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My personal problem is converting videos towards an audio-codec my DVD driver understands. With never videos always fail ...

Now I have succeeded the test in the case of x86_64 FreeBSD to emit ELF relocatable object file. Link successfully completed. The hello world code works.

I spent 3 months nose down with ffmpeg correcting the green tint on the original Fellowship of the Ring Blu-Ray. Nice text adventure.

I spent 3 months nose down with ffmpeg correcting the green tint on the original Fellowship of the Ring Blu-Ray. Nice text adventure.

Y'know, I take care to be technical here. Providing technical reasons for not needing something is not considered demeaning at all, at least not on these Forums. Asking someone to stick to the topic of the conversation is NOT a rude thing to...

> So I went out and bought six or eight computers That's some dedication to OS testing. 😅 EDIT: and to avoiding saying "six, seven"

I think I am lucky that i can passthrough some USB ports of my desktop to one VM without buying anything. $ pciconf -lv | grep -A4 xhci xhci0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x0c0330 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x1022 device=0x43ec subvendor=0x1b21...

I just use a small script I wrote years ago, because I'd look up the temperature and my wife is more familiar with Celcius. So, I'd look up the temperature in Farenheit, from a local site. Then #!/bin/sh echo "Enter Farenheit temperature" read...

That bug was fixed in an ALPHA before 15.0-RELEASE. And it wasn't so much a bug in 15.0-RELEASE, it was a bug in freebsd-update (on older releases) that failed to account for some changes in 15.

> So I went out and bought six or eight computers That's some dedication to OS testing. 😅 EDIT: and to avoiding saying "six, seven"

ffmpeg looked complex and I haven't used it directly :p I compiled StepMania with it, and iirc think ffmpeg or libs were useful for video playback or thumbnails. I used HandBrake for video converting and stuff with subtitles.

I am running Nextcloud v31.0.14 (Hub 10, bc v32 still does not support Maps) on FreeBSD 14.4R by Hiawatha HTTP server with PHP-FPM, MySQL and Redis (recommended over Memcached).

Hi all. I've got a strange issue that I hope someone can help with. I have had an OpenVPN server running on 13.5-RELEASE for many years, and I recently decided it was time to update to 15.0-RELEASE. Everything went fine, but when I rebooted I...

These are the default settings in https://github.com/tschettervictor/bsd-apps/blob/main/nextcloud/nextcloud-install.sh /bin/sh # Install Nextcloud APP_NAME="Nextcloud" APP_VERSION="32" ADMIN_PASSWORD=$(openssl rand -base64 12) MX_WINDOW="5"...

I am running Nextcloud v31.0.14 (Hub 10, bc v32 still does not support Maps) on FreeBSD 14.4R by Hiawatha HTTP server with PHP-FPM, MySQL and Redis (recommended over Memcached).

I've never heard of caddy. Can't I use apache? I didn't see either caddy or postgreql among the pkgs installed in my iocage jail. Maybe I should start again and post my edited install.sh...

The script installs caddy as the webserver, either mariadb or postgres depending on what you choose as the database, and configures the admin user with a random password. All the info is shown at the end and saved inside the root directory...

If you only have the bare metal and one VM then a simple PCIe card will be enough. You run the bare metal one with the on-mainboard controller and the VM with the PCIe card. But you don't know what you need in the future. Maybe more VMs. As I...

They have several now. The classic in-kernel one and the one that systemd brings.

You need to upgrade all of your packages anyway so why not just save yourself the trouble: backup anything you may want to keep from /usr/local and then nuke the entire thing (pkg databases and /usr/local) and reinstall your packages. It will...

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I found out about OOM killer on Linux trying to compile LineageOS :p But that was interesting: Wayland was a larger priority than session restore, OOM killer didn't mind taking out DEs, along with somehow still a thing with 1TB swap involved.

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Nextcloud is an OK-ish solution, but Onlyoffice is trash - as others mentioned it is slow, clunky and tedious to work with. Just sync files via Nextcloud and edit them locally (e.g. LibreOffice).

