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Welcome to Larvitz Blog! I’m Christian, a Senior Consultant by day and FreeBSD enthusiast by night, with over 20 years in enterprise IT. Here I write about FreeBSD jails, PF firewalling, self-hosting, Linux system administration, and anything that’s cleanly engineered. Most articles are hands-on guides born from running my own infrastructure, from dual-stack networking and Ansible automation to hosting a Mastodon instance on FreeBSD.

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#claude-code Articles

Claude Code on a FreeBSD Desktop: Plasma, xrdp, the Linuxulator and One Very Confusing PATH

A FreeBSD 15.1 Plasma desktop in a Proxmox VM, reachable over xrdp, running Claude Code as a Linux binary through the Linuxulator. Along the way: an Xorg that found no screens, a KRDP package that does not exist, a VirtIO-GPU that gives you a framebuffer but no acceleration, and a “version regression” that turned out to be two Claude installations fighting over my PATH. Then I let the agent firewall the machine it was running on, and it did that more carefully than I usually do. It also got one thing wrong, and of course it was the thing about root.