In an older blog post I focused on creating FreeBSD base jails with VNET on ZFS. Today, I want to do the same thing with Thick jails, since I have some use cases where base jails don’t quite do what I want to do in terms of management. Thick Jail? A thick jail in creation is basically half the steps of a base jail. It is a jail with its own complete userspace, no nullfs mounts and the sort....
I have been paying to host my Matrix synapse server for 2.5 years now. It has been one of my favorite projects to host because I have found a great communities this way and have been able to learn a lot being on Matrix. The problem for me though is, the synapse server is a bit of a resource hog, and has grown to be expensive. Synapse Synapse is the current Matrix server, in addition to dendrite which has been a gradual work in progress....
Many years ago I was told about a way to speed up my SSH connections to servers I have recently made a connection to. The idea was that a session would be kept open for a certain amount of time, even when you had closed out of your sessions. I couldn’t remember the name, so I forgot about it until today when I was trying to find out ways to speed up my Ansible connections....
I have been an OpenBSD desktop user since May. In my blog post, I mentioned I was having some audio woes with OpenBSD. Namely, when running Firefox on OpenBSD it wouldn’t take long for the audio to sound like someone was taking a hammer to my ears. Now that may be an exaggeration, but someone might as well have because the stuttering frustrated me to no end. I tried a handful of solutions:...
Back in April(?) of this year when I got my AMD RX 6700XT graphics card I came across FreeBSD still not supporting the card. So, I switched my desktop to OpenBSD. In that same step, I had to fix Windows because it put some of its bootcode on my FreeBSD drive. Long story short, I switched to Linux to do my gaming for a few months because Windows wouldn’t install....