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I have not the slightest idea. I'm too burned out exhausted by the text I wrote to comprehend what you mean. 😎 All I know is when I ask AI some philosophical question I get garbage. And when I flag out it's gabage it apologizes and produce even...

beastiegirl for example, I use openbox at times. There is a file $HOME/.config/openbox where it has its configuration, including an autostart file. I just want it to start with a background and tint2 (a window manager bar). So, my...

loveydovey, without pretending to read wolffnx's mind, seems like he just would like to go on irc and chat. I imagine that someone who desires themselves to be tested on their security could probably find an irc channel for that (though I haven't...

Not sure if it's still the case, but at some point I built a custom kernel without all the COMPAT_FREEBSDxx shims. I always build my own package repositories, for their specific FreeBSD version so I figured I didn't need the old version...

My guess would be 13.2 or maybe an unpatched 13.3. Almost certainly an EoL 13.x version (13.5-RELEASE has OpenSSL 1.1.1w).

beastiegirl depending on your Window Manager, you may have an autostart progam available which lets you start various programs when X comes up.

There are free proxies for IRC so that your real IP is known only to the proxy. I use irccloud anyway, so they hide my IP.

MSDOS filesystems are limited to 2 GB file size and cannot be case sensitive. Bad choice.

I'm also wondering--maybe someone knows, sees this, and can answer--if we still need the /usr/share/keys/pkgbase-15 or if you can now use what's in the wiki, the /usr/share/keys/pkg. If I have time today I might throw together a VM and see. If...

prince2phor59, sorry I don't use bluetooth, so I'd be unable to help there. But this forum has a lot of knowledgeable and helpful people. And do take a look at the man page that POSIX.1 linked, they can be very helpful, and there are probably...

Hrrm, that's new. I've seen that on some CURRENT VMs, but haven't seen it on a RELEASE. I'm honestly not sure. It looks as if something's wrong with the branch, hopefully, someone with more knowledge can chime in.

Kernel has nothing to do with it. Besides the fact that third party kernel modules typically need to be build for your specific kernel version. I have an old system, has been upgraded many times over the years. Has an old GT220 Nvidia chipset...

SSL/TLS only encrypts the traffic between your client and the IRC server (or web server, or whatever else you connect to). It does NOT hide your IP address.

Basic rdr: rdr on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to ($ext_if) port 80 -> 192.168.100.12 port 80 Routing table will do the rest. Packet filters like PF manipulate packets, it's not a routing engine.

Always a possibility of course. I'd run a memory test and perhaps look at some SMART data from the disks. Just to rule out any potential issues with those.

Yes. x11/nvidia-kmod-580, x11-nvidia-driver-580 and x11/linux-nvidia-libs-580 are certainly planned once their master port pointing to Production Branch of drivers switch to 590 or later series of drivers, which drops pre-Turing generarions of...

No. You cannot "bounce" packets out the same interface they came in on. Besides that, connections to the second IP address (from the host itself) would never go out of the interface, the IP address is accessible on the host. If you look at your...

I suspect a legacy version Nvidia driver will be kept, like x11/nvidia-driver-470 (forever stuck on 470.x), x11/nvidia-driver-390 (forever stuck on 390.x), etc. So, instead of following x11/nvidia-driver for the latest NVidia driver version, you...

It was never included in the base OS? net/aoe?

Remove: console="nmdm0" What exactly do you mean? There's no graphics (VNC) enabled?

I'll give it a shot; apologies in advance if it gets long, apologies if some of the wording is not "exactly correct", apologies for leaving out things like SMP, multiple CPUs, scaling, etc because I'm trying to keep it simple. Every command you...

Issue vanished after a " make clean" and full rebuild.

This is true but individuals are more likely to show personal opinion than technical correctness and contain errors or information that's more outdated cause they never go back and update anything. At least the Handbook is overseen on some...

Building and installing are different topics. I've installed FreeBSD many times and now have developed my own method which consists of using Ventoy. Ventoy itself needs two partitions. The second one which stores all the Ventoy system files only...

What does one do when one asks AI what happens with some advice it gave and that's its answer?

This is true but individuals are more likely to show personal opinion than technical correctness and contain errors or information that's more outdated cause they never go back and update anything. At least the Handbook is overseen on some...

