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Are you able to monitor RAM/swap etc. at the time of failures? Maybe when it fails there's some extra pressure on RAM/memory, and then when it works later that pressure has eased off enough for the allocation to succeed. Grasping at straws but...

Thanks for your reply, I really appreciate it! I think you're on right track, I have tried to check, but haven't found anything yet (knowledge somewhat limited), still keep looking 👀 # vmstat -m | grep -E 'pf|Size' Type Use Memory Req Size(s)...

i propose that it be called the Slop Trough

It's all smoke and mirrors that indicates symptoms of a much larger problem: the quest to relegate programmers to being interchangeable mindless cogs that can be assigned any task that comes along in a CI pipeline and expect it to be done in the...

It was Mencken who wrote “No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people”. Clearly an elitist! “Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.” -- Mark...

It has to be a program that does something useful enough to be a base executable. :-/

That might be off topic as it's not a FreeBSD issue directly. And it wouldn't be a forum. This whole place is a forum

That might be off topic as it's not a FreeBSD issue directly. And it wouldn't be a forum. This whole place is a forum

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info

Following your examples I created a USB stick but can't boot from it. Does it require UEFI to boot because I'm trying it on a very old machine. There is no error msg when I'm trying to boot although nothing at all appears on screen. If I try to...

The AI discussion is seeping into most forums. It does seem like a major topic of interest to many, to warrant its own forum. Thanks!

Are you sure this is accurate? Is it a law with a chance of being passed? Something one party wants and the other agrees to? Or is it a law up for debate? Seems if this was about to be Federal law it would be publicized far more widely and...

I think this has the potential to compensate for its own inefficient p2p network and outperform commercial AI services. It only needs a lot more users than those. It also must be somehow secured against automated mass scraping of big data...

yes - and those services can be local, like llama.cpp or ollama. Hmm, I see that misc/nanocoder is in ports.

Next step may be to unify and share the 'learned' data accross a network like bittorrent and use a referencing system to find required network sources fast because the network is made of distant machines.

I believe the OP, in the first post (from 2017) had a USB printer. My own advice for network printers is on my page https://srobb.net/cliscanprint.html

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It needs existing AI services, right? Pretty much donate everything you create using AI to all configured servers... I would donate and might contribute to a decentral construction that doesn't need any company to function and still is useable...

It was Mencken who wrote “No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people”. Clearly an elitist! “Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.” -- Mark...

"Can you borrow me..." has nothing to do with non native speakers, it's just poor grammar. It's very common in the UK and probably is just part of the general decline in vocabulary from falling education standards. Other notable examples are...

I just tried that with FF and it reloaded this page and other tabs no problem (even unexpectedly kept me logged-in when I set cookies to clear on exit)

Doesn't have to be a crash, it can be also just shutting down the machine while the browser is open.

Has anyone made opencode (or similar tool) run on FreeBSD using local LLMs?

Does Chrome crash frequently enough for that to be reasonable? It seems like if there was a tab that caused the crash, immediately reloading it wouldn't be a good idea. I force HW acceleration on Firefox and haven't seen it crash randomly in...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. I’m very grateful that the FreeBSD Foundation sponsored my trip to AsiaBSDCon 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan. The conference ran from March 19 through 22, with the first two days dedicated to the...

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Over the winter nights i became an amateur horologist. Got some old mechanical watches from the director while house clearing. 1950's broken Roamer, Rotary & a 1910 pattern trench watch which works perfectly after a clean & service. Trying to...

Never used 9p, but you typically only have to do this once, when you first mount it. It should 'stick'. You probably don't need the ACL too. You could simply chgrp -R media-ro /main/media on the host, then make sure the group has 'rx'...

Thank you for the recommendations. I am familiar with these companies, but I live about 2,000 km away from them. I owned one long ago before I gifted it to my sister. Their stock nibs are not on par with Kanwrite or Parker, but the eyedropper...

Those are expensive

A nice video about Indian handmade fountain pens: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0hJE0D7Xgw - part 2 is also good. If you are anywhere near Hyderabad or Rajahmundry you can check out these pen companies!

Session Buddy extension.

Session Buddy extention

Yes and no. Assuming this works the same as any other mounted filesystem, yes for the files and directories within, but no for the mountpoint itself on the client.

`lsblk` from ports seems most suitable and easy to parse the output of.

At a local Trader Joe's where I frequently go (hrm, sounds like a poem), they often have this one on. I'm putting a link to the official video, which has Dr. House (Hugh Laurie, looking as he did in Blackadder) and John Malkovich in it. View...

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So, notice anything about those permissions? Only root (and members of the root group) can access it. On that guest side, chgrp testuser /media9p and chmod g+rx /media9p (you didn't want to write there right?)

"will you borrow me" is somewhat informal in English, but it's something that I've personally said and I've heard other people saying it. I think the origin has to do with the way that the verb works. I can't speak to Swedish, but IIRC, German...

Session Buddy extension.

Looks like you did hit 293273, which implies that you still have mesa-devel on the i386 side (with pkg32.sh) installed. While here: This is counterproductive because DXVK translates OpenGL to Vulkan, so it’s obvious that nothing will work...

Hello all, I want to share that it is possible to enjoy Widevine protect content on Firefox (possibly derivatives also) in addition to what is possible currently with chromium. This will be L3 decode (i.e. software) but in any case it's better...

Funny, but sad, because it borders on truth. https://ifunny.co/picture/how-to-sneak-candy-into-an-american-movie-theater-VHhkr8w57[/U

When Chrome doesn't shut down properly it comes up with a prompt to restore pages. Apparently you can avoid this using a setting:- On startup -> Continue where you left off I have this setting but still need to select Restore. Is there any...

On the guest, what does ls -dl /media9p show (after you mounted the 9p filesystem there)? It's probably not the permissions on the host side, but on your VM side.

For sh: [ -b /dev/<dev> ] && echo "block device" [ -c /dev/<dev> ] && echo "character device"

Well... there are 2 answers to that for me. First is simple & obvious: "because it gets the job done", the power to serve is strong within this one. But my personal reasons... go a bit deeper. To me, personally (!), FreeBSD is the true...

I have come across many USB sticks which are not partitioned so gpart is not a great way of checking for their presence.

Go to single user mode and try to fix it would be an idea.

I know the issue already got marked as solved, but... When you're in doubt about the building process then all you have to do is run more /usr/src/Makefile: One of the many cool perks of FreeBSD's documentation process I think, don't bother to...