Introduction

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I attempt little and accomplish still less with great success.

I have NEVER committed a code change to any free software project (including FreeBSD) as a result of being contacted or forced by a government organisation;
I have NEVER received a warrant from any government organisation;
I have NEVER received a gag order;
I have NEVER received a National Security letter.

at(1) correct “+ 1 minute”
modularize Jails configs
Document SuperMicro secondary GPT mishandling on some hardware
- …and firmware upgrades via FreeDOS, if possible
see about getting more things linked into writeable /tmp in the live environment
- in doing so, we can do things like set a root password and launch sshd to ease remote installs
- sshd_config, passwd, master.passwd, what else?
Document running Poudriere in jails.
Document T420 setup notes
- Correct DRM, kern.evdev.rcpt_mask=6, synaptics, sound, etc.
- kld_list acpi_ibm, coretemp, i915kms, what else?
- ~~maybe figure out why Linux can run xbacklight with an X tweak, while we need intel_backlight~~
  - this last is largely obviated by backlight(8) as of FreeBSD 13
- Thinkpad charge thresholds
  - https://github.com/sghctoma/thinkpad-smapi
Understand/document usbhid handling and set-up for (e.g.) Logitech Illuminated Keyboard.
barrier(1) keyboard mapping snafu
system beep control - sleep/wake and xset b, etc.
- I like the backlight(8) approach
submit patch for better hostname explanatory text in installer (id est, encourage FQDN)
Things I want that GNU/Linux does (although “is it POSIX?” is a useful question to apply to some):
- dmesg(8) -w and -T
- date(1) -d
- mount(8) automatic use of fstyp(8)
- ability to control characteristics of system beep, both via xset b and without X - e.g., beeo on acpi events
- automatic detection of filesystem types when trying to mount them
- mount(8) shows NFS protocol version

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