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Yeah, I would be fine with, I'm sorry, I don't know the answer to that one, rather than an incorrect answer that's going to, when I try something and it doesn't work, aggravate me.

Somewhere on my user profile, I commented that I taught ChatGPT the meaning of the word "Rhinophytonecrophilia" - a word that was made up from running 4 latin words together, and requires some thinking and intelligence to realize that it amounts...

you can do this with pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD on 14.x, or if you're on a recent stable/15 or main, pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-ports since the repository was renamed. you can also use pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base to only upgrade the base system and not...

And significantly larger to use git.

The most immideate consequence is that if you build git from ports you also build Rust as a build dependency. That makes it "slightly" slower. Did they make any statements about what kind of git code should use Rust?

That reminds me of the Tamagotchi , which was reported to have made some small children cry inconsolably when their "virtual pet" died eventually. I think "AI companions" first appeared back in the 1960s (within the limits of the technology at...

Thanks for reminded me of my "conversations" with Elisa on ZX Spectrum, which all went more or less like in the screenshot bellow. Basically, simple parser that reformulated what you typed last into next question. Much better and far more...

FreeBSD, a few weeks on The first impression, which still holds, is that what sets it apart from Linux is that Linux is "evolved," while FreeBSD is "designed." "Evolved" here being the euphemism Torvalds uses for a bunch of gung-ho programmers...

The most immideate consequence is that if you build git from ports you also build Rust as a build dependency. That makes it "slightly" slower. Did they make any statements about what kind of git code should use Rust?

Good day, I'm on FreeBSD 14.2 and I'm running the latest packages as of today. I'm trying to get KDE6 running on the system. I THINK it's running just fine but it's wedging my monitor. It's an Asus 4K monitor with 2x HDMI and 1x Display Port...

If I recall correctly, Game Of Tree has (had?) some issues. Differences in command line arguments (usage other than command git itself). Slowness compared to git (if I understand correctly, because of single-threaaded). The former would cause...

you can do this with pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD on 14.x, or if you're on a recent stable/15 or main, pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-ports since the repository was renamed. you can also use pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base to only upgrade the base system and not...

you can do this with pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD on 14.x, or if you're on a recent stable/15 or main, pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-ports since the repository was renamed. you can also use pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base to only upgrade the base system and not...

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Those were iMac G3's and I passionately hated them. I had few @ $DAYJOB and they were crap comparing to older Beige G3 desktops and towers. But they were shiny, right? Same thing with Power Mac G3 ("Blue and White"). Only decent machines in iMac...

I was already familiar with the "Steve Jobs revolutionized the world by making it gloss white" idea, but it is extremelly edifying to get a different perspective based on technology details and industry adoption at the time that I had not even...

In many ways, this might make a proper port to Windows feasible. Assuming they replace the Perl cruft with Rust rather than just adding more shite into it. Currently the Windows ports needs Cygwin/msys2 to function which is gross. Game Of Trees...

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https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250904-b4-pks-rust-breaking-change-v1-0-3af1d25e0be9@pks.im/

Hi, I have a few older posts that are no longer relevant, and I’d like to remove them. Could you please let me know the correct procedure for deleting or requesting deletion of my own posts?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfox Like I said. It's not clear how much of Firefox is actually in Waterfox but the implication is not all of it.

Wayland is far from being ready, but somehow, we have distros and desktop environments that are wayland only. Crazy.

Two of my sort of test installs of 14.3-RELEASE, which have been pkgbasified, when I ran pkg update, pkg upgrade, updated a whole lot of FreeBSD-base stuff. (These had already been upgraded to the latest freebsd-update upgrade. I let them...

Yes, and wayland seems broken in so many ways. (see also, https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277)

XLibre works great on OpenRC based Gentoo (6.16.7) with KDE 6.4.5

As a person who has been a linux sysadmin for the past 30 years, I agree 100%. I started with Slackware 2.2.0.1, dual booted with RedHat 3.0.3, ran rh till 6, went with Debian. Stayed with them until bdale garbee stuck a shiv in our collective...

