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A disturbing theme in this thread is that lack of hardware support is a conscious choice. It most certainly is not. Hardware support requires component manufacturers to disclose their product control API, which most do not, unless licensee is...

Indeed. To clarify, the conscious choice is not to specifically lack certain hardware support; but instead to not compromise the platform by bending over backwards for ridiculous hardware vendors. Not when there is so much choice of better...

I had an original Mac (the beige box with the 9inch B&W screen) then a couple iterations of macOS. The biggest draw was consistency. Applications were consistent. Window decorations, open/close/minimize etc. Up through I think the 2009...

In lieu of OpenCode, I will say that emacs with gptel + gptel-agent works pretty well and can connect to basically any LLM API and handle tool calling, etc. It's going to be significantly more lightweight too. There are some things I like better...

What will I do if KDE no longer supports FreeBSD, if ever? Nothing, because I don't use it. If I were using it, I would simply use one of more than a dozen other desktop environment.

Not a very useful discussion, in my mind. With all electronics, I expect the bathtub curve: High failure rate in infancy that rapidly drops off Flat, very low failure rate for the useful life of a system/component Increasing failure rate towards...

What will I do if KDE no longer supports FreeBSD, if ever? Nothing, because I don't use it. If I were using it, I would simply use one of more than a dozen other desktop environment.

The Network Autotuner was conceived as a mechanism for dynamic adjustment of kernel networking parameters in real time, particularly under high network load conditions where static sysctl values are insufficient. Primary purpose: • Monitor live...

This is just another doom thread based on a premise that to my knowledge is not true. Can you link to a statement where KDE says they will not support FreeBSD anymore? (and not their stupid display manager that is systemd integrated, I don't use...

I think you mean it needs root to build. All desktops need root to install.

Maybe here? https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/gershwin-desktop-environments.101213/

I installed mail/hydroxide but it does not work: sudo service hydroxide oneinit Enter mail account id:fred@proton.me Password: 2026/05/07 16:34:27 request failed: POST https://mail.proton.me/api/auth: [9001] For security reasons, please complete...

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...

I don't know much about the general UI on macOS, I only use the window manager. And that one sucks.

I'm also having the issue

Security updates have been merged to the quarterly branch, but the builds there haven't been done yet.

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...

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...

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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...

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