Thanks for creating this script. Is it supposed to install a webserver and sql server as part of the installation? It would be useful if the install included dialog4ports instead of manually editing install.sh. Can I simply add my own password...

Since I built this script, what are your questions?

I think the idea of Nextcloud is to integrate apps within a single framework rather than using separate apps. I'm only just exploring it at the moment but it looks like you can do so much under a Nextcloud umberella. View...

Good find. I didn't realize they even had that. ZFS compression seems like the better option here.

I don't think there are multiple controllers on there.

Yes. Those services typically create specific user accounts; www for example. No, they're typically locked. And usually have their login shell set to /usr/sbin/nologin. Why would you allow an account like www to login via ssh? You seem to be...

Hi, i would like to report my finding for maybe they will be of use to others. i am using a FreeBSD 14.3 as my main desktop machine since a few months. One of the few problems i found is that Thunderbird hangs miserably, and when it does it...

It's even worse than that, because they are going to be the next senior devs, no matter what. I'm already annoyed by how much my generation, becoming professional in the mid-2000, lost from previous ones by going all in on the web and forgetting...

Thanks Alfredo. I found myself having a bit deeper thoughts on the subject after I posted the "fk them do nothing" bit.

Zare, I agree. You express your ideas very clearly and they make much sense. 👍

Sadly, I do agree. However I still think we should ring all bells about it. We are protecting the children, lawmakers aren't. FreeBSD and alike enable self-sufficient technical users that control 100% of their hardware. Those users can set up...

Agencies? In California, the laws were passed by the legislature. It can only be changed by the legislature. So you need to contact about 120 elected legislators. Note that because of short term limits (6 years for the lower house, 12 for the...

We have a saying about this. When "the children" are mentioned by lobbyists or law makers, put firmly one hand on your rights and one on your wallet.

By my heart, I would still do that. But from my current perspective, which is an outsider one. I decided post this from a more even perspective, realizing I may not know the (financial) consequences on the project. Example, a big funder of...

graphics/drm-61-kmod isn't supported on i386.

The Intel Atom N270 is a CPU that supports Intel 64, why is it running on 32 bit?

I switched my webserver to TLS 1.3 a while back (exclusive for a while but later alongside 1.2; FF still defaulted 1.3) and haven't seen any issues any OS. On my router with OpenWRT I think I had oddities if I messed with hardware offload or...

Indeed. This happens when computers are seen as completely black box. People does not know for what lpd or cups is there, only know that they must do something with them for printing, and if lpd is not there, then cups must be there. Cups...

Also cups needs ppd drivers for your specific printer. If no ppd driver exists , problem. For intelligent printers you can use netcat , nc. How i currently print : gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pxlmono \ -dDuplex=true -dTumble=false \...

when you need to install a web interface for something as simple as sending a document to a printer, something is wrong. It feels like systemd...

No, it is not. Period. It is perhaps easiest only for people that do want to take a little of time and learn before configuring. That user should be using MS Windows, not FreeBSD. I will not bloat my system for doing something like: cat...

The whole bare metal is an isolated install. It also has snapshots that cannot be reached from said machine. A jail wouldn't help with the sudo question, unless you opt to never sudo in the jail at all. Which might or might not be doable but...

No, these problems for me are very consistent and very specific to two entities. Everything else works like clockwork. So I am sure this is not "shit happens" type of a thing. Cookie containerization wasn't the issue, it seems. I'm now gonna...

Say you have a dedicated machine to run risky applications, e.g. Chinese LLMs. Would you make sudo for that machine passwordless or passwordy? Passwordy obviously has the advantage of delaying an attacker when they want to do system changes...

I'd sooner have everyone with LibreOffice to a shared FTP NAS drive :p I'd use Collabora (iirc their Android app was offered as a fork of LO before LO had a reader app). Does NextCloud offer anything that can't be done with separate apps?

I used to initiate scans from printer webUI. Never faxed, but my printer had a touchscreen to presumably do it from there. I only ever used CUPS since like 2016 and took it for granted allowing easy printing to printers on wifi with IPP. On...