Hi balanga! Both the Handbook and Wisellama's post were helpful when I started self-compiling FreeBSD a few months ago. A simple step to save potential trouble when self-compiling might be to use a separate machine that can be easily wiped and...

Sometimes somebody's personal perspective explains things in a different way which is easier to follow than a guide provided by The Handbook. I often find a blog a useful supplement to official guides when I don't understand them or when certain...

that looks legit, but if the handbook is out-of-date that's a bug in the handbook and should be fixed

I wouldn't use information I find from third-party sites for FreeBSD unless I was completely out of other options. A lot of information is out of date and sometimes written by users who primarily use Linux or other UNIX systems. Sometimes they...

You mean Clippy?

Ohhhhhh boys!!!!! yes, I am excited! Why? Because I just ripped out Flutter’s newest rendering engine, Impeller(BSD-3). It’s written in C++, and I also pulled their latest Render List, converted the entire build system to CMake, and wired it up...

For those of you who play games or are into vfx, I’d love to collaborate and help get your projects running as smoothly as possible. If you’re willing to support my efforts, I’m fully committed to doing everything I can to make that happen. I...

Ohhhhhh boys!!!!! yes, I am excited! Why? Because I just ripped out Flutter’s newest rendering engine, Impeller(BSD-3). It’s written in C++, and I also pulled their latest Render List, converted the entire build system to CMake, and wired it up...

At this point, the package tool and ports system are working, and I have around 35 functional ports so far, with more in progress. Before I wipe /usr/local and replace it with a link pointing to /usr/ports/profile/current, I want to make sure I...

The only slightly annoying thing about this type of system is that changing anything even adding a single "." produces a different hash. That’s a good from a security standpoint, but it becomes annoying when you’re creating ports and need to make...

One of the problems I find with The Handbook, is that you never really know if it is uptodate with the the latest release. FreeBSD has been around since 1993, that's 33 years, so there will be thousands of guides and you never really know if you...

Actually, my eventual aim is to try and build every release of FreeBSD. At the end of this project, I may figure out how to build v1.0.

Definitively not. First "buildworld", then "buildkernel" (not the other way around), to provide up-to-date tools to build the kernel. The correct order to build from source is described in the FreeBSD handbook, chapter 26.6. Updating FreeBSD...

My laptop's unlocked BIOS has a setting under Memory to "Actively prevent Rowhammer"; I disable it :p I'm not too impressed with software trying to do stuff hardware does at lower-level; my hardware lets me disable safety, but apps want to force...

Fortunately, 100% isn't typically necessary, it just has to be good enough that the work to exploit it isn't profitable in most cases. And that can be accomplished using a series of different measures from hardening systems, to not paying ransoms...

FreeBSD should probably be the end goal for any computer user. But you should have specific needs to get there. The learning progression should probably be Windows -> Linux -> FreeBSD. Don't switch from Windows unless there's something you...

Yes, freebsd is good.

Firstly it is a pleasure to introduce myself to the community. I've been a long standing advocate of many things Open Source, and the after-life Unix community. I currently run a multi-purpose FreeBSD backbone server as part of my financial...

Definitively not. First "buildworld", then "buildkernel" (not the other way around), to provide up-to-date tools to build the kernel. The correct order to build from source is described in the FreeBSD handbook, chapter 26.6. Updating FreeBSD...

For those of you who play games or are into vfx, I’d love to collaborate and help get your projects running as smoothly as possible. If you’re willing to support my efforts, I’m fully committed to doing everything I can to make that happen. I...

My renderer is hybrid: Vulkan, OpenGL, or CPU can be selected per configuration depending on workload and hardware. The render path is retained mode with explicit control over frame submission, damage regions, and synchronization. For fullscreen...

That's a somewhat tougher question, it's all going to depend on what the purpose is. FreeBSD clearly isn't better on Sega Dreamcast than NetBSD is. Most of the time, the correct answer is to load whatever it is up in a VM and see. That should...

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...

It does. I'm not sure why OP is going with that page as the handbook page is the same information from what I can tell and probably easier to follow. I haven't personally bothered recompiling things in quite a while,, so I didn't realize that...