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Part II => Putting things to some real use Hi gang, Well, I promised that I was going to do a follow up, and now seems like a good time as any. Today we're going to dive more into Python and we'll take a closer look at how we can use it to "do"...

I am using irc/irssi but you can find more on the forum if you search... https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/irc-newbie-here.101647/#post-743960

There is other interesting meager program in packages by the same author of pick: yank. It allows to select fields according to a regexp. I made for example the following script file pssel containing: ps | yank -g '^[0-9]+' -- xargs $* Then, for...

If you are like me I prefer 5GHz wireless. Look at RALink based RT3572 dongles if you want 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. Same driver. They are usually bigger. Some even accommodate dual antenna jacks.

I wanted to say something similar. Irc is for chat, it is not web forum, not USENET, not a mailing list. To enter a group to react after more than 10 seconds is misuse of irc. What I lament is the decline of USENET.

scottro Yeah. That never happens here. 😁

Looks like it was down for some time. Now downloading again. Does a trusted page with most distfiles still exist? It used to, with pgp-keys but I can't find it anymore. Problem repeating now: fetch...

Anti-corporation is too broad to mean something. I have fundamental problems with software not improving things but limiting the user to create a market. It's why everybody uses apps on phones. A smartphone is a computer. Apps are not computer...

scottro Yeah. That never happens here. 😁

While building a large collection of ports, what do I do about missing distfiles? I was missing libdvdcss-1.5, dependency of Imlib2. Found it somewhere online. Unsafe but it compiles. Now the parent port, also no working distfile url: =>...

I'm not sure what is meant by "vanilla command", the term is rather imprecise. The term "legacy" is clearer. However, it may mean different things to different people. I wouldn't call vermaden's sysutils/beadm legacy. bectl was originally...

I don't know my kids computers all run FreeBSD. I switched everything over 3 years ago last month. I think it's a relative scenario. My kids are growing up with experience using a solid system that is easy to learn and read about.

hruodr that seems to be true. blackbird9 I also used bitchx and xchat--would I have been using them on Windows? It seems to me I did. I remember, I'm going to say early 2000's when we all sorta hung out on irc. There were people in #freebsd--I...

If the delay between ports and packages worries you do what I do and build them yourself with ports-mgmt/poudriere. Once set up it automates everything and can be run from a cron job. I have a VM which builds packages I use on my server every...

irccloud subscription.

irc is not anymore what was some decades ago. People join, but do nothing, ~300 such people is like ~0. We can write: 300~0

#freebsd at irc.libera.chat currently has ~300 people in there.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/electronics :cool:

I think it's too complicated to pull new users, but Discord is worse. What are they doing with te pop-up nonsense? I have to click 3 things away to see who's online.

Fluxbox, Tint2 & Co

play game , watch video ,chatting and bulabulabula ... any average user will do these same things. if you think i am not a average user, ok , i am A hobbyist. i always to test a OS can do or can not do something. when the evil capital shoot any...

Hey, I use FreeBSD to play video games. You don't have to have windows to do that. 😁. Actually games have improved a lot with the latest wine.

I got couple of them installed but can't find active chatrooms. Is there any big FreeBSD IRC channel or is everyone already at discord?

Well .. really that depends on YOU :cool:. We can't read minds and figure out "what you want to do" and conversely what "you don't want to do" with an operating system. The expectations of what you CAN do with (any) computer operating system...

+1 for irssi Clean, simple and above all, works great with tmux+ssh, so you can leave it running on a server rather than requiring a bouncer.

Then don't use them. Why would you expect ee to handle PDFs? I didn't even know it did. This is a mom and pop user mentality. A Windows gamer mentality. If you want games and user friendly simple things, use Windows. FreeBSD is not for you. To...

Newly released by the Pentagon: Beastie discovers the monolith on Phobos! View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGv0vgZZrOI

Which IRC client do you use?

