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I gotta redownload L4D; this VO for Tank is hilarious 🤣 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPC1PZEvUzo Just hearing that in the distance is more scary than the original voice 😆

As I said, I don't do that. Only for some specific subdirectories, not the entire .cache directory. Because the files are not created on the disk to start with. The advantage of keeping all of the browser's cache and history is, for me at least...

Joplin is an open source alternative to Evernote. It can be used with on-premise backend or with their own cloud storage. The killer-feature for me is the possibility to use Nextcloud as a backend (only as a backend, without a possibility to edit...

Exactly. And some packages can be really big. Personally I prefer to keep them permanently.

And in ~/.cache/pip.

vermaden has a post about this. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/uplift-privileges-on-freebsd/

First thing you need is a reliable "forever" storage. I use lots of extermal disks and memsticks with my entire system and all programs on it.. It's not massive. 500GB for everything is enough by far. The maintainance of such personal base is...

% du -s ~/.cache/* | sort -n [...] 133840 /home/cracauer/.cache/RawTherapee 291204 /home/cracauer/.cache/calibre 322308 /home/cracauer/.cache/pip 353200 /home/cracauer/.cache/wine 1327628 /home/cracauer/.cache/mozilla 3401344...

~/.config also carries programming language related data. Python's pip puts everything in there. If you lose it you have to re-download everything on every reboot. Common Lisp commonly stores the compiled files there, including for quicklisp...

Why? Aren't its config files under ~/.config/? ~/.cache/ is just that, cache, and not configuration, like ~/*, ~/.config/* and ~/.local/*. Bar some very specific cases, like cracauer@'s LLM example or gstreamer as you mentioned, things like...

Quick update: setaudit landed in the FreeBSD src tree in November, 2025 (dcb0790bad434ace7cf53259e7a9bcefbef1c69b).

Cups has security issues. We just don't know them yet. As far as lpr/lpd is concerned, des@ has not published anything specific, nor can he while most existing FreeBSD installations still run it.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHfakw6uz0&t=50s

How much change would you need to escape the copyright? The license? Over how many lines of code was this sco case fought?

"it's bad at things i know about but good at things i don't" is not really a compelling argument either

the objective fact is that it is a net negative for everyone involved. even the slopbot companies own research backs this. but everyone who argues that it's good argues from the stance that it makes them, personally, individually, feel more...

i don't think that means much when it comes from someone who aggressively forces chatbot output on people, while lying to them about its origin.

Please don't post AI slop. ~//.cache can contain data that, yes, is automatically re-created. But it can be very expensive, for example local LLMs can be stored there and you would have to re-download 100 GB per model. You don't want to do that...

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Original article here. Consider this when replying. New committer: Laurent Chardon (ports) Continue reading...

First at all, I know most of computer people are almost greedy for the very most newest version there is, no matter what, but for a beginner, especially the very start I wouldn't recommend to deal with some "still in development and not yet...

First thing you need is a reliable "forever" storage. I use lots of extermal disks and memsticks with my entire system and all programs on it.. It's not massive. 500GB for everything is enough by far. The maintainance of such personal base is...

First at all, I know most of computer people are almost greedy for the very most newest version there is, no matter what, but for a beginner, especially the very start I wouldn't recommend to deal with some "still in development and not yet...

Please don't post AI slop. ~//.cache can contain data that, yes, is automatically re-created. But it can be very expensive, for example local LLMs can be stored there and you would have to re-download 100 GB per model. You don't want to do that...

First at all, I know most of computer people are almost greedy for the very most newest version there is, no matter what, but for a beginner, especially the very start I wouldn't recommend to deal with some "still in development and not yet...

You can fidn something for yourself on scottro site: https://srobb.net/

You could call it a lossy encryption then. My argument in court would be that in face of a lack of creativity the result would by definition be a more or less good copy of the input, thus not a derived work.

/var/run is an example of something that doesn't have to survive reboots. Just make sure startup creates all the required directories in there.

Errr, that is very much meant to survive reboots.

Then we will begin seeing wonderful FreeBSD distributions.

Should be fine, but I think Wine might not need --old and mixer on volume buttons might be different syntax; I have 14.3 notes too :D

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuS6ZJrfZXQ

eh.. don't feed the troll?

I have 16.0-CURRENT notes for a Xfce set-up and volume/laptop brightness keys handled (mixer on key shortcuts, hint to combine internal/3.5mm, acpi load for backlight control)

Don't do either for the reasons you found. Either ask here or use the Handbook. 99% of the people who come here with installation issues didn't use the Handbook and didn't come here to ask questions. Use the search at the top right of this page...

? I think many of us have a local snapshot on our machines. No real need for a web link. Any specific part you recommend combing over? I'm not against the idea. Though I suspect it won't really change Dag's mind because they seem stuck in a rut...

As for the wifi card, what does pciconf -vl | grep -B3 network show exactly?

Sure, just boot the USB, at the welcome dialog enter "Live System", mount the file system, edit /<mount_point>/boot/loader.conf. Assuming menu guided installation: Example ZFS, for your case: # mkdir /tmp/zfs # zpool import -R /tmp/zfs zroot #...

Try without the "execute" ( "x" , setfacl) access permission on the directory from which the inheritance starts. I haven't tested it extensively, tested on a regular directory, and ZFS dataset mount point ( .../test in this example), no zfsprops...

Don't mount over system dirs like /lib or /bin. The existing files will be out of reach.

That sounds wrong on all levels.

Openbox still and FreeBSD 15-RELEASE is new...

My daily OS is windows 10. Vendors are forcing us all to upgrade to the latest and greatest, if we want to do book keeping, pay our taxes or use a current version of Firefox or ON1 photo editing apps. My un vetted opinion is they are receiving...

I think it's a fair question, but sorry...I'm a command line guy when it comes to system config tasks.

Maybe. Though I doubt anything so vulnerable was found in a disabled by default binary that they need to be discreet. Its more likely they don't have a strong enough rationale to even present to the OpenBSD guys for open discussion. "Old == Bad"...

Much of the relevant emails are linked to via the post here.

Now understanding what op wants to do (multi-homed server config) I think the "correct" way is with command line and conf files. It has been my experience that network config GUIs are more focused on convenience for single homed DHCP...