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Alpine/Pine/Mutt and external viewers. The way email should be, although I do use claws-mail.

I'm using Xfce, and the settings are all out-of-the-box. It's set to click to focus, and no changes are happening between the NVIDIA driver switching when I change versions from 580 to 470. Here is the output of xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -lv in case...

You have to learn the entire ports framework which is too much asked for a 1000 lines single-file program. Using FreeBSD for 20 years but I never made an official port because it's a massive maze that takes too much time with few results. I would...

A little innovation in tcl9 helped me rewrite my "preprocessor" much shorter and more consistent (new escapes): the flag "-command" to regsub. Little innovation, big power! No more FORTRANic handcrafted parsing: Now it is more general purpose...

An Unix Workstation does not require a GUI. If you are using workstation tools that are graphical, yes. If you aren't, no. My programmers, and every place I worked, we didn't need or use graphical tools anywhere for programming. My graphics...

I used many years the BSD 'mail', read attachments with 'metamail'. You are right that now one gets links, attachments with images, so that GUI is inevitable. But I would never use a GUI program for mail, the idea is an horror. I use apline...

Indeed. Though a lot of people did weigh it up and change distros. Some distros like Devuan were even invented to avoid the breakage. BSDs also got a big boost to user-base. The bigger issue is that diverging from common software (i.e Debian...

Those look like files you would expect to be identified as having been changed from a bare install - you have added users, set up wireless, installed another shell, etc.

I do not paint and do audio. But I can tell you my 'alternative' to Openoffice: TeX. Well, it is not alternative, because Openofficice is far away to compete with TeX. And no, I do not reject GUI, but the nauseating GUI bloat.

Thanks. That looks so simple. I can't understand why I couldn't figure this out for myself.

If the corporations were just working on it for their own professional use, that wouldn't be so bad; they tend to do minimal work, avoid redundant or breaking changes and just fix issues. IBM's AIX is a fairly good example of this. Its the fact...

To be clear: you want two windows (not panes) [1] opened, each window split in two, right? Example: open two windows, split each horizontally: #!/bin/sh tmux new-session -s test -d tmux splitw -h tmux neww tmux splitw -h tmux attach-session -d...

Is it? What is Ardour/Rosegarden/LMMS alternative for CLI, what is Krita/Inkscape alternative, Openoffice? It seems like every week I need to remind people at least once of this concept...

Here you have ready do copy/paste guide without any 'bulky' additional ZFS modules or frameworks (like ohmyzsh) that works like a charm on FreeBSD/Linux/macOS/... https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/09/19/ghost-in-the-shell-part-7-zsh-setup/

I'm at the point where I don't care. Neither should you. They have their opinion and have points that are probably correct but you have your opinions which are true, too. Those who try and tear you down for your opinions without giving solid...

I encounter this often. Because that's how Linux users are. Not all of them, but there's large group of aggressive Linux stans. They constantly attack and spit on Windows users because, in their opinion, Linux is best at everything and the only...

Well that's an...interesting...comment.

If that’s the case then why has it only happened since I updated the NVIDIA drivers? And why do the issues disappear if I install a previous version of those drivers?

Usually static pages are not served from disk but from cache. So trying to read the modification time either causes unnecessary polling of the file on disk or returns bogus values for the cached data (e.g. last cache access) - either way, you...

Well that's an...interesting...comment.

NOTE: This may be related to this post, but I'm afraid I don't know enough about the subject to be sure. I am wondering if someone could help me. I am using a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 on FreeBSD 15-RELEASE, running Xorg (not Wayland yet). I...

The answer is simple, you're thoroughly, from bottom to top, wrong. More serious users have more serious PCs that have more serious amounts of cpu power and memory for that unnecessary weight, to run as option and not impede on the real workload...

Well that's an...interesting...comment.

^ freedom isn't convenience and it isn't "free time" left over by some optimal process. Don't drag Windows into this discussion, especially Windows 10. That is really a bad example for optimal processes and freedom. Windows 10 thinks all of your...

Most Linux people do not understand true freedom in principle. They think 'forced' freedom with GPL is the 'real' freedom - but this is not freedom - its forced ... something trying to be freedom. BSD people know that real freedom comes without...

