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    @JdeBP @tj @wild1145 Personally, I've updated frequently and never encountered major problems - at least none that couldn't be resolved with a little analysis. The Mastodon update process is generally reliable. In my view, losing a whole day's worth of data implies either poor planning of the operation or a significant dose of bad luck.Before any major update, I take a full snapshot of everything, ready to restore it if something goes sideways. The trouble often stems from the fact that installing and subsequently updating "complex" projects like Mastodon is done in a semi-automated way, perhaps using Docker. This creates an abstraction layer over your actual setup and, consequently, leaves you with little control over what's happening under the hood.
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    Don't be a fool (like I was) when it comes to #jails on #FreeBSD. I ignored them despite using FreeBSD for decades, because I had no problem that could not be solved w/o them and thought "why learn yet another technology I barely need".But it's not only about solving problems. It gives you a super lightweight and fast tool to test things (and trashing ๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ them with zfs destroy) without cluttering your configs or interfering with production services.E.g. I hesitated to run a webserver for publishing content because I didn't want a publicly accessible Apache on my mail relays, nor on my Nextcloud instance at home.With jails, the MX is left unmodified. If I feel like it I could move it to a different system just using tar or cpio or zfs send.All I needed to accomplish that was a few shell scripts to initially generate a jail template and, of course, the invaluable book "FreeBSD Mastery: Jails" of @mwl .What motivated me to get started? All thespeakers at #EuroBSDCon showing what incredible things they do with Jails. Especially >>IMUNES: A Network Emulation and Simulation Tool Built on FreeBSD<<.If you want to watch the IMUNES talk you can find the link on my jailed webserver ๐Ÿ˜‰ here https://pub.v32bis.cc/eurobsdcon.html
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    Keep your FreeBSD system cool with built-in temperature monitoring!No ports needed, just sysctl and a simple shell script. Perfect for FreeBSD 14.x users who want lightweight, dependency-free thermal monitoring.Quick, practical, and very Unix.https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2025/20251009-FreeBSD_Temp-Monitoring.md#FreeBSD #BSD #SysAdmin #Unix
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    Want to isolate a DNS resolver?bastille create dns 14.3-RELEASE 10.0.0.53bastille pkg dns install unboundbastille service dns unbound enablebastille service dns unbound startYou now have a private resolver in a jail, safe from the host.#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD #Unbound #DNS