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POSIX.1 said:
For those who cannot do better it is the maximum performance they can provide.
This draws attention but deteriorates the purpose of any forum.
I like to encourage all those in need for such to create their super shitposting forums elsewhere.

And for the super sensitive here: If you cannot stand the heat of the shit you have created, just stay out of the kitchen.
It it a relief for any community if troublemakers leave voluntarily.
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Not used to do it but 1 problem with"shitposting" is that you get accused of it for being too complicated or out of the cult-track, or just being critical while substantial. I don't mind if it's another way. It's fun to read some nonsense now and then.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
Quitting coffee (cold turkey, of course) is proving to be a little bit annoying, but it's okay. It's nothing compared with quitting smoking, though. That was hell and took me years.
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100% 💯💯💯

Quitting coffee - the worst is usually 1-2 days, the worse is over in 7 days, the full recovery 1-3 months. Just remember there's tea, which can have even more caffeine than coffee. There's chocolate, there are carbonated sodas, which have caffeine. But small amounts of caffeine in food occasionally should not be a problem.

If you quit smoking, quitting caffeine is easy in comparison. Interesting fact, by the way, nicotine speeds up metabolism of caffeine twice as fast. So when people quit smoking they get insomnia because they consume the same amount of coffee, but coffee has double the effect on them without nicotine (=no sleep)!
 
How to Get RAM and Swap Usage Widgets to Work on Plasma

Preamble: The "standard" widgets don't work. They always show "100%" if my memory serves me right. I wrote this because Maxnix was interested. I don't know if it'll get approved in the "Howto" section of the forum, so I paste it here as well.

This works on Plasma 6 on FreeBSD 15 running Wayland and probably on other configurations.

1) Select a “System Monitor Sensor” widget (a generic sensor widget)

2a) To show the used RAM, configure it like this:

Total sensors = Used Physical Memory Percentage

Sensors =
- Used Physical Memory Percentage
- Free Physical Memory Percentage

Choose a different color for the previous 2 sensors (click on the white little square). If it doesn’t seem to work, apply and try again.

Text-Only Sensors: Whatever you like.

2b) To show the used Swap: Same instructions as in “2a” but:

Total sensors = Used Swap Memory Percentage

Sensors =
- Used Swap Memory Percentage
- Free Swap Memory Percentage

IMPORTANT: According to my observations, these widgets are not very exact. I think that many times when memory is freed they don’t register it, so use them just as nice ornaments.
 
MG said:
What's the best browser for this forum? Firefox is really weird at this.
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I haven't compared (forum pass only saved in FF sync :p), but don't recall seeing anything odd (mostly ESR)

Not sure if it's available FreeBSD, but Servo browser looks interesting: https://servo.org/download/

It seemingly loads the forums (few missing icons):

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Espionage724 said:
I haven't compared (forum pass only saved in FF sync :p), but don't recall seeing anything odd (mostly ESR)

Not sure if it's available FreeBSD, but Servo browser looks interesting: https://servo.org/download/

It seemingly loads the forums (few missing icons):

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In Firefox I have to mouse-select a lot of text blocks to read it because they have white on white color without being selected. Also, the text input is almost unuseable. The tags get misplaced and page refresh or cancel input goes wrong.
 
Speaking of HOWTOs; I'm thinking of replacing all your misc ramblings with some code I just wrote.

ReplaceAll"forums.freebsd.org"UserRamblings ver 0.1:
Code: 
printf -- 'this is a tip\n%%\n' > $HOME/my-tips && strfile -so $HOME/my-tips && fortune $HOME/my-tips
TODO:
1. Work on scaling plan.
2. Work on new program name.
 
One good reason for sh*tposting is that you are a sensible and polite person and you see that you can't contribute anything of value to the "serious" threads, but you have the urge to write something somewhere, because the human animal is a complicated beast, so, instead of defacing the "serious" threads with your ample ignorance, you come here or anywhere in the "off-topic" section and you post your sh*t like a normal, decent, civil person. Of course, some people will still be mad, because they are people who enjoy being mad and belittling others as much as I enjoy sh*tposting. The difference is that I do my business in a civil manner whilst they are the title of a certain Britney Spears's song. Another difference is that I have already contributed, despite my ignorance, with three threads to the "Howto" section of the forum. Because sometimes you don't know much, but you happen to know things that can be useful to other people. Anyhow, I'm absolutely certain that some people will rush to see what my three contributions are and will consider them very minor and uninteresting and will have the urge to belittle me by pointing that out because, yes, people are the worst.

Edit: An unrelated but fun post I've seen:
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Post in thread 'Add capsicum to jails'

loveydovey said:
I don't know, I see a typical response "just fork FreeBSD and do your own thing." But I see this as part of FreeBSD. Why wasn't syscall filtering implemented when everything-else filtering was implemented in capsicum?
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The answer is easy enough. Ideas are cheap and easy. Implementing them is hard.

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This one is for JohnK.

I was very excited because I had just made my first contribution ever in the form of this howto:
AlfredoLlaquet

Thread 'ex/vi/nvi editor: .exrc file (config file) advanced topics (undocumented?): Adding comments, escaping the pipe, mapping key combinations'

This config file is usually located in your home directory: /home/user_name/.exrc

Let's use my actual .exrc file for reference:

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Comments: Any line that begins with a double quote (or blank spaces + double quote) is treated as a comment.

Escaping command separators (pipes '|'): The command separator is the pipe ('|'). You can write several commands in the same line separating them with pipes. To include the pipe as part of one or your commands, as is the case with my third and fourth macros, you have to escape it by pressing Ctrl+V twice and then the...
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Later I find this comment:
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Post in thread 'ex/vi/nvi editor: .exrc file (config file) advanced topics (undocumented?): Adding comments, escaping the pipe, mapping key combinations'

Dumb suggestion: Add comments!
In my .*rc files I add comments (even for the obvious ones). The reason why is because in 6 months when I am fixing a stupid thing, I will just open my .*rc file which contains a thousand lines I just do a search for what I think is the problem. -e.g. "I want to turn off wrapping." Open my rc file and "/wrapping". or "/wrap". Having a comment gives me twice as many chances of finding what I want (you will not find "set nu" with "/nu", you will search for "/numbers").

Code: 
set wrap
" turns text wrapping on

set linebreak
" turns line breaking on

set nu
"...
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No "thank you for sharing;" no nothing. Just an obvious remark about something as obvious as the sun being hot.

My "howto" is not about how to write good config files; it's about certain things that were very difficult for me to find out and that I wanted to be documented somewhere (in this forum) so they were accessible to others. Besides, I've been programming professionally for more than 30 years and if I don't want to write comments in a file that is only for me, I don't write them.

Isn't this a graver case of sh*tposting, JohnK—derailing a whole thread with your OWN OBSESSIONS?
 
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