feat: bsd & broken system

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diff --git a/content-org/blog.org b/content-org/blog.org
index 5238c86..ea5090f 100644
--- a/content-org/blog.org
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #+HUGO_SECTION: blog
 
 
-* 2024  [78/80]                                                       :@blog:
+* 2024  [79/81]                                                       :@blog:
 :PROPERTIES:
 :EXPORT_HUGO_SECTION: blog/2024
 :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :image_dir "blog/images" :image_max_width 600
@@ -69,6 +69,46 @@ Love you, Drew!
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OsWuFo2jp4
 
+** DONE Broken system
+CLOSED: [2024-10-16 Wed 22:28]
+:PROPERTIES:
+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: broken-system
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :Abstract I am not a smart person
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :Listening Steve Kirk -  Thimbleweed Park (Original Soundtrack) 
+:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :Listening_url https://thimbleweedpark.bandcamp.com/album/thimbleweed-park-original-soundtrack
+:END:
+A very short update: last week I broke my computer.
+FreeBSD did its best, but my sheer stupidity wouldn't listen.
+
+I updated my ZFS, which worked fine.
+It informed me info about potentially needing to update my bootloader, but what the hell.
+I'll have time for it later!
+
+Later was when I forgot about that and rebooted my system.
+"ReBOOTING" is not the correct word, as it was not booting.
+FreeBSD was starting, but it could not find any bootable partition.
+They warned me, but I didn't listen.
+
+After two evenings of trying to fix it (I still think it's possible), I gave up.
+I downloaded  =GhostBSD=, mounted my ZFS datasets (the problem was not with them, but with booting up), created a small =tar= backup which I moved to my NAS.
+Then, making sure I had the backup, I reinstalled the system as fresh.
+
+About that backup, well.
+For one, I had stuff I didn't want to lose, but I had yet to add any external storage, like git server.
+Not a smart move on my side.
+Good thing, that =ZFS= is designed to be moron-resilient.
+The other part is that my =tar= command didn't include ~dotfiles~, and I never bothered to back those as well.
+My =GNUS= state is lost, never to be recovered ever again.
+
+But the upside here is that I am much more experienced local-admin than I was when I first moved to =FreeBSD=.
+Setup when smooth like butter.
+Real butter.
+
+I used this occasion to move this site to my server & create the next iteration.
+I'm still evolving, but backwards.
+What you are seeing here is, of course, a work in progress.
+
+
 ** DONE Yey USA!
 CLOSED: [2024-10-16 Wed 00:10]
 :PROPERTIES:
@@ -108,7 +148,6 @@ CLOSED: [2024-10-03 Thu 21:04]
 :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :Abstract A pre-note of some sort?
 :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :Listening Steve Kirk -  Thimbleweed Park (Original Soundtrack) 
 :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :Listening_url https://thimbleweedpark.bandcamp.com/album/thimbleweed-park-original-soundtrack
-:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :Listening_img Steve-Kirk-Thimbleweed-Park.Jpg
 :END:
 
 A little update before a bigger update, sometime in the near future, on my [[https://bsd.crys.site][Guide to BSD]].