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Or directly use shell patterns without -x option (if resolvable in a unique port name) pkg info -l 'python*' this is ambiguous, maybe shows installed files for more than one package (if llvm19 and llvm20 are installed) pkg info -l 'llvm*'

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

It takes a while to find a local LLM to "fit" you. I use a dense variant of Qwen. It competes well with online LLMs. Of course it can't do live web search and it has a hard cutoff date for the data inside. And you need some serious computing...

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!

Too hulking. Redundant, because we already are under FreeBSD What about: AI, LLM & ML And I want to repeat my wish for explicite prohibition of any AI related stuff in the other forums (except Off-Topic, maybe.)

I vote for this because many AI related discussions are a form of off-topic or not completely specific to FreeBSD management/usage. At the same time, it is a trending argument that can affect the interaction with an OS, its user base, security...

Any suggestions for the forum's title? Will probably add this in the "Server and Network" category but need a short and clear title, it's quite a broad topic. And yes, this won't be a section for "AI told me this, is that correct" type of...

Slop copy and pasting shouldn't be allowed in a dedicated AI subforum either. We have serious business to discuss.

Hmm... still life?

Just don't move anything or "tidy it up" for me, because I know where everything is!

ADHD organization skills 😁

It should be lumped there because it's for how to technically run games on FreeBSD but if you have a separate games sub-forum then it will be all about playing games and little to do with FreeBSD which is what this forum is about.

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.

I think bakul means something like there already is with "System Hardware", "Embedded", or "Off-Topic", etc. which are also called forums. Apart from not knowing if this would open pandoras box - at the end, the Administrators, Moderators and...

It's a reasonable request, however, this is going to run into a lot of opposition. Those who all out hate AI are going to have to deal with it one way or another. I rather see gaming get its own forum first, not just lumped into multimedia. It...

What I never read anywhere is what a single computer running a local "AI" service can achieve with some open source/public domain LLM blob that sets the initial "intelligence". Does it take complicated English questions?

Hi FreeBSD friends Long story short. My old harddrive was dying and I made a clean install (with zroot) on a new harddrive and copied all the configuration from the dying drive. Everything seems to work great. But I have a problem with my gitlab...

HPFS predates NTFS and AFAIK NTFS was designed around NTFS. IBM and Miicrosoft jointly developed HPFS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Letwin

I doubt whether file recognises hpfs. This from a disk that actually has OS/2 installed and I can boot from it. => 63 625142385 da0 MBR (298G) 63 15057 2 !10 [active] (7.4M) 15120 4097520 3 !23...

You type media.cubeb.backend in the url and press + button and string and set it the value to the soundserver you use.

There is no useless program to write as long as it passes lint.

Yes, much of my early C programming progress is rooted in useless programs.

Just use FreeBSD before 3.0. The a.out binaries were incredibly much smaller than the later ELF stuff.

A good OS will not let RAM go unused. The idle shot doesn't allow a conclusion that RAM is wasted.

I didn't use network sinks yet. But I would answer the piprewire versus pulseaudio question with no wasting time on PA anymore. PW is utterly superior.

Well, then file -s it. What are you waiting for?

When I came to Unix my programming ability was ahead of my ability to appreciate the existing tools and libraries. I wrote many a naive replacement for existing stuff, usually crippled versions.

I'm annoyed by the duplicate ls execution for no reason. That had to be put in a var first. 😆

I suppose it's some humour. If it's not, it's a non-sense linux bashing. We don't need this.

Clutter in stasis or clutter in motion? Inquiring minds want to know.

This script keeps the amount of /dev/ada* devices on a computer visible from far away, #!/usr/local/bin/bash while [ : ] do clear (ls /dev/ada? /dev/ada?? 2>/dev/null | sort -V ) | while read l do echo "$l" done figlet "$(ls...

Some details - HPFS is not NTFS, no OS/2 or win32 Windows have NTFS root support. The Jan 1998 dating of the laptop aligns with 4GB HDD size, but it is a possibility Windows 2000 or NT4 have been installed at some point. balanga as far as I can...

ADHD organization skills 😁

If you zoom in, you can glimpse the body of a strangled sysadmin :)

Consider a job step that created a file for a subsequent step or a step that deleted a file when the previous step returned a non-zero return code. The step still had to run a program in order to let the system handle file disposition in those...

Trying to find anything but I only seem to have scripts that are theoretically useful or garbage fragments..

Gasp. That's precisely it. There's lots of beautiful hiking and trails in the US, and it's super nice - but also different in nature (from what I gather from pictures).

It's been a while ago, and I don't quite remember the details anymore. But I've also had a few issues when using the RC structure for "firewall control". pf_reload() { echo "Reloading pf rules." pf_resync } pf_resync() {...

First... to my defense (well, sorta... :-/) this happened in the weekend and I had a few drinks? (uh oh....). So... PostgreSQL isn't just a database server to me, it's a way of life when it comes to storing/processing (bulk?) data from the...

service pf reload /var/log/ddosip.log 2>&;1 | tee -a /var/log/ddosip.log Can you check by changing this command to another, without reloading all rules with pfctl -t ddos -T replace -f /usr/local/etc/pf.ddos.list or with flushing table before...

Yes i could try that in a script instead. I tried them manually as a quick test right now, this is what I got: # pfctl -t ddos -T replace -f /usr/local/etc/pf.ddos.list 3 addresses added. # pfctl -t ddos -T flush 756328 addresses deleted. #...

To contrast with the Useful scripts thread, this is for sharing your most pointless stuff. I'll start: This C program literally just allocates exactly 128 bytes of memory to write a random value to it. It then proceeds to only print where the...

Sometimes you're just trying to get something to work, not make it look pretty.

hey, it's installed as /bin/true on all unix systems and we find use for it occasionally: while true for one.

Does anyone use Ventoy's special boot menu? In case you don't know you can set up your own boot menu which comes up first if you have one. You can access it using F6:ExMenu. I use it extensively for booting various versions of FreeBSD and Linux...

Yes, or you uninstall it and use stable mesa for that part.

KDE,

I pressed prtscr, and the problem seems to have resolved, even Alt+Fn works now for all the ttys. Thank you.

Why doesn't your /tmp have the correct permissions? Is it a tmpfs? Forgot to add the mode=1777 in fstab?