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• Name: Ellen Dash
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I do a lot of work with Python, Rust, and C. You may know me from my work at Ruby Central, helping maintain RubyGems and Bundler.

• https://klarasystems.com/articles/automation-and-hacking-your-freebsd-cli/ — Info about some CLI tools integrating with libxo for JSON, XML, etc output.
• https://github.com/Juniper/libxo

It looks like support for the AMD RX 6600 GPU will be in FreeBSD 14.0, and may also be added to a 13.x release at some point.

The FreeBSD-CURRENT mailing list may also be relevant, since (as I understand it) -CURRENT is currently for development of 14.0.

This information is now on my website.

Unreliable, buggy, WIP.

sudo pkg install linux-c7-nss linux-c7-atk linux-c7-at-spi2-atk linux-c7-cups-libs linux-c7-libdrm linux-c7-gtk3 linux-c7-alsa-lib linux-c7-ca-certificates

Use this script:

#!/compat/linux/bin/sh

mkdir -p ~/software
cd ~/software

if [ ! -d Discord ]; then
    curl -L 'https://discord.com/api/download?platform=linux&format=tar.gz' | tar xzf -
fi

cd Discord

#PA_SOCK_PATH=$(sockstat | awk -v me=$(whoami) -F'[ \t]+' '$1 == me && $2 == "pulseaudio" && $6 ~ /native/ { print $6; exit 0 }')
#export PULSE_SERVER=unix:${PA_SOCK_PATH}

/usr/bin/env ./Discord --no-sandbox --no-zygote --in-process-gpu --v=0 "$@"

mkdir build && cd build && LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib -lexecinfo -lcompat" cmake .. && make

These are some of the notable problems I encountered while settling into using FreeBSD as my main OS for the first time in over a decade.

!!! This has been made a lot more complicated and harder to debug by the fact that apparently PulseAudio got installed anyway and I don't know how or why, and it starts with Firefox for some reason even though Firefox used to work without it.

Initially, I had lots of general audio glitchiness. Intermittent static/buzzing noises. Using virtual_oss allowed me to record desktop audio (with OBS, recordmydesktop, etc). The solution appears to be using an 8ms buffer for virtual_oss and avoiding PulseAudio. (Any time I install PulseAudio, I have trouble keeping it from starting and taking over audio for the whole system – which is a problem, given how poorly it performs on my system.)

NOTE: I am having trouble with intermittent audio glitchiness again. Apparently it wasn't a solution so much as an improvement.

• Tries to drag in PulseAudio by default.
  • PulseAudio has terrible performance on my system, so I'd rather not have it.
  • The OBS binary package pulls in PulseAudio unconditionally.
  • Making sure PulseAudio was not installed, then building OBS from ports with PulseAudio disabled works.
• You can't use OSS with the “Desktop Audio” feature. Use the sndio input client source instead.
• Install mesa-gallium-va and go into Settings → Advanced or something like that and enable ffmpeg encoding to get hardware acceleration.
• Should probably also install mesa-gallium-vdpau although idk what it affects.

Blender is slow, by default. As someone else on the forums discovered, vblank_mode=0 blender or LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE=1 blender does the trick.

Even if I continue to need one of those kludges, I'd at least like to know what the cause is.

I added a blu-ray drive to my computer, and ran into the following problems:

• I can't play, let alone rip, a blu-ray disc.
• Ripping a *CD* (using abcde) takes upwards of half an hour:idea: for some reason. On my girlfriend's computer, it takes roughly 5 minutes per CD. We swapped disc drives for unrelated reasons, and it still took half an hour on my system and about 5 minutes on her system. (TODO: Try seeing if it's reproducible on other OSes on my system.)

These ports either don't exist, or are outdated enough that it caused me problems:

• progress — no port/package.
• Discord — proper port/package is missing, but usable via web browser.
• Odamex — latest version as of 2023-01-18 is 10.3.0. version in ports is 0.7.0, which is multiple years old.

These ports were previously nonexistent or outdated, but are now both existent up-to-date enough that it doesn't cause me issues:

• Signal — now available as signal-desktop
• ruby-install — now up-to-date