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This lspci looks like it's muxless (Intel on main VGA/NVIDIA on 3D) I had this years ago for a 1060 laptop and Linux (nothing special iirc but forces specific DDX instead of modesetting): Section "OutputClass" Identifier "Intel Graphics"...

I'd avoid Ryzen 400-500 series (I had issues X470 PCVR and heard of other's having similar 500). Ryzen CPU and chipset USB would randomly disconnect Rift CV1 sensors or the HMD, but luckily my X470 board also had a separate ASMedia controller and...

Just FYI, lpd/lpr (the printer tools) will be removed. They are insecure and nobody volunteered to rewrite them.

MidnightBSD has already decided to change their license to prohibit use in California due to the Digital Age Assurance Act. Will FreeBSD be doing the same? https://ostechnix.com/midnightbsd-excludes-california-digital-age-assurance-act/

On a forum I posted a member introduction post (bit about myself), and at the bottom was a "allow AI responses" check; I had multiple paragraphs of info, hit post, and literally a second later a AI response came in also with a couple paragraphs...

There may have been changes in the mean time. That works on my system as well, but from what I can tell it does the same thing as pkg prime-list except that it will work if it's not the installed database.

It's a suburb of St Louis, Missouri

Well, I don't know what insecurities specifically are behind this. But FreeBSD is not in the habit of making new ports of vulnerable software.

It won't ever be complete in the way that normal users want because there's stuff that they refuse to implement themselves and refuse to accept patches to implement. It's stuff like the lack of support for multiple monitors making it a bit of...

One of the comments mentioned lprng

It's one of the reason I cannot say Wayland is complete.

How about Berkeley, Missouri? Home of the Mercury and Gemini space capsules and Boeing F-15EX Eagle II****T-7A Red Hawk trainer MQ-25 Stingray refueling drone, and formerly the F/A-18 Super Hornet. .

Mass surveillance is not the direction of travel in EU, but EU citizens are already mass-surveiled by American corporations through social network and the internet. Chat control (I don't agree with it not in a slightest) is one bad part of EU...

CUPS will definitely not end up in base.

As a FreeBSD user in California, things here have gotten pretty insane. FreeBSD is open source. On all the OSS OSs, this can be ripped out easily enough by the users who know how to do it, so the law now becomes unenforceable and it will make...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. The first release candidate build for the FreeBSD 14.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64...

IANAL and this isn't advice to anybody. But, the whole thing is a mess, any copies of the OS that were downloaded and installed prior to the law being enacted are likely grandfathered in due to not generally being able to ban things...

I have a much better and free solution. Better parenting. Forbid your child from accessing the things this is attempting to protect them from. Things like Reddit.

Will FreeBSD be available in California in 2027? Wait, doesn't freebsd come FROM california? As in "Berkeley software distribution"... ?!

Ya ! I actually think that is silly too ! :cool:

I have a much better and free solution. Better parenting. Forbid your child from accessing the things this is attempting to protect them from. Things like Reddit.

drhowarddrfine my thanks is for the laugh. The last sentence was perfect time, whether you meant it as a joke or not.

I have a much better and free solution. Better parenting. Forbid your child from accessing the things this is attempting to protect them from. Things like Reddit.

Flat out BS. Ban State of California usage and let the politicians unmake the mess they've created with braindead laws. Why should we taint the user record with politics-regulation stuff in the first place?

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I have a much better and free solution. Better parenting. Forbid your child from accessing the things this is attempting to protect them from. Things like Reddit.

Will FreeBSD be available in California in 2027? Wait, doesn't freebsd come FROM california? As in "Berkeley software distribution"... ?!

https://www.bannedincalifornia.org/

What exact EU "law" does this correspond to?

As someone who used to train protection dogs, (https://srobb.net/dog.jpg) with dogs, a direct stare is definitely a threat, although I would say there's more to it, stance, accompanying motion, etc. I lost my cats many years ago, though I had...

Flat out BS. Ban State of California usage and let the politicians unmake the mess they've created with braindead laws. Why should we taint the user record with politics-regulation stuff in the first place?

So? Reddit means nothing and is only home to the criminally insane and Linux users who are there only to bash FreeBSD.

Well, Newsom ain't gettin' my vote for president now. And seriously folks, that might matter enough to him so that if enough of us protest against this, he might be against it too. (I don't even know what Newsom's view on it is.) blackbird9 from...

I agree with you. Even though *my* use of (in this case) Japanese is minimal, Wayland can't do it all. I believe there are some other things that X can do, that Wayland can't, but as it's not that important to me at present, I haven't really...

Even if single compositor works, it's not at all sufficient to say Wayland is complete. ALL COMPOSITORS RUNNING ON WAYLAND SANELY WORK (means, Wayland itself mutually support sane work) ON ALL ENVIRONMENTS RUNNING WAYLAND is the prerequisite to...

Just FYI, lpd/lpr (the printer tools) will be removed. They are insecure and nobody volunteered to rewrite them.

The apstats stuff looks good, as would be expected. It's easy to forget how much good work was done in the past.

I still use the algorithms published in the Journal of Applied Statistics, mainly for the code quality and robustness - all the mathematical issues, convergence, handling of floating point, etc, have been carefully thought through...

Today I had to do some checks from my backups; was googling which table it is in. Posting here for future googlers: # sqlite3 /tmp/restore/mail/var/db/pkg/local.sqlite SQLite version 3.50.4 2025-07-30 19:33:53 Enter ".help" for usage hints...

Well, I have tools I can use in Windows, but I REALLY wanted to use FreeBSD because I thought it would be safer. OK. Later, Ken Gordon

If wayland is complete depends on what it claims to be. I don't know.

so, when I attempt to mount md0p3 using ntfs-3g, here is what I get: :/mnt/6TB # ntfs-3g /dev/md0p3 /mnt/Joes3 NTFS signature is missing. Failed to mount '/dev/md0p3': Invalid argument The device '/dev/md0p3' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS...

Disclaimer: I know nothing about this, but a quick search suggests using this to get debug info. That output is less than helpful. ntfs-3g -o debug /dev/ada2s1 /mnt/drive_d

Isn't that just knowing the exact operation of your graphics hardware? I think all that a display server or whatever you call it needs is the elementary information required to display things on a rectangular screen made of pixels, and...

Decades ago, I had nothing to do. I was an electronics guy but I had nothing to do one day and the software manager asked me to do him a favor and erase/reformat about 50 floppy disks using a computer in one large room. No, we didn't have a bulk...

OK. So, I input: mount -a -t filesystems/ntfs /dev/md0p3 /mnt/Joes3 Output is: mount: /dev/md0p3: File name too long Now, I have installed and use regularly, fuse ntfs-3g and, in fact, fuse ntfs-3g is in the kernel, as I use commands in fstab...

Well, I brought down my company's mailserver last Friday afternoon. (No, I didn't go home, leaving it broken). And, I'm sorta exaggerating. The time was way off on the server, I reset the time, checked right after to see mail wasn't working, sort...

vi mode is modal just as the vi editor is.

ntfs is not a valid mount option AFAIK. I think you need to use filesystems/ntfs