During the whole ordeal, I kinda-sorta bricked the machine because there's a geli (BSD crypto stuff) option to ask for the passphrase once that not only fails in my use-case, but also blocks USB HIDs (i.e. the keyboard) from being initialized.
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phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 03:53:32 JST phryk 🏴 And *then* I had to learn the hard way that automatically mounting #ZFS without already loading it from the bootloader is categorically impossible on #FreeBSD.
And it seems like this is a wontfix? Like, wanting to mount ZFS pools/volumes automatically without depending on ZFS before init is invoked is just considered… not valid anymore?
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phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-May-2023 03:53:32 JST phryk 🏴 As the UEFI default for USB was to not wait for initialization, that made keyboard input impossible – even to get into the UEFI menu and change the setting.
So I had to take that box apart and disconnect all drives so I could start the machine and have the UEFI be active long enough to do the HID initialization so I could get into the UEFI menu and tell it to always initialize HIDs before bringing up the bootloader.
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phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 22:54:56 JST phryk 🏴 @evan That is one incredibly naive take and it is deeply worrying to see it from someone in your position.
Capitalism has unabatedly invaded and monetized every facet of life it could for longer than I can remember…
To take an example from just yesterday: Docker.
But also GitHub with its Pilot AI.
The FOSS space is getting progressively more monetized, which is a feedback loop giving more power to those with more money. This is not a good development.
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phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 20:56:21 JST phryk 🏴 Serious question for #mpd #musicpd users:
If MPD was completely re-done, what features would you want?
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phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 20:56:19 JST phryk 🏴 @waweic Oh yes, so much.
I still haven't quite figured out how to do this on BSD tho. Linux has a function that will just notify you, BSD has something that is similar, but apparently more involved and I'm not yet sure if it can feasibly be used to monitor the whole collection.
Getting this to work portably might be a hassle, but I absolutely consider this a must-have.
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phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 01:43:08 JST phryk 🏴 @lain In the AST case I tried for about half an hour but it just kept adding new subtle errors that exploded when actually running the code.^^
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phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Feb-2023 01:23:14 JST phryk 🏴 @ovid I've had ChatGPT write snippets, but they aren't really reliable.
For example it absolutely got the API of pythons ast module wrong (which to be fair, is likely a result of the documentation). It did however point me in the right direction to solve the problem I was working on.
But, crucially, I haven't seen it do any actual software *engineering*.
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phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Sep-2022 13:47:40 JST phryk 🏴 Me planning my new multi-monitor setup involving 2 monitors, 3 machines, 4 graphics cards, 2 displayport switches, 2 adapters and 8 cables.
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phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Sep-2022 01:00:36 JST phryk 🏴 Do I have enough GPU yet??
I find it funny that both cards are 10 years apart but in the same number range, with the old one even being slightly higher than the new one.
The new one (top) is an RX 6600 XT, the old one (bottom) is an HD 6850 – both cards from the Radeon series which I have chosen again for the same reason, too – AMD being more FOSS-friendly.
Tho I'll still have to wait for the Linux drivers to be ported to FreeBSD, hence I'm keeping the old card in there for now. ?
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phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Aug-2022 16:45:49 JST phryk 🏴 Ugh. The Sass project deprecated libsass so now the only official implementation is the Dart one – and Dart is a google language and they don't support *BSD.
Gotta say this feels a lot like vendor lock-in… :thonking:
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phryk 🏴 (phryk@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Aug-2022 04:21:54 JST phryk 🏴 @Gargron Simple, two bill items:
1: Hosting, $100
2: Embezzlement: $319900