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Ha, nice to have you around, thank you for the article 🙂

It sounds like a known problematic sound card even on Linux(?).
There is this thread that can give you hope, you might need to read this too.
I am not sure that I can be such a great helper for you mate, sorry.

I think something weird is going on since my sound card isn’t listed of the website but the kernel detects my sound card

Yes it's possible, it can be a "too fresh hardware" situation for FreeBSD, what is your device?

Did you put yourself in the group operator?
Also check if the sound is not muted with mixer.
I know it's basic stuff but sometimes we forget about simple things.

Hi,
Don't know if you already tried that, but you can select the one you want with:
sysctl hw.snd.default_unit=number_you_see_in_sndstat.

You are on Lemmy and you are leaving Facebook, you don't need anything else, you've got everything already.

That's a possibility indeed, but at least he documented all the steps, it's great to see that because it looks like a lot of work. But I agree at the first that big long page for sure can be intimidated (CTRL+F is your best friend here).

He doesn't look like someone who doesn't know docker, there is a whole section on that wiki page where he describes what docker is and how it works in details.
He just decided to not dockerize his installation because:

1. he thinks VM in his case are more practical.
2. docker didn't even exist when he started to go self-hosting.

For some reason you are just having a bad moment mate, rejoice! Nothing is dead.
I mean Reddit is still alive, like it or not I don't think it's going to change any time soon.
Lemmy does its own things, sure it didn't grow as expected but it is doing good, those things take time and we should not expect Lemmy to become the new Reddit.

For me the main issue on Lemmy is the number of thread/community/people that want to talk absolutely about Reddit, at this point this is just counterproductive it's like people can't get over it, the first few months it was okay but now it's just non sense.

Happy to help.

No expert here, but you should check on Protectli, they have good stuff, small form factor(mostly), fanless, serial com which is convenient in some situation.
I have one (intel not amd) that is currently not in use for personal reason but when it was running, I found the hardware very reliable, silent and not hot.
Prices are not as good as some cheap hardware you can find on Aliexpress or Amazon but somehow I trust more company like Protectli than any noname because at least with Protectli devices it is possible to install coreboot to override the default bios. (BTW when people check the bios on their cheap hardware then things are getting weird, which version it is ..., doesn't sound like something I would trust to manage a network, just saying).

1.Man pages.
Not all but a vast majority, are very well explained and they have examples.
When I read man pages on Linux I feel stupid very often, it's like they are written by and for very skilled people only.

2.Ease of use.
Surprisingly it can also be seen as a weak point, it depends on how you look at it.
Sometimes a wrapper to simplify actions would be wise but the Unix mindset "do one thing do it well" is very present in FreeBSD community. I suppose that's also the reason why today FreeBSD remains strong, in the end "good" or "bad" thing it is debatable.
In Linux that's different most of the concepts sound over complicated but there is always a tool to make the user life simple which is pleasant as long as you don't have to dig deeper.

3.Real OS.
Components are linked together, they are built to work together. For example if I make a jail, I can install a package from the host in the jail just by using the main package manager. I also can see processes in the jail by using ps from the host. That and many other things.
Linux on the other hand looks like a set of bricks made by different people from different time with different goal in mind, that can explain why systemD is so appreciate, but what a heavy cost.