802.11g speeds. The speakers were tinty as hell, and the webcam was pathetic. It all worked.... barely.

I'm not paying for another battery. They took over a month the last time I needed a replacement. I'm going back to my Lenovo x230 from 2012, which is still far more reliable than anything I have wasted money on from System76.

The April 15th, 2025 Jail/Zones Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/7JzanDRuhlg

We #FreeBSD 15.0 goals, jail escape mitigations (please review!), attracting Kubernetes users, configuration file delimiters, an update on Kleene.dev, Jail names vs. IDs, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

Documentation in operating systems is cool. It is possible to extend and rewrite utilities as time goes on, as #freebsd proves. You can still have cool utilities, like #containers and #zfs and #hypervisors, good docs for them and a consistent base system.

I dunno where I am going with this, other than wishing I didn't have to peruse the Arch wiki and the Gentoo wiki for everything when I get stuck, and instead could just "man xyz" and get good answers, speaking as #nixos user.

Why shouldn't a FreeBSD ISO image count as a "custom ISO" Hetzner?
https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/faq#how-can-i-get-a-custom-iso

Do any operating systems other than #Linux (#Windows, #macOS, #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, etc) have an API for non-blocking file IO?

I know Linux has that in #io_uring, which can do almost any IO operation (even fsync) in the background and tell you when it's done, but is that the only OS with such a feature?

#FreeBSD build/pkg server is having a serious outage for about a week already... A ton of packages disappeared entirely from the repo because of failed build jobs. Not only making them uninstallable, running a regular system upgrade with pkg may delete existing versions from your system. "Wait and see" seems to be the only solution (other than building from port). ​​

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I am wondering if there are recently any packages missing in FreeBSD latest repo? Yesterday my system complained that it had no Golang installed and when I tried to run pkg install go, I got "No packages available to install matching 'go'..." Same with other packages like yazi. Both should be in the repo.

I am wondering if anyone has information on why these packages are not available. At least go is quite common and it's really strange why it's not in the repo. Or is it because of my config??

Question for people who use #rkhunter on #FreeBSD:

Wait, first a prelude: The out-of-the-box defaults are so nice, just turn it on in periodical and you get daily reports that are actually meaningful and easy to understand.

Okay,the question: Given that it's still extremely verbose, pages and pages and pages of checks that have passed, what does an alert look like?

Do I have to scroll down all the way to read the exact same unchanging wall of text every day, on every host, for months and months, to have any hope of spotting the word "Failed" on line 2760 one day? Or does it make a bit of noise, put something in all caps at the top of the email, something that I'm likely to notice through the banner blindness?

Aufkleber Nr. 1 #freebsd #unix #laptop #runbsd danke @FiLiS