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Actually, to save money, we lowered our speed. I don't remember what it was and I'm not even sure what it officially is now, but did a quick speed test and it was 554 Mbs download, much slower upload, but this is Spectrum in NYC. As I've often said in various posts here, even FreeBSD wireless...

freezr, I didn't know that about Lumina. I prefer window managers to desktops, but I like to have a desktop available in case I drop dead and my wife needs to access my computer, I may give that a try.

I guess this is a place to spam my own page on it, https://srobb.net/fbsd14_15.html, where I cover the steps. Most of them were given me by other people after it wasn't working for me. Once I had the extras figured out, updating with pkgbase turned out to be pretty simple. I don't know if it's...

I use Japanese, not Chinese, but I find that fcitx5 works quite well for me. I have a page on inputting Japanese that might help a little bit. https://srobb.net/jpninpt.html#FreeBSD

In fairness. the documentation isn't always right. For example, the current handbook explanation of using pkgbase to upgrade won't work. It leaves out a few essential points. They may be covered in other places--for example, the handbook has the wrong location for keys which is covered the...

I don't know if this helps. But I have a 15.0 install on laptop, started as somehthinkg much earlier a few years ago, and this time, was updated with FreeBSD update. Today, I decided it should use pkg so downloaded and ran pkgbasify. When I looked at FreeBSD-base.conf to see what pkgbasify had...

Is the meta package for X or for Wayland or both? Thanks

For what it's woth, on snapshots of 16 CURRENT, at least the ones I've used, as recently as a few days ago, pkgbase was still being shown as Tech Preview. As to why, while I don't know the ins and outs, I think, (but my memory is going) that the maintainer of it said it was getting difficult to...

I sort of disagree with that. I think that when a system becomes popular, hardware and software vendors become more willing to put in extra work to support it. My memory may be off, but it seems to me that Ubuntu came out, began becoming somewhat popular and was, of course, easy to use, and...

Back before Cracked.com had complete platform decay (to use the nicer word (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification), and had some really good articles, one of their writers, David Wong, I think, did an article about how Christmas, as much as a religious holiday, was a time for families...

I was lucky in a way. Got black out throwing up drunk in high school, and after that, even the smell of light wine or beer made me gag. I say lucky, because I had a fairly addictive personality, and might have wound up an alcoholic. That is, I tend to get addicted to things, not that someone...

I've put up a page, which I hope gets the information in one place, at least for ZFS. Haven't tried on UFS. https://srobb.net/fbsd14_15.html. It includes getting the right keys.

Yeah, that would be a separate thread. I don't have the answers to those, unfortunately

MG what do you want to change. (Should probably be a separate thread though.)

Yes, I use it at both home, and work, where I ssh into my FreeBSD machine there. The one at work runs 14.3, at home, 15.0. I have two that I use at home, one running dwm and the other openbox. I have a couple of Windows VMs, 1 10, 1 11 that I rarely need for work and I have a laptop with a few...

drhowarddrfine I remember when the first Daredevil series came out. Even though my knowledge of film is minus X, I remember thinking, at the time, how directors all said they like Netflix, et al because they don't have the time constraints, and me thinking, this would be a better show with...

Sheesh, that's a simple one. MORE CABLE!!

Well regardless, you helped me figure out what I was (several times) doing wrong. I can't believe how often I just typed upgrade instead of update but once I finally realized that I'd kept mistyping, it worked. And I tested it several times, as I said, the VMs only take a few minutes to create.

vermaden has a good page on bhyve https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/freebsd-bhyve-virtualization/ I found that one thing I'd been missing was mounting the directory. zfs create -o mountpoint=/vm zroot/vm Then the vm_enable="YES" vm_dir="zfs:zroot/vm" in /etc/rc.conf

Thanks, I'm familiar with bat and with the names of the other two, but haven't tried that. Seems like a good idea to try. P