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I sometimes believe that Phabricator is AI
― active impediment.
Like, where documentation goes to die.
Process without progress.
<#FreeBSD

That cage-break, a ratpoison inspired wayland compositor, is available in the ports collection tells you all about the sublime 'windowmanagers on Wayland' array that is available on FreeBSD.
#freebsd

The install description for a KDE Wayland session on FreeBSD has been updated with some additional software choices. The page on Codeberg is up to date also.
#freebsd #kde

QEMU: all aarch64 FreeBSD guests no longer boot.
Virtual Machine Manager, Kubuntu 26.04.
#QEMU #FreeBSD #Kubuntu

I was wondering why none of my #FreeBSD systems got the latest #nginx - so I searched... and it took me a good hour again to figure out that the OS is by default insecure; you need to actively change the repo settings in order to get recent software with bug fixes - latest instead of quarterly:

Change between `quarterly` and `latest` package set used by `pkg` tool in FreeBSD
The pkg tool in FreeBSD is usually set to draw upon either the quarterly or latest package set. The latest set may churn more often with updates, while the quarterly is meant to be more stable but ...

#FreeBSD #HotTake: Even though everyone with deeper #firewall juju than myself says #pf is better than

@… I heard the fan spin up on the host after I logged out from Plasma (X11) on a FreeBSD guest.
Pictured: excessive use of the CPU by sddm-greeter-qt6.
A separate bug, with the same underlying cause? I wonder.
#FreeBSD

To: The Uninitiated
Re: wallpapers
Rewarding yourself by downloading 10 new wallpapers from wallpaperflare.com is an appropriate way to spice up KDE on FreeBSD. Style as below.
EOM
#freebsd #bladerunner

I'm glad to finally see this:
#FreeBSD catching up another bit with

Brave New PKGBASE World
Let me put this into first sentence to make things clear – I like PKGBASE and I think it is improvement over freebsd-update(8) and base.txz and kernel.txz – what we currently have in Fr…

Getting there. Obviously I had a headstart running it on Slackware. And FreeBSD has the best Wayland wm repos, bar none. Also: gnarly things in FreeBSD: bluetooth, how to get that Linux application running, Linuxalators et al, sound and keymappings. But the Handbook is superb, just work my way through it over the days.
#freebsd

Plasma: high CPU usage whilst the screen is locked
<#FreeBSD

Quick history of process isolation on unix
'
Somehow we ended up with an overengineered mess of leaky abstractions for cloud-based, vendor-locked infrastructure.
'
https://hypha.pub/back-to-freebsd-part-1

@… whilst logged in with the screen locked, the issue seems to be with (or affecting) kscreenlocker_greet – installed by security/plasma6-kscreenlocker.
I wonder why I didn't notice this when I made the bug report.
#FreeBSD

On the FreeBSD front: volumekeys working. Sound output fixed. Ubuntu subsystem installed (installing the rpm of Filen didn't work, so I'm gonna have a go at the deb). Librewolf all good. This all took just around 35 minutes.
Then I spend around 2 hours jerking around with the waybar and alacritty configs, theming Gruvbox. Time well spent 😂 😆
#freebsd

FreeBSD base package downgrades in response to a forced upgrade of all packages.
I might take a closer look at the weekend, if the typescript file for the session is available.
#FreeBSD #pkgbase

In the end it has become MangoWM on FreeBSD. That was literally low hanging fruit, since I've been dabbling in it for a couple of months now, on Slackware. So, all that keybind and tags kind of stuff is basically all there, ready to use. Off we go!
#Freebsd

@… the spirit of open source will never allow it. Instead, it's to be renamed:
LibreDaemon Noir Ultra
#FreeBSD

@… FreeBSD failures at wake/resume time might be less likely with 15.1.
#FreeBSD #WiFi
Cc @…

FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p3 on ARM64 in QEMU:
― SDDM, pictured, is barely usable.
After login to Plasma (X11), resolution is limited to 800 x 600.
How can I avoid the issue with SDDM?
Host: Kubuntu 25.10, Virtual Machine Manager with Ramfb for video. Guest: non-base packages from the latest repos.
Not reproducible with FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT on ARM64 in QEMU on the same host.
#FreeBSD

With all the love that OpenBSD is getting now (and rightly so!), and my good ol' Slackware KDE back on the main NUC, I feel the time is right to finally spent serious time in FreeBSD. Let's install it on the hybrid graphics laptop and use it as my daily work driver for the next month at least? I'll report about the trials and tribulations over here.
River, Mango, Niri. Let's go!
#freebsd

272902 – Security: allow passphrases for WPA-EAP to be saved without using clear text
<#FreeBSD

@… also, for convenience, the overview page:
<https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.4R/>

@… are all three failures with #FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE?
Cc @…

FreeBSD desktop installer script test: quick start
#FreeBSD

@… can you recall how the corruption occurred?
Post-recovery, I see the absence of free space before the ESP; and the change in free space after partition 4.
#FreeBSD

Out with the old.
In with the new.
<#FreeBSD

@… what's the systemd context?
#systemd #FreeBSD

RE: #FreeBSD

@… thanks.
<https://bsdsec.net/tags/freebsd> nits:
― 'Security Advisories' is the wrong generic heading for an array that includes errata notices
― a qu…

@… video group membership is certainly not required to start X.
#FreeBSD #documentation

@… what's the breakage?
#libvirt #FreeBSD

@…
pkg info drm-66-kmod | grep -i -e repos -e version
pkg info drm-latest-kmod | grep -i -e repos -e version
Working from memory, I hope that's correct.
#FreeBSD

@… better with 16.0-CURRENT?
(As if you have nothing better to do with your time.)
#FreeBSD #NVIDIA

ZFS SAUSAGE
#FreeBSD #OpenZFS #NAS #MissingConsonants

@… for ZFS (the default),
zfs mount -a
@…
#FreeBSD

@… I am not "offended" by the five characters in this screenshot.
Also, I trust the Senior Director of Technology for The FreeBSD Foundation to do what's appropriate in extreme cases such as this.
#FreeBSD

pkg upgrade -Fqy
For a single run, with conflicts, there may be multiple prompts for one more solver iteration.
I think this is negligible, not worth reporting as an issue. @… do you agree?
Thanks
#FreeBSD

@… thanks!
ALT text here includes two commands (without the breakage that's difficult to avoid in Mastodon).
#FreeBSD #patch

@… I respectfully disagree with a blanket multi-tree ban, for reasons that I should not discuss in public.
A line has been crossed, repeatedly, in the past.
#FreeBSD

@… confirmed:
– the bug is reproducible without the desktop script.
#FreeBSD #bug

<https://redd.it/1rgx8ts> … thirty-six hours later, no-one has spotted the two deliberate mistakes.
Note to self: be genuinely careless more often. Much more. Especially at weekends, when no-one's paying attention 🙃

#FreeBSD #Linux #kernel #jails