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How much room do you have for expansion? Are you really limited to a single USB port, the 2xNVME and 2xSATA? My opinion, L2ARC/SLOG depends on the anticipated use patterns. I think SLOG is useful if you are doing lots of synchronous writes...

The board can take up to 2x16 = 32 GB DDR4 LPDIMM and in addition to the internal USB 2.0 it has 2xUSB 3.x on the outside. So I could plug in more external HDD. But AFAICS a simple mirror with 2x6 TB = 4 GB mirrored + (2 + 2) = 4 TB striped for...

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USB thumb drives as root filesystems always make us think "Rodime SSD". Cheap thumb drives use garbage flash that can't retain data. This is why our root pool is an NVMe mirror.

That looks like the bigger & newer version of what I have, a Terramaster F2-423. Like I already wrote this small box is oversized to serve me just as a NAS. IMHO semi-professional hardware AFAICT up to now. And I got it used for cheap money...

OnePlus 5. Old, but good.

Easiest way to get into it is to just install it. It should work with most laptops. Most Linux programs you use will be available on FreeBSD, so if you, for example, use the openbox desktop, you can use it on FreeBSD. As far as I know, there...

I was a huge fan, I mean I still am of the classic 66-01 series... Enterprise was cool, but kind of a mislead plot, and rushed ending. The final seasons were great. My favourite has to be DS9, TNG maybe has higher highs but DS9 is one of the...

Thanks. I feel old now. I had to carry 17" CRT around, use serial line to make a network to play Doom or an online text-mud. In that case, I recommend reading the book series around that. The Centauri trilogy has all the back story around Londo...

My way of handling that is to just queue a folder full of eps on random shuffle :cool: I like actively doing stuff (like games) and can't imagine sitting down and watching a new series in-order from ep1 start. I liked the random older Trek eps I...

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It's kind of silent. I think they chose to wait on the Brasil solution that still has to happen. Google is presenting Reddit as FreeBSD forums for the debate. Pathetic and already a red flag. That's no accident...

Making stuff easier for appeal is what had Wayland years-early, systemd, and Docker-reliance everywhere :p I have the opinion learning should be encouraged with self-interest; I wanted FreeBSD, looked into it, and had it on my server and laptop...

I would install a small FreeBSD on the nvme , create a NVME 32GB cache log and special device to use with ZFS on the NAS. Use this freebsd install to setup ISCI connection to NAS drive where I would create a ZPOOL to use previous cache log...

That's only for the base OS. It would be backuped on a 2nd USB stick, so if it breaks eventually, I can get the system up again quickly. Because I don't know in advance which data needs fast access and which doesn't? Or maybe the data labeled...

You might want to ask on more appropriate C++ specific forums than this freebsd one. A general advice for any language is to study carefully some existing programs in it and try to modify the. As well as write toy programs to explore specific...

The problem is then you shift the effort into searching for, maintaining and generally juggling bindings and other dependencies. And that is a worthless task. At least memory management is a transferrable skill. C++ is a gross language but one...

Why? If you are trying to solve one relatively simple problem, and don't know C++ yet, the most likely learning C++ and all its complexity is not an good way to go about it. These days, the only advantage of C++ over other programming languages...

This chart is helpful for determining which container to use in which situation.

"You can't just kick them out of an airlock. You know how low we are on supplies! First strip them down, THEN kick them out of an airlock!" And one of my favorite 10 seconds is that oh-so-not-sorry speech.

So you already experienced data loss and want to use USB sticks? Also: on such a small NAS you definitely won't need an L2ARC. And no, you also won't need a SLOG device. Depending on the use case (read: how fast the data is supposed to be...

You always need a console in case something goes wrong as it might. if you have a serial console you can install easily.

These laws have either been voted already or are about to. Good luck overturning them, especially when practically all tech corporations support this (and are probably behind it), when wacky activists support this (and are definitely behind it)...

cracked.com often has a collection of allegedly funny tweets. Most are mediocre, but this made me laugh. Tailgating me while I'm going 80 in a 45 zone is crazy. And those red and blue lights on top of your car look stupid.

I'm with you 99% ...except with this. These folks repair our roofs, drill our teeths, etc. pp. They have every right on earth to have access to good IT stuff. I really think it's a matter of attitude. Why is Linux so omnipresent in consumer...

