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I'm an "audio man". Many dacs here. Scarlett 8i6 fails big time. [Routing problems,only windows drivers...] Scarlett 2 , ok , but no good quality. Hmmm, buzz. Must retry my Beringer U-Phoria UMC404HD. Not bad ...

Category tree, option for private link, key exchange system, encryption layers, groups, invitation-based entry. User validation or rejection could be a democratic system to rule out abuse.

So you only need one communication channel. Actually, more than one. One for kernel developers, one for port developers, one for users and that might be it. The rest are just idle chit chat and time wasters--like reddit.

We distinguish by the use of the same operating system...

There are too many social and other media sites

Is there any FreeBSD org community portal? I think that should be part of the future. Don't let it be mailing lists, forums and social media only. Some more encouraging communication channels would be an improvement. They could be a tiny bit...

And no matter where you go, there you are.

I don't have an answer, but I believe the urxvt main creator is often on irc (libera chat) on a channel called, (I think) #urxvt. I haven't been, but a friend used to go there frequently, and I believe they would respond reasonably quickly. I...

I don't have an answer, but I believe the urxvt main creator is often on irc (libera chat) on a channel called, (I think) #urxvt. I haven't been, but a friend used to go there frequently, and I believe they would respond reasonably quickly. I...

I just started using urxvtd and noticed that if I add it to my .xinitrc it spawns two processes, one as my user and another as root. Anyone know why? Seems like an unnecessary security risk.

:) I linked that 'cause it has the eye candy. There's plenty of source in other sub-projects: https://github.com/gershwin-desktop

Put in another hour, but finally—Chinese input is working, and I got the right sound channel set as the default. For now, I’ll just stick with GhostBSD and wait for FreeBSD 15.1, or 16, maybe even 17... whenever it actually starts to feel right...

A lot of people genuinely enjoy working on UI. They're often people with a different skill set to those who work on WiFi drivers anyway - in fact the ability to hack WiFi drivers plus access to suitable hardware for testing is very much a...

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...

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...