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There are 141 tips in the FreeBSD tips file that is displayed by fortune every time you log into a FreeBSD system. root@geonosis:~ # grep -E '^%' /usr/share/games/fortune/freebsd-tips | wc -l 141 Most of the time, I know the tips very well. Sometime, however, I do learn a new thing.Today I Learned thatTo set a quota of 10 GB for the user named foo on a ZFS dataset, run the following command: # zfs set userquota@foo=10G pool/home/foo The zfs userspace command can display the quota and current space usage: # zfs userspace pool/home/foo To unset a quota, assign "none" as the value. -- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org> This is actually two tips in one. First, is the userquota in a filesystem, and the second one is how to see these quotas, which I had no idea about.So I tried running it on one of my larger systemsroot@geonosis:~ # zfs list genomic/abi/proj/cfdna NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT genomic/abi/proj/cfdna 39.9T 7.10T 39.9T /mnt/proj/cfdna root@geonosis:~ # zfs userspace -S used genomic/abi/proj/cfdna TYPE NAME USED QUOTA OBJUSED OBJQUOTA POSIX User 10039 22.1T none 78.6K none POSIX User 10017 6.64T none 102K none POSIX User 10048 6.35T none 110K none POSIX User 10052 4.51T none 7.11K none POSIX User 10011 326G none 1.34K none POSIX User 10065 1.42G none 14.7K none POSIX User 10012 51.3M none 1.77K none POSIX User 10001 125K none 13 none POSIX User 10018 38.1K none 3 none POSIX User 10031 1.50K none 3 none POSIX User root 512B none 1 none I don’t integrate our storage systems with LDAP, instead we just use the UIDs in permissions, but I can check who that is on another system.antranigv@ssh-02:~$ id -nu 10039 anahit Time to inform anahit that she has the record for most used storage in our largest project That’s all folks…

Found #NVIDIA released new legacy 580 branch of #driver 580.178.04.Unfortunately, NVIDIA_Changelog included in upstream tarball doesn't seem to have what's changed in this version (same description as previous one), looked for info and found this. https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/pdf/NVIDIA_Data_Center_GPU_Driver_Release_Notes_580_v12.0.pdfAnyway, looks fine for RTX A400 installed in Minisforum MS-01 and Quadro P1000 (notebook) in ThinkPad P52. So filed Bug297298 and corresponding review D58674 for upgrading #FreeBSD #ports. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=297298 https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58674

@BastilleBSD the Splunk forwarder is so much easier in comparison. I feel sad for Wazuh. But hey, at least Wazuh is free...

The August 4th, 2026 Jail/Zones Production User Call is up:https://youtu.be/7sHPd_5RZPYWe discussed PkgBase and mkjail, daemonless.io SBOM, SPDX, and Cyclone DX support, a local daemonless.io package cache, a new service manager for #FreeBSD, Unifi OS Server under daemonless.io, consistent utility syntax, and more!"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.orgThis content is not AI generated

For my next trick, running `mkjail upgrade -a` to get the jails still on #FreeBSD 15.0 onto 15.1`mkjail` will be greatly simplified under #pkgbase.

Found #NVIDIA released new Production Branch of drivers 595.91.07 and new New Feature Branch of drivers 610.57.04. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/277702/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/274515/I've filed Bug297265 (corresponding review is D58639) and Bug297266 (corresponding review is D58640) respectively for upgrading #FreeBSD #ports. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=297265 https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58639 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=297266 https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58640

As people kept asking for the current modules. You can find them right here:https://git.gyptazy.com/gyptazy/sylve-ansiblePlease report any feedback to gyptazy@gyptazy@gyptazy.com.comIt would be great to have fully working and tested modules in Ansible Collections upstream. Please note, they're still WIP as things personal didn't bother me but should be made more human friendly like bytes vs Mb (memory, disk,..) and some other smaller things.

I did not even realize but now my #FreeBSD has been running 15.1-RELEASE-p2, it simply upgrade from 15.1-RELEASE-p1 during regular pkg upg runs. I guess that it something impressive achieved by the new pkgbase tool. It feels like running a rolling-release #Linux distro now.#BSD #Unix #RunBSD #pkg

@vlkrs No. You only started noticing jokes after AI became a thing. I have been making them long before that.

