Getting to know the ins and outs of FreeBSD under OPNSense. It's rather easy to tell it's ment as an appliance; ports have to be built from source - but their Makefile based system is stupidly good. I really like it. It reminds me of the MacPorts package ... oh, wait ... x)
The last "BSD" I ever did _was_ on Mac OS X - first with Macports (I remember exploding /sw multiple times...) and later with Homebrew. Those things were mad fun.
But, I intend to very carefuly pick and choose the packages I put here; the firewall is ment to be a firewall.
Long-term goal is to use it to put the whole network on a VPN, grant access to tor and i2p, and use DNS proxying/cloaking. I still have to figure out a good way to whitelist things though. For example, for Genshin, any of the *.hoyoverse.com domains need to be routed directly. Clash-rs _can_ do that, and I bet sing-box also. But it'll take time to find workflows from finding the edge cases, isolating them in the log, formulating rules, and then setting them.
... Have I mentioned that I am "done" with the clearnet? xD May sound like a stereotypical braindead imbicile but FUCK DEM CORPOS \m/