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FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me

My old 2016 MacBook Pro has been collecting dust in a cabinet for some time now. The laptop suffers from a “flexgate” problem, and I don’t have any practical use for it. For quite some time, I’ve been thinking about repurposing it as a guinea pig, to play with FreeBSD — an OS that I’d aspired to play with for a long…
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Feb 23, 2026FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me by varankinv434361

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