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There's no actual question or issue to solve in this thread. So it's fine in "offtopic". Other than that, yes, we mods/admins can and will move threads.

Indeed, but again, people are happy to learn how to scroll up on a web browser. Why not a terminal window? If someone allows messages to scroll off the screen before reading them (and choose not to use a pager or any of the many solutions to...

Indeed, but again, people are happy to learn how to scroll up on a web browser. Why not a terminal window? If someone allows messages to scroll off the screen before reading them (and choose not to use a pager or any of the many solutions to...

Any way to make devel/git behave like net/gitup?

OK, so I got a brand new pair of beyerdynamic DT 990's and have been burning in the Aune dac with 24-hour a day playing the lofi live stream. It's gotten really nice now, I'm pretty sure the one I have doesn't have fake op-amps. I'm going to...

A USB live system that I made is 451 MB. It's a compressed mfsroot-based system with a GENERIC 15 kernel and world. It's 1900 with a minimal Xorg. To make it, you have to create a bootable USB image and add only the base system to it. My...

To get rid of anything related, we have to prohibit semiconductor-containing electronics. Silicium and germanium must be illegal as well as research into binary logic. I will go underground with the people creating a mechanical computer of gears...

Support for wireless network cards has certainly been lacking, that's true. Drivers for hardware don't appear out of thin air though, those drivers need to be coded. And the manufactures of those chipsets often don't help at all. No datasheets...

That's an interesting observation.

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To get rid of anything related, we have to prohibit semiconductor-containing electronics. Silicium and germanium must be illegal as well as research into binary logic. I will go underground with the people creating a mechanical computer of gears...

Well, when I assembled the desktop that I'm now using, back in 2019 or so, I was living in a warmer climate, so I wanted to do as much as I could to prevent heat build up inside the case. So, before I stuffed my new motherboard inside the case...

kent_dorfman766 And you will need to buy a license to have a web server, email and web site.

Here is what I have tried:- NFS Server:- /etc/rc.conf :- nfs_server_enable="YES" nfsv4_server_enable="YES" /etc/exports :- V4: /var/db/backup / -mapall="root" mkdir /var/db/backup zfs create -o mountpoint /var/db/backup zroot/backup zfs...

Never took time to try it out. Is it still worth it? Looking at the system requirements of 32MB RAM and 300MB space, that's like Win98. Running native or in a vm would barely make a difference...

It does have a graphical installer! Its default interface is graphical as well. And it caters to new users by being far simpler. In many ways it is better than unix but because it is not unix it has hardly any 3rd party apps. And its C is...

Hello, I'm a novice setting up FreeBSD 15.0 on an old ThinkPad to use as a learning tool. Outside of video arcades and NES, I started with an Apple IIe, moved to an Amiga 1000, and then got into PCs once I could afford a 486. I've used Windows...

A little bit of peeking too.

I worked with a guy who took a picture off the wall to build a computer on. He was in a hurry.

There were times when I wished I just put all my components onto a board without a case. All parts are easily accessible when you want to swap things around or experiment. It's just inconvenient most of the time and takes up too much space in an...

Why do you think this response is reminiscent of Eliza?

This is the misunderstanding. FreeBSD will never be built to be "easy" for "ordinary desktop users". FreeBSD is an OS for technical people through and through. It can be an optimal desktop for them. For anyone else, it is not. Yes and they are...

Symptom of bad quality software. Whoever wrote the software (that requires special terminals) didn't think about requirements, usability, integration. They wanted to quickly solve their own problem (installing software on a Mac, using an AI to...

Yeah, or be functional without a mouse. The up arrow key going to the line above rather than recalling the last command is infuriating but as per their design goals, they certainly won't be making that change just for my definition of...

Next up: Why doesn't Plan9 cater to new users and have a graphical installer?!!!

Next up: Why doesn't Plan9 cater to new users and have a graphical installer?!!!

Using a custom User-Agent header did not work. I used SirDice's suggestion and changed the code to download the file from github mirror. After over 1000 tests it hasn't failed once using github. I will open a ticket and see if it gets accepted.

Just in case someone tries searching for tiled wayland manager, fcitx, I'll add that sway window manager also works flawlessly with fcitx. Seems like dwl is the only one I've tried that doesn't. Sway is almost a Wayland clone of iw3.

Just like on Windows: Please Read the whole EULA before clicking Accept

Then the correct solution (as that thread mentions) is to then fall back to a pager (i.e less(1)) or terminal multiplexor (i.e tmux(1)) or redirect to a file (i.e tee(1)). UNIX offers literally so many options to read console messages that citing...

I know how my car works, I can even do some basic maintenance on it. But if there's something wrong with it I take it to dealership and have a professional take a look. The "casual" user is non-technical, I dare say the majority of computer...

If FreeBSD dismisses X11 (and go wayland with KDE), I will dismiss FreeBSD.

That was it. Installed urwfonts. Thanks!

I have mango running on 15.1-BETA1 cp /usr/local/etc/mango/config.conf.sample ~/.config/mango/config.conf The bindings for exit and foot are: bind=SUPER,m,quit bind=ALT,Return,spawn,foot SUPER-m quits mango but Alt-Return does nothing which...

I think I'm maintaining old permission defaults in a custom version.

Likely it was in the older user-mode display drivers that Xorg used to use. Xorg was also setuid so could access the device before dropping privileges.

That doesn't work without the video group? What's the given reason? glxgears work. Is it only about the closed source driver and openGL has no problems?

Indeed. Luckily this is a FreeBSD forum so assuming using FreeBSD's console to scroll is fairly safe. ... and certainly not an excuse to ignore messages / warnings that come up when installing 3rd party software from ports.

A little bit of peeking too.

Looks about right from what I can see from a single picture. I would get a USB-C meter and two USB-A adapters, through, for future proofing.

The report seems to be missing some crucial information (like say what firewall is in use, and what the ruleset it), but my crystal ball is unusually clear of fog today, so I'll suggest you may want to try turning off checksum offloading on your...

If NAT wasn't working then the source address wouldn't get translated. It's the same address in both packet dumps, which means NAT works. You might want to turn off hardware checksumming though.

That's how I've always done it and how I likely always will do it. The only situation I can think of where I wouldn't, is if I don't want to leave myself in a position where I have to completely close X and log out when I'm AFK. I just don't like...

You are next.

no guarantee - the lost+found directory might have been there already.

Well that was fairly painless and it actually worked! I now pronounce you a GRUB expert ;)

pkg message usually goes off the screen and has to be reread with pkg info -D. I don't know where else you could put though. Maybe with some packages have a line like, PLEASE READ PKG MESSAGE before using. You can do this by running pkg info -D...

Or any other message. We regularly get people asking why something doesn't work, and post an error message that clearly states what is wrong and how to fix it.

There are some specialized Linux releases that can shrink, expand, shift, and change partition types: https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gparted

Or any other message. We regularly get people asking why something doesn't work, and post an error message that clearly states what is wrong and how to fix it.