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Welp. Today is the #DayWithoutX. My workstation broke somehow and won't start X11, which means no GUI. Since the fallback in Unix is the CLI, & I grew up on the CLI, I'm not completely lost or unable to work. It's still a surprising nuisance, though.
I ran FreeBSD's `pkg autoremove` command yesterday, & it removed a bunch of stuff I didn't notice, including hal. Also, something must've changed in a recent kernel because I had to install a new package, xf86-video-intel (on an ancient Dell Inspiron 518 w/on-board graphics), before X11 found a screen again. #DayWithoutX