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MBR restricts number of partitions... GPT allows GPT labels... I.e. OK when bios does disk renumbering on different boots.

Why not?

dwm (starts with feh for a background), alacritty for terminal, tmux, weechat (for using slack at $JOB) vm-bhyve (err, for running vms), bash, mutt, librewolf and waterfox for browsers. I'm sure I'm overlooking some, but those are the ones I use...

You know, if you aren’t enclosing the here‑doc delimiter in 'quotation marks', command substitution (and variable expansion and some more) works.awesome_tui_program << __EOT__ 1 2 3 $(cat) __EOT__NB: The here‑doc is first fully parsed before...

Xterm, emacs, git, tmux, ssh w/mosh, chrome

Hi, Mandatory yearly screenshot, this time captured from my trusty old Thinkpad x220. Still a Thinkpad, still FreeBSD, still DWM. It just works ™️ .

Minimalist as always. Found some surreal close-ups of Jupiter from NASA JPL that I put on rotation.

Wow... looks like Van Gogh...

Fluxbox, Tint2 & Co

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

This is windowmaker on freebsd 14.4... resistance is futile...

kde plasma

xterm and tmux bar none

Explain this please with bit more detail. How are you turning the computer off and what does it mean to force? Are you saying that you cannot turn the computer off via pressing the power button once or issuing ACPI shutdown from console or sddm...

Just in case somebody accidentally stumbles upon that advice: this is bullshit.

Oh, yeah, right, I almost forgot about good old fifos :) Thank you very much for the hint!

I don't think there is a way to do this. Sounds like you could use fifo: mkfifo fifo cat < fifo & { echo 1 2 3; cat; } > fifo rm fifo

Hello! I'm developing a TUI program that is controlled via the commands entered into stdin. I want to automate the process of testing: I want to write a script that would start this program with some initial input data (to set the proper state...

Thanks, tingo, your RPi's bootcode size looks similar to my newly built loader.efi, so I used that one (under the name bootaa64.efi). The DTBs are lokated in /boot/efi/dtb here, rather than in a separate partition. This is a RockPi board. Tell...

Hmm, I see now that I failed to answer the question. Bad on me. answer: yes, it should be loader.efi. To add to the answer in #6; - have a way to boot your machine from a different media handy (usb stick or SD card, whatever your machine needs)...

Actually i did another test today and found out if i replace: hint.hdaa.0.nid27.config="as=1 seq=15 device=Headphones" with: hint.hdaa.0.nid33.config="as=1 seq=15 device=Headphones" the automatic switching will be functional (internal speaker...

and another one May 23 01:38:05 kg-core2 kernel: drmn0: GPU fault detected: 147 0x000e2002 May 23 01:38:05 kg-core2 kernel: drmn0: VM_CONTEXT1_PROTECTION_FAULT_ADDR 0x000C0A00 May 23 01:38:05 kg-core2 kernel: drmn0...

I think your EFI partition looks good. This is from my Raspberry Pi 5: root@devpi5:~ # ls -l /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/ total 848 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 853788 Dec 7 20:16 bootaa64.efi which is running root@devpi5:~ # freebsd-version -ku...

Being a good moderator means that you give good people more leeway, at least that is what I try to do. You may also give some notorious people more rope, sometimes. What could happen is that you use some of the "bad words" which are a filter for...

Chip design from the bottom up – Reiner Pope View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIk3R-sMX5o

I believe you were disappointed when you realized the pages are all wrong: the left‑hand page is printed on the right and vice versa (see page numbers which are usually located at the outside margin). I mean, yes, the book “works” regardless...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. The first release candidate build for the FreeBSD 15.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv7, aarch64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD...

Coreboot and Intel already have FSP :p

Hi gang! I "did" something this evening: Note: I am well aware that plenty of you guys may not necessarily appreciate this, and I really (!) get that. But you cannot deny the fact that "the power to serve" was heavily tested here, and.. it...

This setup allows me to write Python code in pretty much the same way as I do on Windows. Click 'start', open VS Code... and get to work. Almost literally no differences. Even when I open Konsole.. I set if up so that I get PowerShell (which...

What are you trying to push?

Hi gang, Trust me: I get it, I really, really do, but at the same time I am getting frustrated each and every time I visit this forum (NO (!!) offense). I see what you do, being a sysadmin myself I also see why (!!) you do so (even more...

So, double post, because... You don't use Git to install ports. Thing is, I can see the confusion here. I think.. I also no care. @OP... GIT is a source control mechanism which allows you to maintain your ports collection. The collection...

Sorry to be blunt here, but: update what? The ports collection? I do that all the time, because it helps me to remind myself to keep my base OS up to date. Care to share the exact manualpage? After you use the command you should see the name...

In a job interview the HR manager asks the candidate about his marital status. "Not married", answers the candidate. "Sorry", says the manager, "but we only employ people used to knuckle under."

So... I'm one of those guys who bought into the first Windows phone. I am also one of nerds who not only actually read the licenses (be honest: did you ever do this? Because I have my doubts). Thing is => I also consulted a close friend of...

It's still somehow relevant. I have a PC that I boot without a monitor. If it beeps with the speaker it's gone through POST succesfully and tries to find the boot device. If it can't boot because of broken memory or whatever, it doesn't beep...

You can't do anything without a massive engine that enforces a graphical UI that you can't exit from. This is why I don't use Windows. It's a commercial prison made of only software. Everything you see could be a single program.

Blasphemy !!

This setup allows me to write Python code in pretty much the same way as I do on Windows. Click 'start', open VS Code... and get to work. Almost literally no differences. Even when I open Konsole.. I set if up so that I get PowerShell (which...

Maybe explain some details like what is it and what does it?

Never noticed. It's an old syscons annoyance. Disabling the speaker entirely would be better but I've never seen a command for that. Maybe a problem because it's a stone-age device.

sysctl kern.vt.enable_bell=0

Hi gang! I "did" something this evening: Note: I am well aware that plenty of you guys may not necessarily appreciate this, and I really (!) get that. But you cannot deny the fact that "the power to serve" was heavily tested here, and.. it...

While trying to build Qemu 11.0 on a custtom FreeBSD 15.0 system wit X.org, I'm entering a dependency maze of python311-based ports.. Several of these: py-setuptools-scm py-pip py-fur py-furo py-accessible-pygments py-hatch-vcs...

You should submit this as a PR

What ipfw can do that pf can't: 1) MAC level filtering 2) procedural control (branching etc) 3) dummynet stuff What pf can do that ipfw can't: 1) OS fingerprinting 2) automated overload (quarantine brute-force or DOS attacks) 3) packet scrubbing...

I've had these happen lately, in my case I found a workaround, at the loader prompt hit escape to drop to its shell, type unload To unload the kernel, followed by load /boot/kernel/kernel load /boot/kernel/zfs.ko boot This boots the kernel...