That's what I'm talking about, kudos Erichans 👍 Much shorter, much smarter and far more elegant than my version. Also, it works as true one liner with elinks -dump, no need for cat i. Again, thanks 🙏 and congrats 🫡 P.S. Edit: Apologies to OP...

i still have a g4 "lamp" mac with 1ghz cpu. 1G ram, wifi. 20" ips display. also have the bubble speakers. still looks kind if cool sucks that the speakers only work with this mac. they have some kind of digital inout via a weird type of RCA jack

Excellent! Thanks 🙏 Only two problems that I see: 1) First and Last name are merged into one string "LastFirst"; it's not "Autumn-RoseMadeline" but "Madeline Autumn-Rose", "J. BlairMark" vs "Mark J. Blair" etc. In my version, Name comes first...

I've worked out two additional solutions of my own, reflecting different ways to solve your problem: use sed and make 'smart' use of utilities let sed do as much as possible, minimizing its invocations Perhaps this helps to solve future...

FreeBSD gives you complete freedom of choice. Conceptually, FreeBSD today is free of vendor locking. This is even more important than the absence of toxic technologies. If I break a system, I break it myself. I have a lot of tools, but sometimes...

Just 15 years ago, Linux didn't have anything like this. And if it did, it was somewhere deep and fragmented. For me, Linux has completely exhausted itself as an adequate system. I no longer have time to read Linux news deeply and thoughtfully...

If you like it, power to you, I'm sure it has it's use somewhere But me... I can't stand it! I'm so tired of being cockblocked on linux because I don't want to type my password a million times, and after each linux install I have to manually tell...

Yeah, but MS formed Macintosh Business Unit in Jan '97 to start working on Office98 for Mac, and partnership agreement and famous "at least 5 more years" pledge was only in August '97. Jobs was just back to Apple in Feb '97. Also, back in '97...

Most of it, yes. I still have a few pending commits, mostly for the “once” rules. That won’t be in 15.0, because it didn’t land in time and I don’t want to make Colin’s life (the release engineer) harder than it already is. I don’t know if the...

Netgate is sponsoring an effort to bring pf in FreeBSD to be on par functionality wise with the version in OpenBSD. As we all know, FreeBSD's version is way behind the features and functionality in OpenBSD since quite a long a time. Most updates...

Me too. I also hate this sudo...sudo...sudo...-thing. And since I also knew it from Linux first, I recently learned it's not a Linux thing, but is an original FreeBSD thing. However, depending on the Linux distro you're using there is no real...

Alt Linux is a bit different there, every time that GUI app that needs admin privileges is started, system asks for root password, not user's. But I guess that' how they configured polkit and has nothing to do with sudo per se. Another...

Well, not exactly – if you wanted to say that deal was struck for the first time when he got back in late '90s. First version of MS Word For Mac was released on Jan 18 '85, Excel for Mac was released Sep 30, '85 and PowerPoint bit later, April 20...

https://www.waterfox.net/docs/about-waterfox/

Did there used to be a Kontos in the forums? I can't find the username anymore, as if the account was deleted. Idk if it's the same Kontos. I remember an avatar with a cartoonish face. It might of had a cigar.

As for being stupid, I remember a comedian doing a bit on how it has it's advantages. Someone shouts at you, What are you, stupid??!! And the answer is yeah, is that a problem? I've done it in arguments with my wife often, though it doesn't...

however we disable them due this causing zfs to pick up on random disks by random ids/names /boot/loader.conf: kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0" kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0" ?

fair point! but swapping onto wrong swap0 could be less of a problem only other way is to indeed somehow mark the swap part to be only used in that one machine. unsure how. did gpt had partition id's too? who's going to keep track of this even...

That's how I managed to do it. First, check if the module is loading (and the /dev/uhid* device is displayed in the directory.If so, the problem is just finding the mechanism for changing access rights to this device. If the device has operator...

The 68000 had a lovely logical design, all registers equivalent, much nicer to program than the 8086. My uni lecturers loved it because it was so much easier to use as a teaching tool, and for developing hardware designs. We had quite a few...

AFAIK AS1000 was the first SPARC laptop, right? Then Tadpole made few models during ‘90s, and latest that I know of was NatureTech 777 GenialStation (~2001/2), with SUN UltraSPARC IIe @ 500 MHz w/256-KB L2 Cache; 15.0" TFT SXGA LCD Panel; 256MB...

For what it's worth, I've tried chatGPT on occasion, usually for something where I web searched and couldn't find the answer. I didn't keep track, but its answers were sometimes right and sometimes useless. Not stupidly useless, but for example...

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