In today's exercise in bravery/silliness, I'm going to complete reconfigure the gateway via #ansible.
Lately, I've just been running single updates:
ansible-playbook gateway.yml --tags=pf
Today, the tags are coming off. All the updates.
ansible-playbook gateway.yml
A new #blog post appears!
I built a native GCC 14.2.0 for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger PowerPC.
Hello again FreeBSD-Nauts! Yesterday you guys came through, and with your assistance I was able to get my keyboard's media keys working. 
Today... I have another little problem. My motherboard has 12v RGB headers, so I went and purchase some RGB LED strips for it. I installed them, turn the PC on, and they turned on as they should. Then I installed and ran OpenRGB. OpenRGB detected my Keyboard's and mouse's RGBs, but not the motherboard's RGB headers.
Any ideas? Please assist! Thanks!
This Week in Plasma brings a massive performance improvement to Spectacles screen recordings, a cleaner login screen for multi-monitor setups, and a less cluttered configuration page for displays.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/29/this-week-in-plasma-zero-vhi-bugs-and-much-more/
Juniper Networks is hiring a Senior Staff Engineer to work on #FreeBSD:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/deb-goodkin-b282924a_juniper-networks-is-hiring-a-senior-staff-activity-7311506787973640192-fxXT/
#fedihired
After 2 weeks of fiddling with #rust in my spare time, my code finally can play wav file via #FreeBSD OSS. Here's the shortest example of how to do that that I figured out: https://github.com/mekanix/oss
Note I'm new to the language and I probably didn't write the best code. For explanation how ioctl works in rust, I wrote a short blog post: https://meka.rs/blog/2025/03/18/rust-and-ioctl/.
My next endevour will be to figure out how to combine the code that I have with https://docs.rs/dasp/latest/dasp/ and https://book.vizia.dev/ to build the simple DAW. After that, I need to figure out how mmap mode works. Oh what fun!
Just tried latest GhostBSD 25.01-R14.2p1 release on ThinkPad X220.
Works really well.
The only thing that I needed to tweak were Fonts rendering settings:
- DPI: 76
- Smoothing: Grayscale
- Hinting: None
After that (and logout/login cycle) looks really well.
Just tried latest GhostBSD 25.01-R14.2p1 release on ThinkPad X220.
Works really well.
The only thing that I needed to tweak were Fonts rendering settings:
- DPI: 76
- Smoothing: Grayscale
- Hinting: None
After that (and logout/login cycle) looks really well.
Has anyone tried to port this to FreeBSD or somehow installing them in FreeBSD?
Been juggling hardware, moving VMs and jails around, and I shoehorned myself into a bit of an odd situation.
I had two Intel NUCs, one is a weaker Celeron CPU, with a meager 4 GB ram. The other is a beast with a much better CPU and 32 GB of ram.
The one with the 32 GB and strong CPU has the easy job, and the weak one has the hard job.
The easiest solution was to swap their drives, and network cables.
The only software change I had to make?
sed -i bak s/re0/em0/g /etc/rc.conf
on the first one
and, shocker.....
sed -i bak s/em0/re0/g /etc/rc.conf
That was _it_. Both systems came up clean because the #FreeBSD network subsystem isn't a clusterfuck.
That doesn't work in Linux.
Wow, another riveting tale of nerds throwing #AMD chips and #FreeBSD onto overpriced laptops like toddlers in a sandbox. 
Spoiler: It's mostly a lot of "bobulate," followed by endless disclaimers only a mother could love. 
https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2025/03/16/framework.html #nerdsintech #techhumor #laptopsandbox #bobulate #HackerNews #ngated
@justine
I recommend reading this evident provocation.
http://xahlee.info/linux/why_tiling_window_manager_sucks.html
I am happy with #labwc.
I have configured the titlebar with double left click to iconify and middle click to close, xfce4-panel as vertical #deskbar with intelligent autohide.
I use "Run or Raise" with single key shortcuts for most used applications.
Here is a link to an old implementation request of mine.
https://github.com/labwc/labwc/issues/673
Below is the current state of my #FreeBSD desktop environment
#FreeBSD Hello FreeBSD-nauts. As a FreeBSD newbie, I run into all kinds of little issues with my PC quite frequently to be honest.
Today, as usual, is not a big deal, but it is annoying as hell. I cannot get the volume knob in my Keyboard to work.
Help please! Thanks!
Friday at last.
Working with #fortigate wifi and #windows clients are tiresome and stressful sometimes..
But hey, i got #xfce4 .20 on my "new" #Freebsd
machine
#bhyve next
Good times 
freezr 
