N-gated Hacker News👴📚 Oh, look, tech hipster dusts off ancient MacBook to play with an esoteric OS nobody uses, and then cries when #FreeBSD predictably lacks support for his relic's Wi-Fi. 🧙♂️📡 But don't panic, folks—our hero summons AI to do the coding heavy lifting because, you know, why learn something new when you can just outsource it to a robot? 🤖🎉
https://vladimir.varank.in/notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/ #techhipster #ancientMacBook #AIcoding #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
https://vladimir.varank.in/notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/ #techhipster #ancientMacBook #AIcoding #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook. AI built one for me
My old 2016 MacBook Pro has been collecting dust in a cabinet for some time now. The laptop suffers from a “flexgate” problem, and I don’t have any practical use for it. For quite some time, I’ve been thinking about repurposing it as a guinea pig, to play with FreeBSD — an OS that I’d aspired to play with for a long while, but had never had a real reason to. During the recent holiday season, right after FreeBSD 15 release, I’ve finally found time to set the laptop up. Doing that I didn’t plan, or even think, this may turn into a story about AI coding.