What is evdev and autoloading?

[Wojciech Puchar]

> motivated me to do this:
>
> 1) my observation that many developers at conferences and online were using 
> macOS as their primary desktop environment.  when comparing this to the 
> OpenBSD and Linux community I felt pretty embarrassed, but it did explain the 
> stagnant nature of our graphics subsystem.  people seemed afraid to touch 
> things due the brittle nature of its hardware support.
>
> 2) i was in need to an *affordable* machine with a warranty. fortunately 
> there are many affordable laptops at staples, best-buy and amazon - but they 
> were all post haswell systems, rendering them basically useless from a 
> FreeBSD perspective.

I've bought recently (like half year ago) cheapest laptop available. 
Everything supported with FreeBSD out of the box, except little problem 
with sound but

dev.hdac.0.polling=1

made it work.

What a problem? Even lowest end today computer is really high end for 
normal programs.