Tag:bsd

All the articles with the tag "bsd".

• [FreeBSD] Apple Magic Trackpad 2

  September 17, 2022 | 10:23 PM

  I followed the Handbook closely and it only got me to the point of confirming my USB bluetooth dongle was recognized, and could see my Magic Trackpad. From there, it was a mystery. It’s safe to follow the guide but it will be a deadend around the time you finish device pairing. Here’s the rest of the bits I needed to connect my trackpad, which by the way automatically connected on startup, something that *bluez* even fails to do on my Arch install.

• [FreeBSD] Basic backups

  September 18, 2022 | 09:03 PM

  Just stashing my primitive backup script so I don’t forget where it is and how it works.

• [FreeBSD] Damn, I locked myself out

  September 16, 2022 | 10:17 AM

  I was toying with my `/boot/loader.conf` and found that `zfs_load="YES"` felt awfully similar to `zfs_enable="YES"` in my `/etc/rc.conf` . So I experimented with commenting it out as a test. 👀 The next 15 minutes were somewhat painful but I did learn that yes, that is required to boot your OS.

• [FreeBSD] My journey begins

  September 15, 2022 | 09:04 PM

  I recently decided to learn FreeBSD. As a long time Linux user I have been curious about BSDs, and understood that MacOS/Darwin had grown out of BSD in some way, but beyond that it was *just another *nux* in my mind. That concept in itself was a bit hazy to me as well, I understood there was some forking and history behind all of them but I didn’t understand the relevance.