android-tools doesn't appear to work

Hello,

I was attempting to flash my phone today and struggled a lot with it.

Firstly, adb will not connect to its daemon if there is a firewall with:

block in
pass out

(I am using pf)

So I had to disable my firewall so that adb would connect to the
daemon, success!

Then I execute "adb devices" and nothing, the phone doesn't pop up. I
checked dmesg and the phone is in fact being detected:

[6728] ugen1.3: <vendor 0x18d1 Pixel 6 Pro> at usbus1

Any ideas why this isn't working?

(For contrast, I got my Linux laptop out and it just worked, so I will
use that to flash my phone. Android tools really do not like BSD it
seems)

Take care,
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