Graham Perrin (@[email protected])

Spirits of cooperation: their lives, deaths, afterlives, and endings … I find it increasingly difficult to handle the emotional and other aftereffects of being targeted by irrational, ugly, ad homimem abuse, from a developer, in an online working group space between 05:30 and 06:06 a few days ago. Maybe more prolonged; I quit the server, without responding to the abuser, after waking to find a bad situation made worse by a so-called moderator. This is, perhaps, not the type of group work that inspires a person. It certainly does not foster a spirit of cooperation. Rewind: I lost sleep, much more than I ever admitted, in 2023. Fast-forward to 2025: I'm losing sleep, again. Despite my best efforts, the passing of time is not improving the situation, I need to do some thing quickly to halt the tide, the thing is this post. Part of this morning's sleeplessness was spent philosophically and positively, crafting various ways in which I might sugar-coat the situation. In my mind's eye this morning was a perfunctory, factual post that ended upbeat, by thanking (but not naming) a great peacemaker who reached out to me in 2023. Less philosophically: I'm tired, I'm disinclined to sugar-coat casually-dropped turds, and ― frankly ― the tiredness, past and present, is a direct consequence of unreasonable behaviour. I'm no angel, but hey, I have a breaking point, and if you wanna get your kicks and giggles through breaking people: I'll prefer alternative spaces, where the good in people can be brought out. This is not rocket science, you shit-heads, you utter shit-heads. To anyone who might respond here: please understand that I'll probably not continue the conversation. Further unravelling in private, or public, is not the way forward. Right now, I like the idea of a quiet end to this phase of my life. Around a decade might have been long enough. I want the decade ahead to please me, and I'm suitably calmed by the idea of silently abandoning everything from 2015 to date. I abandoned masses of stuff about which I was passionate in the past, never regretted moving on, if now is another ending I'll have no regrets. I'm calmed not only by the idea of abandonment, I was also calmed at the end of my working day by using two operating systems that worked perfectly. It's now 19:15, I'm done with writing about this. Cat time :-) To future peacemakers: thank you. To casual troublemakers: I have had more than enough of your turds. Don't make me share additional thoughts on the subject.

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# 14.1-RELEASE to 14.2-RELEASE Essential reading: - installation information at https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/ [https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/] – you can create a configuration file for a Project-provided FreeBSD-kmods repo before beginning to follow the steps at https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/installation/#upgrade-binary [https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/installation/#upgrade-binary]. 1. mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos ; cd /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos 2. cp /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf ./FreeBSD-kmods.conf 3. ee ./FreeBSD-kmods.conf 4. change the repository name from FreeBSD to FreeBSD-kmods 5. change quarterly to kmods_quarterly_2 6. escape, save 7. cd 8. follow official installation information up to, and including, the second run of freebsd-update install 9. pkg upgrade --repository FreeBSD-kmods 10. ignore the mismatch (y) 11. if any upgraded kernel module is offered, proceed (y) 12. continue with official installation information – the first restart of the operating system, and so on 13. finally, re-edit /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-kmods.conf – change kmods_quarterly_2 to kmods_quarterly_${VERSION_MINOR} Notes: - the Project’s official call for testing (CFT) will lead to simplicity – please see https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1hd2h51/freebsd_projectprovided_repositories_for_kernel/m1ukuno/ [https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1hd2h51/freebsd_projectprovided_repositories_for_kernel/m1ukuno/] - the less simple steps, above, are an interim approach to avoiding the DRM graphics issue that was noted for 14.2-RELEASE before the release announcement – https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/errata/#open-issues [https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/errata/#open-issues] - the steps assume use of the traditional quarterly repo for packages of ports. https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/QuarterlyBranch [https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/QuarterlyBranch] should help to understand the difference between quarterly and latest - and beware of confusion with base_latest, which relates to pkgbase [https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase] (base, separate from ports).

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