In part 1 of my FreeBSD jail adventure, I switched from iocage to my own homespun jails. This will be a short piece on updating those base jails. Since they are all nullfs mounting the same directories, you only have to update things once. Note Allan Jude mentioned doing symlinks instead of nullfs, but I haven’t tried that. You can hear his comments on BSD Now. Update the Host First, you will want to update the host....
For quite some time now, I’ve always wanted a basic static blog, but never really knew what I wanted. I settled on AsciiDoc because it has a very nice template for basic websites, and is pretty versatile. When trying to build a site in the past, I thought I had to tie together some language and build routes and bla bla bla. Turns out I way overcomplicated things. Templating I templated my pages to meet a scheme....
I am a big lover of coffee. If you know me, you are probably aware that I am rather knowledgeable and enthusiastic about my favorite drink. For many years (probably 10 now) I would go out for an espresso 1-2x each day. Now, I may go out once a week for a social occasion and that’s about it. But why? Coffee is Expensive Back when I started drinking espressos, they started around $1....
I’ve been running FreeBSD on my laptop for under a year now. One of my biggest pain points so far has been completely around WiFi. It’s slow, janky to connect sometimes, and very manual (sometimes not a big deal on that last part). However, I still prefer to use it. Lately, I’ve left my house more to do some stuff on coffee shop WiFi. I used to come out more before I got married and got my Flair 58 espresso maker, however, sometimes it’s nice to get out or, in my more recent cases, my wife has been needing rides to meet people so I’m "stuck in town"....
As of late I have had some pain points with iocage, which I used since I started using FreeBSD in 2017. I came from an Ubuntu with LXD + ZFS background and iocage had the command line interface I wanted that felt familiar with LXD at the time. Well, iocage seems dead now. Its last release was in 2019 and its last commit (at the time of writing this) was September 30, 2021....