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Should we then have subforums for everything on FreshPorts? I believe we call them a subforum for a reason.

Fair enough, but then again... the FreeBSD foundation also followed suit, even though one could argue that this decision was a bit controversial considering the license (GPL3). I still recall (and support) the active movement to get rid of GCC in...

scfb is an Xorg driver, not a FreeBSD driver. It's one of two Xorg uses as a fallback if no other drivers can be detected. scfb uses the EFI framebuffer, which only exist if you UEFI boot. For old school BIOS boots Xorg will fallback on the vesa...

Because Linux told Linux users he uses it and so should they and then Linux and everything related switched to it cause Linus did. It's 90% of the reason. If Linus switched to Mercurial, everyone would be using Mercurial. If Linux switched to...

Good call, but I'd also suggest adding -x so that you don't have to type out the full name.

I see where you're coming from, but that's the whole point; something covered in "other ways", amongst which sticky bits but mostly mtree.

So many options. For example: "history > /tmp/foo", then use whatever tool you want on /tmp/foo. That tool might be grep, sed, and such. Or use an editor on /tmp/foo. If you like to work in an editor: most modern ones (like emacs and vim) have...

i don't think the Bourne shell has a feature like that, but ChatGPT will only confuse the matter further tbh.

Next time, think to use pkg info -l NameOfThePackage.

For future reference, you can use pkg info -l <pkgname> to see which files it contains. Sometimes the actual name of the executable isn't obvious. -l, --list-files Display all files installed by pkg-name. pkg-info

Actually I'm trying to do two different things which may be causing some confusion. 1. I'm trying to create a USB stick to apply the Middleton BIOS, which apparently can only be done using a 32-bit version of Windows which I don't have. 2. Get...

hstr was a program that I liked the look of but it didn't work with sh's history file. I didn't want to use bash, but now I have adopted zsh and have h as an alias for hstr an it works the way I want. And yes I am enjoying my unix trip, but...

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...

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

MidnightBSD has already decided to change their license to prohibit use in California due to the Digital Age Assurance Act. Will FreeBSD be doing the same? https://ostechnix.com/midnightbsd-excludes-california-digital-age-assurance-act/

I can definitely respect that, but at the same time you can also turn this around: if Git wasn't all that great then why did it gain such a massive userbase? Now, I obviously don't know how you guys are using Git but as a die-hard Git fan(boy?)...

What does pkg repos show?

Might be a good idea indeed. Really? So this doesn't exist? misc/claude-code, or misc/ollama, or misc/comfyui? Actually, every section is a forum on its own, this place is called "forums" (plural) for a reason.

Correct me if I'm wrong. This is a front-end for actual git.

I have always considered git to be a pain in the rear. We used it cause others used it and we had to interface to them. I think "them" used it for the same reason--other people used it, not because they liked it. If git was that good, why are...

What does Hiram give me when it is on USB? I can boot from the ISO using Ventoy if it is included on the first Ventoy partition. Can it provide additional functionality if it has RW access? I don't really know much about the program but use it...

What version are you running? So, 2 followed by 6 zeros fails, but 45 followed by 5 zeros works? That is a very strange one. Unless my math is failing 2,000,000 < 4,500,000 so that is very odd.

Yes that's right, but because pf couldn't reload, it couldn't set the new limit, I realize that now. But the problem persists - and I have no idea what to do. It might be on my end I'm afraid, since no one having/had these issues. I have found...

mkntfs creates an NTFS partition.

Does this patch need to be applied for things to work?

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...