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Nice. That is shaping up quite well. I particularly like their policies of not spraying 3rd party programs all over the UNIX filesystem. Weirdly I was never into the Mac OS X interface, I found it a bit clunky but at this point, anything from...

Well, proprietary user interfaces have been steadily enshitificated for about a decade now. I think this is because UI peaked around 2009, but product managers and UI designers still gotta make a living. They've been pushing net-negative changes...

Hahaha

Well, proprietary user interfaces have been steadily enshitificated for about a decade now. I think this is because UI peaked around 2009, but product managers and UI designers still gotta make a living. They've been pushing net-negative changes...

Indeed, Bluetooth and Nvidia support are conscious choices. Some examples where OpenBSD's efforts have yielded better results include Wifi on Raspberry Pi 3 (bwfm(4)) and support for recent Intel wifi (i.e iwx(4)) before FreeBSD got their Linux...

Indeed, Bluetooth and Nvidia support are conscious choices. Some examples where OpenBSD's efforts have yielded better results include Wifi on Raspberry Pi 3 (bwfm(4)) and support for recent Intel wifi (i.e iwx(4)) before FreeBSD got their Linux...

Assuming (and as the joke goes, when you assume, you make an ass of you and me), that Chinese input works similarly to Japanese input, there are several Wayland window managers that use it. I've used Japanese (with fcitx5) in labwc, sway, and...

It shall not:

Yes, IIRC, it came up in 2010 and HAL stands for Heuristic ALgorithmics, and definitely not to be one letter before IBM. So, presumably, what it was doing was more of an identifying what sort of a problem it was dealing with and then using a set...

What I mean is that the actual hardware requirements to make a PC start up is less than 1% of the constructs that modern boards have. It needs the initial data in memory, that's it. Software can do the rest. Everything that can be changed is...

What version? And when, exactly, does this option appear? "During installation" is a bit broad.

It was an imulsive reply. For PC's, I think most of it is unnecessary. The industry wants software to be hardware to keep control above the operator. After hardware POST, what's needed more of hard static procedures than copying a blob of...

It won't. It's a minor version change, ABI is kept stable across the entire major branch. So it's not a problem to run an application that was built on/for 14.0 on 14.4.

Unfortunately, compared to writing wifi drivers, people think UI and usability is "easy" because they believe they understand it based on their own personal experiences and biases. Technically drawing glorified boxes is easy, so it opens the...

And maybe why GUI toolkits are relatively limited while desktop environments / window managers / compositors are much more, too.

Didn't it come from Baron von Munchausen, bootstrappinhg himself out of a well?

Should only happen with a major version upgrade. The ABI is only allowed to change between major versions. This ABI is the reason you need to recompile your applications, they need to be linked to the "new" libc for example.

Unfortunately, compared to writing wifi drivers, people think UI and usability is "easy" because they believe they understand it based on their own personal experiences and biases. Technically drawing glorified boxes is easy, so it opens the...

Yes, no, a bit. Depends on the context really (which point of view, the computer or the OS). Boot process from the system's point of view, the system powering on, do its POST, find attached disks, and depending on the type of boot (UEFI/BIOS) it...

Nope. Your running and installed kernel are both p3, your userland is p4. The order of the output is always the same regardless of the order of the options. If several of the above options are specified, freebsd-version will print the...

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...