Either use mfsBSD or mount a FreeBSD installer image (rw!), chroot into it and manually start sshd once (to generate the host ssh keys). Add your own public ssh key to /root/.ssh/known_hosts, edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config at will and then add...

After 2 SSD crashes within 4 years with data loss, I decided I want a NAS box. Found a neat used semi-professional SOHO NAS box, only 3-4 years old, and since it's fairly decent hardware I'll also use it as a general-purpose server at home. For...

cracked.com often has a collection of allegedly funny tweets. Most are mediocre, but this made me laugh. Tailgating me while I'm going 80 in a 45 zone is crazy. And those red and blue lights on top of your car look stupid.

FreeBSD on WSL might be cool! With Windows infrastructure I need something for php-posix (I'd prefer to not have systemd anywhere) Diablo II on UE5 looks interesting; I'd totally try that in VR (comment mentioned Barbarian whirlwind 😅)

cracked.com often has a collection of allegedly funny tweets. Most are mediocre, but this made me laugh. Tailgating me while I'm going 80 in a 45 zone is crazy. And those red and blue lights on top of your car look stupid.

There's some state California law that applies to operating systems. One of the desktop BSD's put it in their license that it can't be used in California, bc they didn't want to get fined over some regulations. It may not be the fault of...

Last I tried KDE did not allow a different window manager to run (with KDE). So you want to use a DE without a mouse?

An innocent newbie would not even attempt this, they would drag a monitor and keyboard to the closet. Or get an IPMI capable mainboard. How is a newbie going to figure out which IP address the thing lands on after USB boot?

cracked.com often has a collection of allegedly funny tweets. Most are mediocre, but this made me laugh. Tailgating me while I'm going 80 in a 45 zone is crazy. And those red and blue lights on top of your car look stupid.

Hey all, Finally, after a while, I'm ready to "pour" FreeBSD on a laptop and see if it can be a daily driver as a desktop. Reason is that I'm scared Systemd in Linux may end up doing/permitting age verification. Now...I am 62 yrs young, so any...

That's a really nice short poem! I still have hope that FBSD becomes even more welcoming to interested newbies. At least AFAICT there has been a lot of improvement concerning this in the last decade. Now I'm going to ask some Q how to set up my...

I say go for it. I'm growing tired of the "nay"'s and "no"'s. What is it to them?

We had a small computer shop in the family. I was waiting for my dad to finish what he was doing with ADI 17" monitor so I could get it back for my home PC. One day he comes in and says the monitor is free to go but he didn't pick it up from the...

We had a small computer shop in the family. I was waiting for my dad to finish what he was doing with ADI 17" monitor so I could get it back for my home PC. One day he comes in and says the monitor is free to go but he didn't pick it up from the...

That's not the point. The point is that some innocent newbie might want to install FBSD on his/her headless box. My intention was to provide an install medium that they can download to do that. I can create it, you can create it, but most...

Look at how a vagrant image is set up.

I've asked Claude to sum up runtime of new series, seems they shot more than 230 hours of "new" material in last 9 years. Compare that to 260 hours of Star Trek TV series shot between 1993 and 2001. About the same time span, about the same...

You mean bsdinstall? Hm yes, a minimal basic install where sshd runs as the only service after boot. Then we don't have to worry about breaking the install procedure, because it does not apply. IIUC that's exactly what mfsBSD does. So 1. I...

What's the objective when installing a new window manager into an existing DE? Do you want to replace the DE, or do you want to run the same DE with a different WM? The latter is possible only in a few DEs.

"We have an open door policy". "And an open airlock policy". The Star Trek guest star really stars in B5.

Any way to pull up the volume of this without walking to the amp? This is way below Youtube in the same browser and I don't see a volume button...

modules.d is directory for third party module configuration files. The files in this directory are automatically included in the httpd config if they name begins with a 3 digit number followed by "_" underscore and ending in ".conf" So if you...

Would it help if the operating system would buffer the incoming TCP-sockets of the individual processes automatically? In this case the program did this and it helped in the problem.

If you are a newcomer, I'd suggest making things as simple as possible and take things step by step. Getting a GUI up and running can be done using pkg install -y xorg lxde-meta and then start it from the command prompt using startx.

Thats's why I told you to use a proper install, configured with your user account, to boot the blind server. There is no need to use an installer image. sysinstall can be started from any installed system.