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I think I understand the motivations for this and similar bills now: Protect the social media giants from liability: Shift the responsibility for age verification to the OS providers. Now families get to sue them when Timmy sees something gross...

You're referring to this disclaimer? That's been the case for a long time for all cryptographic materials coming out of the US. Such materials were initially classified as military equipment. Then, for decades, they were regulated as dual-use...

Take notes somewhere! I have a wiki and when starting out with 14.1 I copied an older Linux set-up's notes and changed it as I went. Kept doing it for later FreeBSD 14 releases, 15, even CURRENT, and adapted the desktop notes for server...

Usually SSL (or other crypto) problems are an indication that the time on your local machine is wrong. What does date say?

Waydroid iirc had something easy to import Play Store/etc. LineageOS is default-no Google apps and they need flashed separately. microG could also be integrated into ROMs instead of Google apps. I built LineageOS from source and flashed a...

AOSP doesn't contain the "Google Play" components. I don't know if you can download and sideload them on AOSP.

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...

A little challenge is to boot the installer memstick and install FreeBSD to another memstiick. At the start it will be slow because all system software is on USB storage but you can steal a piece of the existing OS partition and move a lot to it...

Introducing a queen or king of the Borg went against what the Borg were introduced to be in TNG, though. The whole point is that they don't have a head huncho and are self-organizing.

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.

Waydroid iirc had something easy to import Play Store/etc. LineageOS is default-no Google apps and they need flashed separately. microG could also be integrated into ROMs instead of Google apps. I built LineageOS from source and flashed a...

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AOSP doesn't contain the "Google Play" components. I don't know if you can download and sideload them on AOSP.

Hello, I've been using Linux and BSD since the early 2000s. I would really like to thank the entire FreeBSD 15 team for delivering such a high-quality desktop system. I run FreeBSD 15 with Wayland (Plasma), and it absolutely screams. There is no...

:rolleyes: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/americas/ai-chatbots-help-teen-test-users-plan-violence-tests-intl-invs While source-checking stumbled on another as-recent...

USB 2 is not fast enough for the root filesystem. Are you sure the internal port is USB 2?

Come to think of it, NetBSD has in its terms that it can't be used in a few countries. You can see it if you ftp to its website from the console. There's another BSD license which doesn't allow code exported from the US (or maybe it was from the...

Laptop next to me, installing the 15. The point is that I really want to learn, but also want control. I get very reactive with some "reporting"... I use Manjaro as main driver, just because of the control. And...I hatched somewhere in Belgium 😉

I'm not quite sure how to do that.

I'd disagree. You're using the meaning in a different way. However, if it makes you think of native people tribes, feel free to suggest a better word, since, if you do think of it that way, I can certainly see why you'd think it a poor choice...

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...

my condolences

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 😅)