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Hard to tell because they stopped doing IRC logs in 2024. The previous directors meetings here show very little action. Almost nothing outside of XDC planning and re-elections. More leadership is demonstrated in an average Xlibre bug ticket ;)

That is the monitor lottery I spoke of earlier as I call it where they desktop opens the program on any damn monitor it chooses to do so on regardless of where you had it located. I eventually found a .kwin script that the author wrote to fix...

I'm pretty sure that I can make a video louder by using mixer. That is, meaning a youtube video. You could try, next time a video is too low, running the command mixer. It might show something like vol = 0.85:0.85 pbk as the first line. Then...

This all seems very familiar - and many or most should have learnt the hard way by now, from the systemd debacle, that this kind of thing is often agenda driven. What was so wrong with SDDM, that it had to be forked to a systemd dependent and by...

Yes they do it all the time I have lived it for the as I said past twenty-five years or so using it. Usually it is the new shinny coming along then they take and adopt that dropping the old like hot potato. Throwing away all of that work that...

You sound like a pretty good power-user/sysadmin to me with that! Reinstalls for me teach me what not to change on the next install, leading to a perfect set-up! I totally did a UFS format at first, got into it, then wiped on a whim to test ZFS...

Does not matter to me if you do. I was just pointing out your Wayland comment was ill-informed, they are doing it. 6.8 will not work with X, Gnome trolls have already killed off anything but Wayland/systemd garbage combination. And I will be here...

You have not been following this very closely. They have already set the timeline for dropping X11 when 6.8 is released early next year no more X. Then after that they will go systemd only that is why the setup work is being done now for the PLM...

I heard something a few months ago on Linux like FOSS OS-side codecs having lower sound quality on browser videos than non-FOSS (RPM Fusion, Packman; mega-repo non-distro stuff); not sure on specifics though (maybe FFmpeg libs? could be HW-accel...

I think WinXP is so old that fishing for exploitable targets probably isn't worth the effort. You aren't going to make a botnet of them and nobody does banking with it. 😆

Youtube is also special because you can adjust the volume right in the video. Maybe you turned that down?

bastille0 is a loopback address that Bastille uses for non-VNET jails. It is not needed for VNET jails.

Youtube is a problem anyway because video's have different volume. I wonder why they don't just equalize everything after it's uploaded... Worse is surround records dumb converted to stereo, so the rear channels get equal volume. I think it all...

I use Chromium. Not sure what an audio chain means. Have never installed any audio drivers, I just use whatever gets installed with Chromium, mpg123, mpv, vlc etc.

I use whatever default FreeBSD gives me. I really am a novice when it comes to multimedia on FreeBSD.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypIBIUMVCkg

To get video starting after the first 10 seconds to last 30 seconds ffmpeg -ss 10 -i original.mp4 -t 30 new.mp4 I've read, though not proven, that put the starting seconds at the beginning helps find the spot to start more quickly than ffmpeg...

My "vibe" coding is looking at notes and seeing if I get a vibe for anything I can improve :cool: It works pretty well! I might catch inconsistencies between website confs, or see a new way of doing something on older notes that I did on newer...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaPdpwA4Iw&list=RDGDaPdpwA4Iw&start_radio=1

VLC can quickly export clipped sections of video surprisingly well! I wanted to do that for a while but didn't want to learn a video editing tool :p

Trying to get my FreeBSD server to act as a gateway to an OpenVPN connection... I have the OpenVPN connection working, it's up on tun0, and I have gateway_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. What I want is the FreeBSD machine to accept traffic from the...

All of UT games back in the day started with Unreal Mode. It is the initial mode set by BIOS on Pentium and up, all the way to UEFI ;)

Yeah, what does your audio chain look like? Starting from which browser do you use?

All of UT games back in the day started with Unreal Mode. It is the initial mode set by BIOS on Pentium and up, all the way to UEFI ;)

And another thing: providers usually do not give a complete client side config because they don't know your OS. Windows based programs create one fr scratch. In FreeBSD you need to do it manually.

I wonder if it's possible to use Unreal Mode at all today? It'd be interesting to see Unreal Tournament using it :cool:

Yeah. Because they needed to assist the developer in working around seg:offset model. So they made few of those 'T-shirt' size presets, of which compact was IMO mostly used, as it was uncommon to have more than 64kb of code. And yep this thing...

In Firefox you can manually confogure to listen to a proxy port. If this is also available in Chromium, then yes.

I could do with some guidance on logging dnsmasq activity. In the sample conf it mentions log-queries and log-dhcp but I'm not clear where this logging is output. Anyone know?

I wonder if it's possible to use Unreal Mode at all today? It'd be interesting to see Unreal Tournament using it :cool:

What can happen? I once intentionally left running my XP game PC with internet connection. Nothing happened in 2 days, but it had no working browser and mail program either. Maybe I should give it a hostname and run some services to attract...

There must be some misunderstanding here. I'm just hoping that I get a shortcut to a manpage.

I keep thinking that Harlan D. Mills and Edsger Dijkstra, both of whom fought for more rigor in programming, must be turning in their graves.

That it does. There is no change on my (Intel based) HP 840 but on the (AMD based) Framework 13 the tiny font becomes larger after amdgpu.ko is loaded. When XDM runs none of it matters anyway.

I come to think following Gtk major versions is not a good thing, as Gnome is going to dispose X11. Forking Gtk3 and maintaining (by someone possible, but unfortunately, not me) it seems to be way to go. Or fork upcoming Gtk5 to adapt again with...

I think historically the mode wasn't known until proliferation of Windows 2 and DOS 5, coming with HIMEM driver for 286 in late 80s. 386 was already a thing. Also it is merely an extension of real mode as far as segmentation is concerned. The...

Interesting! But unfortunately, as far as I know, no compilers available (and not hard to find where they're sold) supported the mode at least in Japan, especially outside Tokyo. More, if I recall correctly, no Japanese computer magazines focused...

I tried it with ChatGPT a few times. Not seriously but to see what it could do. I wasn't impressed, disappointed actually. However management at $JOB is pushing AI to virtually all staff. Not just any AI but the tools that have been sanctioned...

Aww, those poor little sweethearts have never had to do cross platform development before. They just call into a "clever" C library (through various bindings) that does this difficult work for them. So its fair that they wouldn't know or...

Maybe this webpage will be of help: https://justinchips.medium.com/have-vim-emacs-tmux-use-system-clipboard-4c9d901eef40 Summary: - If you are using GUI Emacs, the integration comes built-in and should be working. - I you are using Emacs in the...

</cleanup> Hey, can we all return to the issue at hand and stop the sniping and bickering?

Hopefully LLMs will do significant help doing a manpage.

Love me some old SPARCs.

The only proper solution.

There's no "default" version.

Maybe here is an answer?

</cleanup> Hey, can we all return to the issue at hand and stop the sniping and bickering?

Aww, those poor little sweethearts have never had to do cross platform development before. They just call into a "clever" C library (through various bindings) that does this difficult work for them. So its fair that they wouldn't know or...

Do you have a link on how it does that?