For regular irc I use irssi. However, to use an irc client with slack, as I need slack at work, I use weechat as it's pretty easy to do with the weeslack plugin. (For those interested, I have a page at https://srobb.net/slackircclient.html). I...

fzf is quite bloated, but there is a meager package pick-4.0.0_1 that I just installed tested a little. It reads from stdin white space separated options, offers a ncurses menu, throws the selection to stdout. You can do thinks like find ...

ethernet, not wifi. But still cool.

Well yes, I think we all agree the discussion about theft v infringement is a legal technicality, but reducing the benefit of ownership doesn't take the ownership away. In the case of FOSS the benefit of ownership is minimal since copying is...

Base ntpd will suit your use case just fine. Your simply trying to make sure your "on time" and base ntpd will do that.

Not sure why BSD is included in the Distrowatch ranking. I thought it was mainly for Linux. Perhaps any free operating system available for download could be included. Just idle curiosity. OS Rank Hits Per Day FreeBSD 28 353 GhostBSD 37...

Technically yes, but the line gets to be a bit fuzzy with this sort of thing, recreating somebody else's work using an AI that trained on it has the effect of taking the benefit of ownership away. But, whether it's infringement or theft, anybody...

I tested the ethernet now, but alas, while the bcm2712_pcie module loads, the rp1_eth module does not. Created issue 4. details root@devpi5:~ # kldload /home/tingo/work/projects/FreeBSD/FreeBSD15-RPi5-modules/bcm2712_pcie.ko root@devpi5:~ #...

Part II => Putting things to some real use Hi gang, Well, I promised that I was going to do a follow up, and now seems like a good time as any. Today we're going to dive more into Python and we'll take a closer look at how we can use it to "do"...

ethernet, not wifi. But still cool.

ok, tested the updated fan control now tingo@devpi5:~/work/projects/FreeBSD/FreeBSD15-RPi5-modules $ sudo sysctl hw.rpi5.fan.temp0=45000 hw.rpi5.fan.temp0: 50000 -> 45000 tingo@devpi5:~/work/projects/FreeBSD/FreeBSD15-RPi5-modules $ sysctl...

Of course, after posting, I figured it out. I'd accidentally commented out the bar section. Once I uncommented that, I saw resize as expected. Again I want to thank bsdcode because if you hadn't mentioned it I probably would have just shrugged...

Ok, I think I'll mark this solved. When I use the default configuration, I see the resize string. So, it's something in my config, which answers my question of whether it's FreeBSD or me. It is definitely more important to have my custom...

Does git needs any configuration as gitup? I will use just for ports. I saw that portsnap is still in ports...anyone using it still? Thank you. I did switch to GIT and it works without problems.

No it just said now entering mode resize. But the fact that it's working for you lets me know that it's either an oddity on my install, or the way I configured it. I will try, using the default config.

I use x11-wm/i3 almost exclusively on FreeBSD since many years now. I never experienced your descripted problem, the "resize" string is always shown when I switch to the resize mode (I use the default keybinding $mod+r). Do you see anything...

I stumbled upon this topic while watching Distrowatch. I was surprised to see how highly ranked and stable FreeBSD is over time. I couldn't resist making a graph :-D

Well, I meant people where the only reason they have a computer at all is to play games.

Switching from git.freebsd.org to github.com (as mentioned in the gitup issue) fixes the problem, so I’ll do this until the root cause is found and fixed. I’m certainly not replacing gitup with git. I like gitup specifically because it’s small...

This is also happening to me, starting today. For the benefit of anyone else who finds this thread: The OP of the thread in the freebsd-hackers mailing list that nxjoseph@ linked to (above) posted a followup message, saying that they opened bug...

Ilovehotdog is, obviously, able to do all those things. The question was whether or not FreeBSD would be the OS that provided an out of the box experience, that allowed the plain john/jane user (non tech, non hobbyist, etc) to do all of those...

What compression type do you recommend for a ZFS dataset that will contain files encrypted with PEFS or another encryption method? Does compression provide any practical benefit in this case, or is it better to disable it entirely?