İs FreeBSD good?

AlfredoLlaquet said:
Heretofore the saying went that any prolonged discussion ended up being about semantics. Now, it seems that any prolonged technical discussion ends up being about AI.
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We have some useful discussion about AI. In threads that are about AI. And they don't contain slop. Especially not 3 pages worth of slop.
 
AlfredoLlaquet said:
Still didn't see the 3 pages of slop. I must be missing something obvious or you must be referring not to this thread. Don't worry about it; it's unimpor
AlfredoLlaquet said:
Still didn't see the 3 pages of slop. I must be missing something obvious or you must be referring not to this thread. Don't worry about it; it's unimportant.
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He is exaggerating, but doing it in a very aggressive manner, which is unprofessional.
 
POSIX.1 said:
And who will find the security issues created and implanted by AI? AI serves the stupids best.
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"Who watches the watchers"

cracauer@ said:
That's still no reason to post AI slop on a forum.
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Agreed.

At the moment, I look at AI generated security things like an item in a Coverity report. It may be legitimate, it may be a false positive, it may be something else.
Bottom line is AI like every other tool needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Take a look at what it says, don't take it as Gospel, verify and double check.

This is not unique to AI; I think every tool, even things like Lint, needs to have the item verified.

Just my human opinion based on a personal "default deny" stance on trust.
 
drhowarddrfine said:
I read somewhere that you need to be a serious computer enthusiast to run FreeBSD so I don't think it would be right for the OP.
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Of course they're going to say that, they're Linux users.

You don't need to be a serious enthusiast to run FreeBSD, the community skews that way primarily because there isn't much awareness outside of that group that it even exists. When I first installed it decades ago that was probably true as you had to do things like work out what modelines your particular monitor needed in order to get X11R6 to run and getting it wrong could potentially damage the monitory. But, these days, it's not that hard to do, you just have to be able to follow the directions on your phone while running a few basic commands that don't usually vary that much to get the GUI up and running.
 
hedwards said:
When I first installed it decades ago that was probably true as you had to do things like work out what modelines your particular monitor needed in order to get X11R6 to run and getting it wrong could potentially damage the monitory. But, these days, it's not that hard to do, you just have to be able to follow the directions on your phone
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Isn't it kind of otherworldly how much things have changed in less than a human lifetime? Imagine trying to explain how things are now to someone back then.
 
I am perfectly serious. FreeBSD is not for the every day person who has no interest in studying how the system works to install a desktop and make config files to run it as he pleases. One has to be the type of person who wants to do these things and will spend the time to research it. You have to want it.

It's not for Windows people who don't want to pay for Windows anymore. It's not for Linux people who just want Ubuntu to play games on and don't want to learn anything to install it.

And Alfredo Alvarado you said you are an everyman who isn't a serious enthusiast yet you often post here technical terms about FreeBSD that my wife would never understand.

These comments are not negatives against FreeBSD.
 
One could well wonder about the obsessive posting of "everyman" here in the FreeBSD forums, annoying not a few other members here.

The phenomenon of users becoming annoyed by posters who frequently contribute short, irrelevant, or low-quality text, often referred to as "noise" or "clutter", is getting a relevant problem for online communities. This behavior disrupts the cooperative nature of online discourse and violates established social norms.

Those "everyman", and we have here quite some, do it just because they can. They are allowed to be a pain for others. And that has consequences for the whole community.
 
jbo@ said:
DRM is gonna be a problem tho (which applies if you want to use youtube movies/music or whatever it's called).
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My kids needed widevine on one of their systems connected to a tv. I installed the Linux widevine cdm port.


The service works using chromium.

NapoleonWils0n

Thread 'Chromium enable drm playback by building the www/linux-widevine-cdm port with Poudriere'

Chromium has been recently patched to enable Widevine support as mentioned in the post

This lets you play widevine drm encrypted audio and video,
so you can watch things like Netflix, Channel4 and ITV in the UK or other video services that use widevine drm or listen to Spotify

I have written a how guide to install the www/linux-widevine-cdm port with Poudriere

and how to set up virtual_oss to create a loopback device for sndiod audio
so we can record the audio from chromium "which use sndiod audio and not pulse" with obs studio



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