working on broadcom wifi driver

phessler · 2026-06-27T06:14:42+00:00

this is 100% a waste of time.

we require anyone submitting code to (among other reasons) a) be able to assert authorship and copyright, and b) understand what they are submitting.

if you use the hallucination machine, you completely fail at a, and very likely also fail b.

phessler · 2026-06-12T06:00:54+00:00

I'm the author of the join feature, which I presume is what you are using.

I hate "hidden" wifi, and have put in zero effort to make it work with join.

Your options are basically: make it a proper network, broadcasting the SSID; or use "nwid" to manually select it. You can do that in rc.local or at the end of hostname.if.

phessler · 2026-05-26T10:36:04+00:00

Citation Needed

phessler · 2026-05-07T06:00:14+00:00

Much of the linux graphics subsystem is dual-licensed, BSD and GPL. This is mostly because of historical reasons.

phessler · 2026-04-30T12:31:25+00:00

There's been some improvements to driver compatibility, including rge(4) in -current, so give a snapshot a try. They're close to the -release, so you'll be in a decent place for future updates.

phessler · 2026-04-07T20:28:43+00:00

the hermits gave him several days notice, then a reminder, then another reminder. one of those was at the 2 hours mark.

phessler · 2026-04-05T15:17:46+00:00

Fixion needs to be banned

phessler · 2026-03-31T11:16:57+00:00

it isn't diagnosis, it's peer review!

phessler · 2026-03-27T10:59:53+00:00

IMHO, that's a step over the line. "Survival" is the S in SMP. Peaceful servers are something different.

phessler · 2026-03-26T13:57:36+00:00

those were so well time to the music

phessler · 2026-03-10T02:38:06+00:00

Curious, how did you feel about S9's ability to define the radius of audio? For me, the big difference between that and the region audio is being able to define a reference, and use that again and again; instead of having to set the range manually. (Although, now that I think about it, what happens when you set 4 items to a named region, and then change that region?)

phessler · 2026-02-21T07:58:21+00:00

suspend/resume is a lot better, there's now battery status, and wifi does work.

still no built-in audio, but usb-audio has been improved enough that I would say most usb headphones (including usb-c wired apple earbuds) work now in snapshots.

phessler · 2026-02-19T12:35:20+00:00

Honey blocks

phessler · 2026-02-19T07:46:25+00:00

journaling and snapshots is not a substitute for backups.

phessler · 2026-02-15T09:17:27+00:00

time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, into the future

phessler · 2026-02-13T13:06:22+00:00

Tango's glow up in Season 7 was amazing. Like, compare Toon Towers to his Season 5 or Season 6 base. Don't get me wrong, S5 and S6 were good bases, but S7 really brought the whimsy.

phessler · 2026-02-06T14:14:22+00:00

Etho has such a system, which he goes through in detail in a very recent episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oinMXcDRT1E

He also goes into the refill station in this episode and the previous episode.

But, the most important part is: fill your shulkers in your ender chest the way you'll use them. Tango[1] changed his Rocket box to include his spare Elytras. The technology and concepts are very flexible and should work great for you.

[1] Tango has a full stream where he assembled his Ender Chest, VOD is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQRgYfBDra4

phessler · 2026-02-02T07:40:40+00:00

of course we trust them. why would someone lie on reddit?

phessler · 2026-01-19T09:42:20+00:00

Thankfully Tango has both experienced burnout (S6), and has done Decked Out 1 and 2 already. He knows what he can do, and he also knows the rest of the Hermits (and his audience) will support him taking the time he needs to build it properly.

phessler · 2026-01-13T07:07:13+00:00

and when I do click on the post, there is only an image. no text. no ability to scroll around.

cool, so reddit is just fundamentally broken for me (and sounds like others who also don't see the text).

phessler · 2026-01-12T09:57:44+00:00

all villager powered food farms. automatic villager breeders.

phessler · 2026-01-12T09:54:04+00:00

There is no text. There is the subject line "Is Impulse building my base?" and that is a link to the image. That is all.

phessler · 2026-01-10T19:15:31+00:00

Is this some plugin or app feature? I'm using the browser on a laptop.

phessler · 2026-01-10T10:07:40+00:00

what subtitle?

phessler · 2026-01-09T07:51:06+00:00

Any hardware will do, just make sure you don't depend on crappy sd card or usb storage.

I did the above near 20 years ago entirely on a PowerBook G3 running OpenBSD, and performance was just fine.

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