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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.
 
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