Well, I think I am going to mark this solved. Going from a stack overflow thread at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57279116/actual-last-updated-date-with-javascript it seems the best way to do it, on static pages, which these are, is to...

It is a question of balance, I am not opposed to GUIs, but to this exaggeration called "Desktop environment whose goal is that almost everything must be done with the pointer / mouse. I use twm, of course configured with the keyboard and editor...

No. require('lspconfig') is deprecated.

It is colorized GUIs that overload neurons as they fire more and different sensors than plain text. That's why alerts flash and are red or yellow because they fire more sensors than nothing at all. If you keep adding more and more colors to...

I'm at the point where I don't care. Neither should you. They have their opinion and have points that are probably correct but you have your opinions which are true, too. Those who try and tear you down for your opinions without giving solid...

I didn't notice, OK lsdv should have shown zfs devices: zfs:zamd I have no idea why it doesn't. I assume loader.efi in /efi/boot/bootx64.efi or /efi/freebsd/loader.efi is up-to-date. Those directories are not gone (erased). A...

Years ago I had a friend who was blind. He was learning to become a piano tuner which seemed like a great job for a blind person. We were at another friend's house who had a piano. "What key is this?" someone asked as they pressed one. "D!" he...

Thanks for the information. I think I'm just going to gradually remove the script from pages as I come across them. I'm not going to mark it solved, as the issue remains (at least on Apache) but you folks have given me a better idea of what's...

Last-Modified is used for caching. It's not really made for the purpose you're using it for. If you want to send it, you need to use the extension mod_cache. That code is very strange as well. <center> is not closed, </font> closes a font tag...

The FreeBSD handbook used to have something on their myths page. I can't find it now, but it was Which is the second best answer to this I think. The best one is what msplsh said, "People are jerks". (Insert political opinion here, "Look how...

It is colorized GUIs that overload neurons as they fire more and different sensors than plain text. That's why alerts flash and are red or yellow because they fire more sensors than nothing at all. If you keep adding more and more colors to...

Here you have ready do copy/paste guide without any 'bulky' additional ZFS modules or frameworks (like ohmyzsh) that works like a charm on FreeBSD/Linux/macOS/... https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/09/19/ghost-in-the-shell-part-7-zsh-setup/

Most Linux people do not understand true freedom in principle. They think 'forced' freedom with GPL is the 'real' freedom - but this is not freedom - its forced ... something trying to be freedom. BSD people know that real freedom comes without...

This setup of mine with Openbox/Tint2/Dzen2 is ultra lightweight yet powerful and nice looking. Details here: - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/200-mb-ram-freebsd-desktop/

"still possible". That is not an achievement, that is a joke that shows how ridiculous is to have a "Desktop".

The answer is simple: if you have no "Desktop", you have something even much more lightweight that lacks of nothing that you may miss. All these "Desktops" is for people that do not want to learn some commands and even to deal with a real...

The syntax of ZFS "currdev" (or "rootdev") is currdev=zfs:dataset:. loader_simp currdev Selects the default device to loader the kernel from. The syntax is: loader_device: or...

Sure, you can keep it that way. Many 3rd party packages have a post-install messages. The specific configuration with PS2 mice is explained in the post-install message of x11-servers/xorg-server (which you may have found yourself). To read...

Because people believe what they wanna believe. It's their business. Your business is to create the best environment possible for yourself.

Hi all, Recently, I explained why I preferred FreeBSD to Systemd/Linux on a forum. But I received some particularly unpleasant feedback. I don't understand these people's motivations. Why are they attacking my freedom like this? FreeBSD has...

Does a /dev/psm0 device exist? Also check dmesg | grep psm, you should see the psm driver attaching.

To be clear: you want two windows (not panes) [1] opened, each window split in two, right? Example: open two windows, split each horizontally: #!/bin/sh tmux new-session -s test -d tmux splitw -h tmux neww tmux splitw -h tmux attach-session -d...

At least one person, you 😁 Depends. How many updates are they pushing out? A lot of the times its as simple as changing the DISTVERSION and updating the distfile.

Make sure it's connected when you turn on the machine. Most PS/2 ports on modern systems are disabled if nothing's connected to it when the system is powered up.

Look at the date, it's 17 years old.