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I'm not sure space saving is that important because the formats are so redundant that they compress very well. Unless you want to mmap(2) them later and don't have a filesystem with compression.

And if you can, consider installing a UPS. Even the most basic ones will give you enough time to save whatever you're currently working on, shut down the machine properly and some more. They will also protect you from power surges.

Haha, that's what first came to my mind, too!

Being up to date regarding security and errata patches before doing any minor or major upgrade is standard procedure, recommended even in the Handbook.

I got to test out a little more last night at home. I ran this on my primary FreeBSD installation on my home computer. I have three monitors, and experienced the same issue andger reported with multi-monitor. Not sure if this is not yet...

Ahhh. The wikipedia band member timeline chart. Thanks. Clearly I would just use whatever wikipedia uses.

Me neither! In the spirit of scientific discovery in inexact sciences, I will note here what has resolved the issue for me. First, more cache was needed. I set sysctl vfs.zfs.arc.max to 8GB. This permitted things like nightly reports to actually...

If you are used to the insubstantial blathering AI produces, any text actually written by a real human is good. 😁 (Not really. [This just as a prevention before some one points me to bad texts written by humans. I was joking, of...

I saw a video on that yesterday. I think what that sort of thing should tell people is that we need to return to the way that things were decades ago when most interactions with other internet users were some combination of forum, email and IM...

My Samsung S20 broke a couple of weeks ago. Insurance replaced it with a S22 Ultra. The thing has so many settings, it's like setting up FreeBSD. And don't get me started on how much power it sucks up. It's about twice the battery but dies just...

Who or what is Gantt? Can I drink it?

A lot of that is because people have gotten used to GUI tools that do the same job in a far less efficient way, or don't do everything and then just accept that it can't be done if the tool doesn't allow it. I've been using computers since the...

Your text is excellently written. You are a good writer. As for the topic you propose, I profoundly disagree. I started on the command line, in the 1980s, on CP/M and then MS-DOS, being very young. So I've done a lot of command line work, and I...

The lack of awareness is frustrating. I mean, looking at the computing specs of my previous Samsung phone, this is more computer than the last Pentium. People have no idea what it could be because everything is polluted with commercial platforms...

I had my colleagues literally freaking on me, as a technical superior they would come with project problems, and I would just tell them off; the problem is some of the GUI tools is now not working. A IDE is not pulling correct dependencies, IDE...

Please forgive a small digression, but behind everything a human creates, understands, and uses — even in the world of computers — there is always a quiet reflection of emotion. Lately, discussions often appear suggesting that BSD is meant for...

Are we now living in a world where a vnet jail is being considered "more safe" than a non-vnet jail?

if you think any of this slop is anything remotely close to safe we have a bridge to sell you

If you are used to the insubstantial blathering AI produces, any text actually written by a real human is good. 😁 (Not really. [This just as a prevention before some one points me to bad texts written by humans. I was joking, of...

Nope: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MXV80q17ww Year of the FreeBSD desktop for me started 2024 :cool: (I started 14.1 and it only took 1 version to see what's good) That video doesn't show much, but FreeBSD's the only OS I wanted to...

I'm continuing to figure it out; is it possible to expand the collapsed window of calls_cli_raise_toggle again without using the mouse?

Currently you can only raise with the mouse. The mode algorithm needs a little more improvement. Please try again in a few days time. Thanks for pointing that out.

Try deskutils/ganttproject deskutils/projectlibre editors/calligraplan

I don't have an example picture. Time should be shown from left to right and as in the Gantt diagrams the bigger wholes of work should show as bars from start date to end date. After these, maby a red to green bar to show software maintenance...

I like knowing exactly what this one-liner does consistently (installs a specific version of DXVK for WoW): DEL /Q "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\World of Warcraft 3.3.5\d3d9.dll" "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\World of Warcraft 3.3.5\Wow.dxvk-cache"...

I am using Postfix. In /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d there is only rspamd.newsyslog.conf. This issue is not limited to maillog — I just rotate maillog daily,so it is easier to notice there. The same behavior is observed with other log files...

I really enjoyed Michael Lucas's article. Agree with most of what he said, but I will admit that freebsd-update was the game changer that opened the door (for me) to adopt FreeBSD more. I run 100's of FreeBSD systems and can't imagine life...

ZFS uses transaction groups. Writes go into memory initially and are committed to the drive at the end of the each group. After an unclean shutdown the systems comes up a bit out of date, but fully self-consistent. You may be thinking of ZFS...

At this point, if you've successfully checked the filesystem consistency, reinstalled all your packages and recreated Firefox's profile, I'd seriously start suspecting disk damage. If I were you I'd do a backup of anything of value ASAP and run a...

I had problems with Firefox a few weeks ago. This fixed it for me:

People said the same thing about Xlibre. Considering that this has only been a few days, I wouldn't necessarily assume that there won't be a Windows version at some point.

I'm sorry

More like PACKAGESITE=http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/packages/All/ pkg_add -r mc, IIRC. -r is for fetching (remotely) from the ftp. You provide the full path, including the .tbz extension only...

Hello, I have an RTL9210B-CG device: Feb 10 05:47:31 watcher kernel: ugen0.4: <Realtek RTL9210B-CG> at usbus0 Feb 10 05:47:31 watcher kernel: umass0 on uhub1 Feb 10 05:47:31 watcher kernel: umass0: <Realtek RTL9210B-CG, class 0/0, rev...

Lock realistic Git use (and beyond) to "modern" computers for telemetry, but slow-boil style :p If they were serious, there'd be a Windows version too

And now there seems to be a fork that removes the rusty bits. https://github.com/Libre-WD-40/ LOL, I still don't really get what the point is of using Rust for this particular use when so many platforms that people use don't have a working...

Please forgive a small digression, but behind everything a human creates, understands, and uses — even in the world of computers — there is always a quiet reflection of emotion. Lately, discussions often appear suggesting that BSD is meant for...

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Discord might require a face scan or ID next month: https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1r057xx/discord_will_require_a_face_scan_or_id_for_full/...

Tech industries are run on buzzwords. If FreeBSD had a new buzzword to replace traditional words more industries would adopt it. Sales run on buzzwords and fud so you gotta give those sales people something to work with. Call saving data to disk...

Find an inexpensive Arm64 board to play with, like the Raspberry 500, or Raspberry 400 Keyboard model. Install FreeBSD.org/where find the RPI image and write the image into a microSD card or USB flash disk drive stick, to boot FreeBSD...

License. Always interesting always confusing. My opinions/understanding/very simplified: BSD has always been (very simplified) you can take this modify it sell it but there is no support GPL/LGPL has always been (again very very simplified)...

Note for future explorers: client-side window drop shadows are not the way!!! Seriously not the wayyyyyy. Drop shadows belong in the compositor. Doing them client-side leads to inconsistent geometry, broken hit-testing, and all kinds of subtle...

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Is this one of those "Dangerously Dedicated" disks? Does it have all the required boot code to actually boot? A proper bootstrap in the MBR in the portion before the partition table, a bootloader and something to boot (i.e. a kernel).

More like PACKAGESITE=http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/packages/All/ pkg_add -r mc, IIRC. -r is for fetching (remotely) from the ftp. You provide the full path, including the .tbz extension only...

At this point, if you've successfully checked the filesystem consistency, reinstalled all your packages and recreated Firefox's profile, I'd seriously start suspecting disk damage. If I were you I'd do a backup of anything of value ASAP and run a...

I wish I was only 53! ;)

This is a pretty fundamental issue at hand. I expect that this won't be the only fork.

Same here — 53 as well 🙂 Welcome to the 53 club!