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Alain De Vos, thanks for giving your solution. I remember at one point, I couldn't get Wayland working with Nvidia--in my case, eventually the drivers and drm-kmods were updated and that fixed it for me. I have an Nvidia GeForce GT1030). I...

Don't bother with those usb-dongles, just go for a networked one as you always want to position them independently from some computer to get good signal coverage. I recently switched to the sonoff dongle max because the firmware of those...

Try to set environment variable in a sh script in here so that it gest picked up for the whole kde session : .config/plasma-workspace/env/

Absolutely. The foundation has an impossible task: Support a good operating system Support a popular operating system These are mutually exclusive properties. The latter helps to ensure funding but then, for what purpose? The niche of a...

Is a ZigBee USB dongle known to work with FreeBSD? I suppose some do and some don't. Although would I be able to identify which chip they use or do they all need to use the same?

The "stated goals of the FreeBSD Foundation" to a large extent come from the donors. If one particularly large donor puts in a large 6-digit number of $$$ into the foundation to make desktop usage of FreeBSD work better, that becomes the goal of...

I use Tcl (often with Expect) when I get to choose. I also like Perl. Python's not my cup of tea. I studied it for over one hundred hours back in 2017; I found it ever more insufferable the further I went. But it's hard to avoid by those with...

Yes - WiFi is the exception here, all the others need a dongle ("gateway", "controller" and so on) to communicate with the devices.

Can you be specific as to which one? Do I just need to do a search for ZigBee USB dongle ?

As far as I know, you need a USB dongle for your computer to communicate with the Zigbee network...

As far as I know, you need a USB dongle for your computer to communicate with the Zigbee network...

I use Tcl (often with Expect) when I get to choose. I also like Perl. Python's not my cup of tea. I studied it for over one hundred hours back in 2017; I found it ever more insufferable the further I went. But it's hard to avoid by those with...

I used to read some people saying bad things about Tcl, sometimes repeating some very old and wrong ideas. Decided to give it a try. Compared its speed against another candidate, Raku (Perl 6) and for my test case, Tcl single threaded was as fast...

It also makes it a total pain to generate Python code from other programs.

tcl also.

Perl is the way,

Just because you can't use Perl doesn't mean it's a bad language. You can do anything in Perl that you can do in Python (but not vice versa).

I don't like Python at all. I find the indentation of the lines being part of the syntax too avant-garde for my tastes.

Too bad Perl6 didn't work out.

TCL is my favorite go to scripting language for everything string related for the past 20 years. I can highly recommend it. For everything related to binary data I use C and started to learn Go.

TCL doesn't suck. In fact it is one of the most coherent languages out there.

The typical scripting languages like Python, Ruby, TCL and Perl have some problems in common: Multithreaded code doesn't spread to multiple cores No compile-time type checking About 80 times slower than C, which together with using only a...

Definitively: tcl + tk + sqlite3.

I had used this guide to set up jails in the past and it seemed like a PITA and was very pleased to come across IOCAGE which makes things much easier. I did come across https://freebsd.github.io/iocage/ which helped me initially but...

Zigbee is something I have not come across before and am still trying to figure how such devices are controlled. I probably won't until I try to set up some home automation system. According to this video which is supposed to show how the system...

Sounds cool but I'd be more confident in seeing everything already with RDP :p Can't imagine doing it on *nix, but doing nginx conf with GUI floating folders, notepads, and a small Firefox window was more convenient than messy in the moment :p...

Try using 7-zip (7z) instead of tar to extract the files from the .iso image.

Many thanks for this. I was under the impression that tar would extract all the files from the ISO. Maybe there is some parameter which would cause tar to extract subdirectories. I finally have some understanding as to how this works. I also...

You are a true archivist, Espionage724. I'm sure many random people, but particularly web crawlers and LLM crawlers, enjoy very much stumbling into your wiki.

I leave random notes on my wiki to kind-of do reporting :p (like this for Firefox and sndio; post) I note it as a fix, but haven't re-checked that issue since 14.3 (I think ESR did something different than main 15.0+ to where forcing sndio might...

I'd be more concerned about this if there weren't so many other DEs and WMs to choose from that are still pretty user friendly and if it couldn't be used at all. At this stage, FreeBSD, and really *BSD in general, is still obscure enough that...

LOL, I"m having the same sort of issue with Gallium OS, there's some sort of race condition with my mouse so that it will sometimes completely freeze, but at random. Fortunately, the keyboard and power button work so that I can deal with it...

Try using 7-zip (7z) instead of tar to extract the files from the .iso image.

Looks like there's 7nuj22uc\[BOOT]\Boot-1.44M.img (guessing it boots to C:\ with files within that 1.44M.img); iirc there's a way to check mounted disks, but I'd try random paths like: A:\lcreflsh.bat D:\lcreflsh.bat X:\lcreflsh.bat Or take...

From what I understand, if you go with something that is on a non-wifi network like through Zigbee, then it's not going to be able to get onto the rest of the network unless you attach it to something that is itself connected to the internet. I...

You can enable 'developer mode' on your Android phone and get some additional options. For example I have changed/enabled two things on my phone: - as long as its attached to USB cable - do not lock the screen - whenever I attach that phone to a...

Don't post configs; post an abstract, then troubleshoot more and come back to the thread :D I'd never press Alt + F4 on desktop without a window being forefront and expecting it to close, but if the whole DE closed, it could be a good idea to...

I wasn't a fan of having to make coffee taste good; I had a french press, grinder, AeroPress, and made a perfect tasting cup with the timings and temperatures once on accident 😆 I'm not into sugar, and bullet-proof with butter or heavy-whipping...

Looks like there's 7nuj22uc\[BOOT]\Boot-1.44M.img (guessing it boots to C:\ with files within that 1.44M.img); iirc there's a way to check mounted disks, but I'd try random paths like: A:\lcreflsh.bat D:\lcreflsh.bat X:\lcreflsh.bat Or take...

For something that's common knowledge, this is the first I've heard of it after 22 years in this FreeBSD community and my company used to upgrade everything from ports. So I'm guessing we're not talking the same terminology.

Finally some good news for the weekend :)

Info: https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-build/pull/259 View: https://x.com/Ericbsd/status/2014513591433474392 I don't have an opinion. Have fun commenting. (I don't know why I write things like this. The megalomaniac in me, I guess). Edit...

Finally some good news for the weekend :)

You can enable 'developer mode' on your Android phone and get some additional options. For example I have changed/enabled two things on my phone: - as long as its attached to USB cable - do not lock the screen - whenever I attach that phone to a...

PPP links change state asynchronously! You must use ppp.linkup and ppp.linkdown to manage the state transitions.

In 1972, or thereabouts, I was the audio engineer for a popular band's radio show. The show usually appeared with a live audience at the main sponsor's building but, once a week, went on the road to a small town about 20 miles away. This...

??? Doesn't it do that now? I don't understand.

tcsh for root and user. sh can use colors in prompt (testested in 15.0-RELEASE, maybe it should works in 14.x-RELEASE too) but do not manage well multiline prompt

use ... instead

You know you're going to hell.