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@mcepl Thank you for your interest.I usually keep an eye on online marketplaces like eBay, looking for opportunities in the €100 to €300 price range. Most of the listings come from resellers who acquire/get used Braille displays from associations or schools that replace their older devices with newer ones. So, while the displays are used, they are generally still fully functional.Most of the good deals I've found are in the United States. Ideally, though, I'd like to find something in Europe to avoid customs duties and the high shipping costs.

@grahamperrin Optimus is a trademark of NVIDIA for their implementation of hybrid graphics.And other manufacturers like AMD calls almost the same thing differently.From the CPU-side of the view, PRIME is the underlying interface for iGPU and dGPU (not limited with NVIDIA) to offload heavy graphics tasks to mighty dGPU, mainly using efficient (but poor in performance) iGPU.Before Austin's port of nvidia-drm.ko appears, the only "working" way to achieve hybrid graphics was to use VirtualGL, with configuring individual "screen" for iGPU and dGPU respectively, and screen rendered by dGPU was needed to be transferred to another (for iGPU) with software BitBlt, as physical framebuffer cannot be shared with this method.And current implementation of nvidia-drm.ko relies on PRIME to work. Without PRIME, there's no way (arbitrations) for dGPU to access (part of) physical framebuffer of iGPU.See detailed and precise info by Austin here. https://badland.io/prime-configuration.md

@grahamperrinI am migrating my mini homelab from Linux.

@dexter I don't have a ThinkPad X280, but on my laptop I've occasionally had no sound because the output gain 'ogain' had dropped to 0. Setting it back above 1 fixed it.Also, if the audio group exists on your system, add your user to it. That avoids having to adjust /dev/mixer* devices as root.If you're using an interactive mixer utility, make sure the mixers it shows actually match the devices under /dev. I still need to update mixertui because the version in the Ports Collection may display some stale "ghost" mixer devices beyond the highest /dev/mixerN.I'm running FreeBSD CURRENT, so I'm not sure whether the situation is the same on 15.1. Of course, audio behavior can vary quite a bit depending on the sound chipset.Probably the freebsd-multimedia@ mailing list can help clarify any doubts and troubleshoot hardware-specific audio issues.

Hey #FreeBSD folks, I could use a hand if you have a Coral TPU.i have ported the Apex and Gasket drivers to FreeBSD:* https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58561* https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58563The original Linux driver has a long-standing bug that will never be fixed because the repository is archived and Google love to kill products that are fully working. (i prefere if they gave it the community)Some forks have already patched it, by my TPU was selved, because i thought i broke it (turn out it was a driver upgrade)My goal is to use Coral TPUs for NVR workloads on FreeBSD appliances. (a POC, i'm not launching a product)I dont own a Coral USB device (It price also skyrocketed from 30 to 120USD), so I need testers. I also intentionally only ported the parts of the driver that I understood and actually use, instead of blindly copying everything. That means I need people willing to plug hardware in, break things, and report back.The driver works in 15.1 too, if you need instructions let me know .. but i assume a TPU is for the tech savvy people so i don't want to over explain.ping @grahamperrin @erikarn

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The recording of the July 30th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:https://youtu.be/n1TEmv-6ZcIWe discussed Eurobhyvecon during EuroBSDcon, #FreeBSD Chromebook CoreBoot and UEFI support, migrating to Sylve, a new utility to save and restore PCI state, Intel CPUs and the vmap_pfn() bug, and more!"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.orgThis content is not AI generated

FreeBSD Security in Production: Vulnerability Response and Operational Best Practiceshttps://klarasystems.com/webinars/freebsd-security-production-vulnerability-response-best-practices/― join Klara’s Allan Jude and FreeBSD Security Officer Gordon Tetlow for a technical discussion on securing production FreeBSD systems. 2026-09-02 15:00 UTChttp://timee.io/e/freebsd-security-202609#FreeBSD #security #hardening #vulnerability @allanjude

@grahamperrin Will look into it. thanks!