Host: thinkpadt480s | Date: 2026-05-17 | Status: DRM resolved, Plasma Wayland session pending

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Host: thinkpadt480s | Date: 2026-05-15 | Status: Deployed and running

battery-sleep.sh is a small cron script that suspends FreeBSD to RAM when the battery drops to a threshold (default 20%). It is a companion to the sysutils/battery-shutdown port — that script shuts down at critical levels (~5 minutes remaining); this one sleeps earlier so the battery is not drained while the machine sits unattended.

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Host: thinkpadt480s | Date: 2026-05-10 | Status: Deployed and running

blight is a backlight idle ‘daemon’ I made to use on KDE Plasma/Wayland on FreeBSD 15 because I needed something to dim the screen. It blanks the screen after a configurable idle timeout, suspends on battery after extended idle, and restores brightness on any input activity : no D-Bus, no logind, no powerdevil, no device polling. It is a shell script wrapping swayidle, which speaks the org_kde_kwin_idle Wayland protocol directly to KWin.

This is a rewrite. The original was a Python daemon that polled input devices directly. That approach had fundamental problems on FreeBSD and was replaced entirely with a sh wrapper around swayidle.

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Date: 2026-02-11
Host: FreeBSD jail host
Component: RACCT/RCTL + node_exporter textfile collector
Outcome: Per-jail RAM/VMEM/SWAP metrics in Prometheus/Grafana

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Making ZFS ARC Grafana Panels FreeBSD-Compatible

Steps taken to make an imported ZFS/Grafana dashboard work correctly on FreeBSD. Panels assumed Linux exporters and referenced metrics that do not exist on FreeBSD. The result was a dashboard full of empty panels. This walkthrough shows how the missing ARC kstats where identified, cleanly exported and refactored so that the panels reflect the real FreeBSD kernel state.

Host: clemente (10.10.0.1)
Stack: FreeBSD + node_exporter (textfile collector) + Prometheus + Grafana
Date: 2026-02-10

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Overview (Context & Goal)

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Date: 2026-02-08
Host: grafana
Component: Prometheus + Grafana + exporters +zfs
Scope: ZFS monitoring

ZFS / Zpool Metrics for Prometheus (node-exporter + textfile collector on FreeBSD)

This guide sets up zpool capacity metrics (zpool list) for Prometheus/Grafana using node-exporter’s textfile collector on FreeBSD.

This complements (not replaces) zfs_exporter, which provides ARC/internal ZFS metrics but not pool capacity.

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What I Got Working

Metrics exposed to Prometheus:

• zpool_size_bytes{pool="zroot"}
• zpool_alloc_bytes{pool="zroot"}
• zpool_free_bytes{pool="zroot"}
• zpool_capacity_ratio{pool="zroot"}

These map directly to:

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Date: 2026-02-08
Host: grafana
Component: Prometheus + Grafana + exporters
Scope: DNS monitoring

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Date: 2026-02-08
Host: GhostBSD
Component: Ungoogled-Chrome

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Chromey Installer

Note 2025-11-02 23:04:26

This document packages everything needed to install, back up, restore, and run Ungoogled Chromium inside a Bastille jail named chromey

in the JailFox style and more. After going through the process you have a jailed ungoogle-chromium with full video and audio support, emojis and fonts etc.

Just in case the chicken came before the egg, the process starts with a robust Home backup/restore flow so your profile/configs survive rebuilds. Then it walks through the templates, scripts, mounts, X11 fixes, and the launchers.

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Introduction to Setting Up Unbound (Sinkhole) on a Mac

This guide walks you through the process of setting up Unbound, a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver, on your Mac using MacPorts. The primary goal is to create a DNS sinkhole, which is a security mechanism used to intercept and block malicious traffic. By configuring Unbound on your Mac, you can improve your network security, enhance privacy by using DNS over TLS, and block unwanted ads and trackers.

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