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Praise the Omnissiah for every game that is not made in Unreal Engine 5!

Great guide for running Windows 11 in KVM on Linux by Rob Braxman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T68CTiudCVI

I've followed it almost to the letter, only skipped the manual storage pool configuration.

It runs great on 8GB of RAM and 4 cores. It actually boots faster then Win 11 in dual boot! I previously didn't use virtio-win drivers, but they make big difference!

Another note: Win 11 Pro eval actually installs without Copilot by default. I only disabled One Drive and uninstalled Xbox apps.

Windows 11 QEMU/KVM Installation Guide in Linux Including TPM and Secure Boot

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To look back and review 2025:

I wanted to learn more about networking and Unix in 2025 and I think I've succeeded ๐Ÿค—. Mastodon community helped a lot in this endeavor, thank you all!

I don't have much spare time to tinker with BSD any more, but I'm looking into Fedora and tmux at the moment. I'm having a great time, and also just spending more time outside or with kids.

Wishing all of you all the best in 2026! ๐ŸŽ‰ ๐ŸŽ‡

RE: https://chaos.social/@karolherbst/115635517290007931

Let's just not bring politics into everything. In last months I've seen a fair share of unhelpful generalizations from both camps here. I've read that X users are stone-age desktop lovers, MAGA idi*ts, zombie cuddlers, "against the new, beacause it's new" and what not. Same way not everything from Wayland is bad (I use it on my work machine, but not on my older machines). I'm happy someone will maintain KWin so that I can still use Plasma on those machines. End of story...

If I hate anything on Android, it's the in app browsers. It's the first thing I disable if possible. They can trace ads to the last click this way, of course they set it as default.

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บโœ… SUCCESS: We've prevented mandatory #ChatControl through the back door!๐ŸŽ‰ A big win & THANKS to everyone! ๐Ÿ™

But โš ๏ธ: Anonymity-breaking age checks & "voluntary" mass scanning are still planned. The fight continues next year!

https://chatcontrol.eu

Built a Neovim-native rewrite of the classic Vimdeck plugin.

Treesitter for parsing, figlet for headers, and Markdown slides so you can present from inside the terminal.

https://jakegoldsborough.com/blog/2025/vimdeck-nvim-markdown-presentations/

#vim #neovim #lua #oss

vimdeck.nvim: Markdown Presentations in Neovim - Jake Goldsborough

A blog about NixOS, self-hosting, Rust projects, and other tech musings. Maybe some meatspace stuff as well.

Tested out Netbsd install. So far it was the most pleasant BSD install experience! Each steps is described very well, it's visible someone put great effort into this!

Next step, is finding a suitable hw and test it on that ๐Ÿ˜Ž.
#netbsd

Nvim 0.11.5 has been released.

This is mostly for bugfixes and performance, and comes with a bonus feature:

in help buffers, `gx` command now opens help tags in the web browser.

Also, windows ARM64 binaries are now available.

Source, binaries and full change logs:

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.11.5

Release Nvim 0.11.5 ยท neovim/neovim

NVIM v0.11.5 Build type: Release LuaJIT 2.1.1741730670 Release notes Changelog (fixes + features) News (:help news in Nvim) Install Windows Zip Download nvim-win64.zip (or nvim-win-arm64.zip fo...

GitHub

Updated my nvim configs with native nvim lsp:

https://github.com/beammeout/nvim-bsd-lazy/tree/native-nvim-lsp-config?tab=readme-ov-file#native-nvim-lsp

So far tested only on Netbsd 10.1 as my OpenBSD test rig is not yet updated ๐Ÿ˜‡