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Both x11-toolkits/gtk20 and x11-toolkits/gtk30 have CUPS as a dependency. If you remove CUPS you also remove GTK2 and GTK3. If those get removed anything that depends on GTK2 and/or GTK3 gets removed too. Yeah, set up your own repository, build...

I used OSMand on a couple of trips when I didn't have data for the phone in question. It's perfectly serviceable.

I've tried that, but it makes no difference. I'm following the instructions from the handbook, which also matches that on the earlier linked forum post. Unfortunately my outcome seems to differ from that expected.

Asking the mods to sift through radwaste to retrieve uncontaminated half-thoughts that may or may not make sense out of context is asking too much.

I use Android Pixel phones. Although the practical reasons why I chose Android over IOS have been disappearing one after another over the years. I might pick an iPhone next cycle. I am impressed by how resistant IOS is against rooting. Wouldn't...

iGO Works well on android. It doesnt need internet and it doesnt need google services.

If you don't have Google apps (including the market) on Android, what do you use for navigation? OSMand? Sideloaded Google maps?

I use Android Pixel phones. Although the practical reasons why I chose Android over IOS have been disappearing one after another over the years. I might pick an iPhone next cycle. I am impressed by how resistant IOS is against rooting. Wouldn't...

Nokia 2660. Because all smart phones in 2025 have too much surface area for exploitation. The OS is a fairly lightweight thing (Nokia S30+).

no cell phone

You, as people who know the difference between Linux and FreeBSD, what cell phone do you choose? Is it an Apple because it's a BSD derivative? But then it's proprietary, meaning you can't quite do what you want to do with it. Or is it Linux...

Or just use msmtp with this configuration: defaults auth on tls on tls_trust_file /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt logfile ~/.msmtp.log account mainAcount host mail.MailAccount.Domain port 465 from "user@domain.tld" user...

Linuxulator will do fine.

This is from the time gmail needed just user and pass to authenticate, you can try it with the kaufland account: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/mail-metamail-gpg-openssl-sendmail-fetchmail-etc-as-mail-client.79285/

Anyway, there it is, thanks for the feedback.

This one? https://web.archive.org/web/20250628213937/https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/so-long-xorg-thanks-for-all-the-fish-hello-xlibre.98054/

Android os spy I have xiaomi

Here is a discussion of authenticating sendmail as client for gmail, but I did not try it: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/advice-on-sending-email-from-command-line-via-gmail.93175

Linux - xfce FreeBSD - mate

I have 3 installs, one where I upgraded with pkgbase, one where I upgraded with freebsd-update, and one where I did a fresh install. The one upgraded with freebsd-update is exactly as you describe, a FreeBSD-base.conf that reads FreeBSD-base: {...

According to Colin Percival /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf should contain only the enabled line like so: FreeBSD-base: { enabled: yes }

Then delete the political speech and keep the rest of the thread. As it is, it seems technical discussion was lost.

I would 'kinda understand' locking the thread ... but removing? That is just bad. That is censorship like behavior.

Then delete the political speech and keep the rest of the thread. As it is, it seems technical discussion was lost.

Encountering this problem for a few years: while compiling a selection of ports automated with a script, a bunch of the distfile fetch url's are unresponsive, causing the procedures to delay with minutes an hours in total. Not sure what causes...

In theory, you are absolutely right. But how does the analog audio get to your system? Mainly, in the form of vinyl. This means: Heavy dynamic compression at the lathe level to ensure that the groove will not cause skipping of the "needle"...

Ok, I'll have to mark this one solved. I did it again from a fresh install following petan's guide. This time, it saw base_0 and successfully upgraded. Not sure what went wrong last time, but I suspect it was some error of mine that I missed...

After 25 years with an ancient Yamaha DSP-A1 I tried various Yamaha/Onkyo/Marantz. In the end, I bought an Emotiva XMC-2 and I am extremely satisfied with it. Note: You hear a lot of libel/negativity about Emotiva products from interested...

drhowarddrfine, depending upon your carrier you can often return it within a certain amount of time if you don't like it. At least in the US. But it might vary by carrier.

Apparently not yet. What I did (after advice from SirDice, was check the release notes, at https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/#upgrade-rc and then, get the src code and run cp -R /usr/src/share/keys/pkgbase-15...

I've abandoned the idea of mounting the zfs disk on my existing system and have now reversed the disks, booting from the zfs disk and mounting what was the existing disk and trying to recreate what was there, but filtering out the junk that...

I suspect it's because you're chroot'ing the installation. What happens if you set up the keys inside the /mnt/upgrade environment? So /mnt/upgrade/usr/share/keys/pkgbase-15? It might be looking for the keys there.

The best explanation of ZFS I heard was by Bryan Cantrill when he presented Solaris 10 at a dog & pony at one of the hotels here about 20 years ago. ZFS is a volume manager and a filesystem wrapped up in one. Think of it as a Linux LVM on...

People are under no obligation to host your speech, especially if they don't like it.

Can you post the entire error message? Including the output before it?

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a) 16 is -CURRENT and not supported here. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/topics-about-unsupported-freebsd-versions.40469/ b) The i386 platform is deprecated from 15.0 onward. https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/

It should be possible if you are under pkgbase to switch to the latest base. I mean: in a conf file in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/. Then pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base. It's maybe what you have already tried?

Oh, yeah. I have to keep reminding myself there's a pkgbase way now. I've been building -STABLE from source for the past 25 years, so muscle memory kind of takes over.

You write so confuse, with an horrible punctuation, that one does not understand what you want. If you want others to take time to help you, please, take your time to write correctly and understandable. It seems, you want to use sendmail (what...

dgoodkin I noted the surveys since they started. Why is the Detailed Report of Findings of the 2025 Community Survey not so promoted to read here like the call to take part? This year's results are particularly interesting. Did you forget to...

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/#stable Check out the stable/15 branch and build world.

Probably an /etc/rc.d/* ordering problem. You can just hack it into /etc/rc.local for now.

People shouldn't say "lossless audio". A better term is "lossless compression".

Depends on your country. I tried an iPhone a couple years back but returned it to the Apple store after 30 days.

dgoodkin I noted the surveys since they started. Why is the Detailed Report of Findings of the 2025 Community Survey not so promoted to read here like the call to take part? This year's results are particularly interesting. Did you forget to...

I wish there was a way to try another phone without being stuck with it. I'd like to try an Apple phone but what happens if I don't like it?

I use Android Pixel phones. Although the practical reasons why I chose Android over IOS have been disappearing one after another over the years. I might pick an iPhone next cycle. I am impressed by how resistant IOS is against rooting. Wouldn't...

This is because the kmods pkg builder for quarterly (currently 2025Q4) repo is missingly picked latest (aka main) branch of ports. 2025Q4 doesn't have 580.105.08. On the other hand, latest branch of pkg repo has 580.105.02 both for main repo and...

None of the issues you have with the packages had anything to do with the OS update (or upgrade). I would suggest just removing one or more of the conflicting packages, and make a note if it wants to remove something you wanted to keep. Then...