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You don't have to use Spectrum's VoIP service. We get very inexpensive and functional VoIP from voip.ms, for about $2 per month. It might be possible to get Spectrum down much further. Several neighbors use it, because in our area (rural and...

So it was Linux' fault that triggered it but bad error handling (or lack of same) in FreeBSD that made it a hard to debug problem.

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55373

They will probably reject my merge request but I have poked the bear. 🤣 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-login-manager/-/merge_requests/107/diffs#fb94cd5d91673499b20f51d18b361552fc5a0bd3

I love playing music at random. My current playlists total more than 80,000 songs (5,000 songs x 16 playlists and working on the 17th). From big band jazz to speedcore and grindcore.

What about other satellite internet providers? A friend a while back had Hughesnet that early 2000s was kind-of slow and had bandwidth limits, but during a small window around 3AM it was fast no limits :p Even if the speeds were still slow...

Heh I got that show on my NAS :p I like queuing up a bunch of shows in folders and playing on shuffle; I make whatever TV channel I feel like that moment :p It started years ago with Adult Swim/Cartoon Network changing shows around and then my...

The point is that they've changed from the default and you can do your own investigation if that's not expected. There are other tools like tripwire and mtree that can give you something that you check before making changes and then log the...

Which then extends to making up "facts" that supposedly support their preferences. Which is just as bad here as elsewhere. ... FreeBSD users on this forum who are vicious about Linux, Windows, MacOS, and whatever else. Often with made-up...

Google search does that many in a minute or less. There are 1440 minutes in a day.

This must be some sort of record:

Beats mine, but Firefox wasn't the concern with this screenshot :p (bun uses a lot of RAM)

have you tried to "duck duck go" the question of "how do I export a google chat"?

I've recently found a Google Chat which I thought I had lost. Does anyone know of a way of downloading it and viewing it outside of Google Chat?

I got back to setting up pxebooting and found it suprisingly easy to get going. I use dnsmasq to serve up images and it only needs a few settings.

cross: I am using that setup: FreeBSD server with Jellyfin service Nvidia Shield Pro with Jellyfin client This works perfectly for me. However, since NFS on Android (at least on the the Shield) is iffy, the server runs both NFS and Samba, the...

FreeBSD has been essential to most of my jobs since the end of the nineties. Admittedly, I introduced it in most cases.

Hmm. Browsing around the internet, asking myself "do I want to use Jellyfin as a streaming server on my new FreeBSD server?" this thread has me concerned that it might not be wise. I have an nVidia Shield TV Pro, running Kodi, and I have for...

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...

Since I ask the tarot cards, I make no errors and all my coding is memory-safe without even trying!

"You are either with us/Linux, or against us/Linux"

Or perhaps use older standards: mandoc -Tman txl.mdoc > txl.man

this seems like it should be cause for serious self-reflection, but what do we know, we're just a coyote

Without understanding mdoc, those .Cm introduce text as bold face, have clearly a wanted effect in the representation, perhaps their are though to be used in other logical context.

I dunno about that. When I'm in Dutchland I can read restaurant menus but not much else.

I will make a hobby of bumping all Alain threads all the time. It's forum culture.

So it was Linux' fault that triggered it but bad error handling (or lack of same) in FreeBSD that made it a hard to debug problem.

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55373

Thanks, I may try this, as maybe it will be a workaround until the defect is fixed. I'm not sure if the issue is unique to my graphics card though and, if so, if a bug has been logged for it. I may just wait until 580.126.18 is in the LATEST...

This cannot be repeated often enough or widely enough ! ! !

Did you try with another compositor like x11-wm/picom ? I also have some strange things with the Xfce one and my GT 610. I am using x11-wm/picom with x11/mate and x11-wm/fvwm3 to suppress tearing with Xorg and it does a good job.

Just for what it's worth, I've found whenever I've called Spectrum to complain about price, they have worked with me to lower it. I actually called them a few days ago, as my price had gone up again, and, as I told them, had they not gotten...

I have no problem with being the black sheep. My other hill I'm willing to die on is Lisp, and that rather ups your rep score.

The closer I get to "retirement" the fewer opinions I care about. My dogs, my wife, the butcher that is cutting me a 4lb boneless ribeye roast from the big end: those I care about. The rest of humanity? Not so much.

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devel/hello_world has no dependencies and only 1 version. It's on my github. First thing needed: a working Makefile that fetches the source file and registers the package hello_world. The result is /usr/local/bin/hello_world existing and pkg info...

Where it really shines is outside of Linux/BSD and with RISC OS. So much great software for it including word processors, art suites, compilers that see it as a "high end" machine so runs blazingly fast. Random screenshots. The original...

Yes, the 1650 GPU is supported with the latest 580 driver. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/264091/ The 470 driver should work as well. It's listed as a legacy driver. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/226762/

Click to focus: that rules out any focus follows mouse (I prefer focus follows mouse so I usually have to tweak things so windows don't autoraise on me). I'm at the point of "out of ideas" other than "there is a nvidia-drm-515" plus a few other...

That's approach from the wrong side, in my opinion. I made hello_world.c. Where can I find the things that are needed to make it a port that can be built and installed with the "make install" command? This is a checklist...

Hi All I'm using ports-mgmt/pkg to installing got "file not found" failed even if it was previously installed Example 1: ... [54/76] Installing sysconftool-0.22... [54/76] Extracting sysconftool-0.22: 100% [55/76] Installing...

Did you make sure seatd is running? I'm not sure from the error message that it is (running). The handbook covers Wayland, https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wayland/ (though they don't mention hyperland there). Anyway, you will need...

Very true. Though the direction of the leadership is to remain UNIX-like. With GNU and Linux this has only ever been a symptom of its legacy, rather than a direction. Big, tangled and heavy has always been the GNU way. Plus BSD leadership isn't...

I still use mutt, and only on occasion do I have to use an external viewer to see some html stuff that isn't visible in text. (and most times, those turn out to be spam. The more reputable companies and my doctors use whatever they use and I can...

To add to this - I really massively dislike all the mess around fancy stuff like high bitrate. most of people is more that ok with 44.1kHz. what is little bit more viable is bit depth. 16bit does not cover all the the dynamic range human ear can...

Just for what it's worth, I've found whenever I've called Spectrum to complain about price, they have worked with me to lower it. I actually called them a few days ago, as my price had gone up again, and, as I told them, had they not gotten...

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/

Garbled/distorted sound in bitperfect mode is an indication of following: 1. the audio file is not exactly 96kHz. that is then hardware does not properly process it. 2. most likely - judging from the same experience that I also have with 2...

Every month? I just had a $5 increase last week for the first time in who knows how long. At least two years. I don't use it but over the past year I've seen a significant number of the flat antennas popping up in rural areas.