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Hell no. become: true https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_privilege_escalation.html

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It could use su instead. But this would require a user account in the wheel group. So either way you're going to need to prepare the images in order for it to work.

Some notes: - name: Install required packages community.general.openbsd_pkg: Use ansible.builtin.package - name: Deploy rspamd configuration ansible.builtin.template: src: templates/dkim_signing.conf.j2 dest...

Hell no. become: true https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_privilege_escalation.html

Or man wheel; it will also work since this man page is hard-linked (see ln) to wheel.7.

And merged into stable/15 at May 02, 2026 and into releng/15.1 at May 28, 2026 respectively. So upcoming 15.1-RELEASE should have it. And for newbies: Simple man groups would show you groups man page (category 1), not groups man page (category...

It has also made it into upcoming 15.1: groups.7: New manual page of standard group names

The groups(7) man page was added in FreeBSD 16.0.

It has also made it into upcoming 15.1: groups.7: New manual page of standard group names

The groups(7) man page was added in FreeBSD 16.0.

This seems to be fixed on 16.0-CURRENT only, for the time being. At the time of this writing "LinuxKPI: 802.11 suspend/resume: fix the is_pci_dev check" has not landed on 15.1-STABLE (aka stable/15) has not landed on 15.1-RC2 (aka releng/15.1)...

Indeed, you basically need to either emulate Plan 9 in a VM (incl Inferno) or you need to bring in an entire compat layer just for a ~1MB program. There used to be an Acme clone called wily in ports but it rotted slightly. However there is a...

This is sticky worthy. Good job.

MG you are trying to compare vi with graphical editors as if they both have the same goals and capabilities. Graphical editors fall down with the needs of there's where vi shines and runs rings around it. If I'm editing a document for publication...

AI? I'm at least not stupid enough to use some always-online system that tries to benefit of my text. That trend is 1 of the dumbest ever. I just don't like invisible things happening. That was usual in a time where computers and particularly...

Careful with that axe... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeB_HC1-m20

I'm pretty sure because teletype machines and other line printers didn't have anything but caps. I used the ADM back in the day but I don't recall if the screen was all caps or not.

The two main reasons to learn to use vi is that it's pretty much guaranteed that any UNIXy system you sit down at will have vi or a clone and 2 that once you get to know how to do a bit with it, it is incredibly efficient in what you can do with...

True, mpx and mux do predate vi. I suppose the later Plan 9's terminals also famously doesn't provide the capabilities required for vi (until an attempt at a vim port many years later), so I suppose that also checks out. And actually, even...

From https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/hist.pdf

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Go to https://anydesk.com/en/downloads/freebsd and download the file, which it seems you've done. Then untar it with tar xvf anydesk-freebsd-whatever. You'll see a README. The README tells you you will need a mounted /proc and gives you two ways...

I'm trying to find a way to install AnyDesk on FreeBSD 15. I can download a .tar file. But how do I install it on the FreeBSD 15. I only know how to install packages using the ports tree and the "pkg install" method.

I am sure that once they used i.e vi to write their own text editors, they were complete experts at using it ;)

we partition some space off for swap on our spinners, and gang them up in `gmirror`, because a gmirror swapdev can also take a system dump. can't do that with a zvol.

True, it does seem quite funny to write considering its age but I still would call that era of UNIX 'modern'. Much of the userland was in place and its when the industry started to get interested and ultimately standardized (SUS) rather than...

When using top or ps to compare memory consumption, be sure to look at the “RES” (top) or “RSS” (ps) column. It displays the so-called “resident set size” of the process. This is the actual amount of physical memory allocated to the process...

When using top or ps to compare memory consumption, be sure to look at the “RES” (top) or “RSS” (ps) column. It displays the so-called “resident set size” of the process. This is the actual amount of physical memory allocated to the process...

I have been using rtl_433 to for years to get data from 433 MHz sensors (mainly temperature and / or moisture) into Home Assistant. It does so by sending the sensor data to a mqtt server (running on the same machine as Home Assistant). Both have...

That chip is pretty close to all the slow IO interfaces like PS/2 and such. Maybe that is the IO controller? Siemens used to make PCs themselves, it would be expected when the same chip is on their main boards.

I didn't say you couldn't. Vi is a core concept, a core tool, of using Unix.

This beauty is a Sun Ultra 5. It's in a friend's garage in Venezuela. It looks a little worn out on the outside but it's absolutely gorgeous inside!

As a workaround for the lack of native support at the moment, and the manual setup/management required was annoying me, I've knocked up a shell script to manage Claude Code running under Linuxulator, tested on arm64 and aarch64 (under QEMU, not...

In terms of user-facing experience, I feel ed -> vi is what separates traditional UNIX from modern UNIX. Where vi is still very "UNIXy" by design is that it doesn't do much, instead it provides just the editing tool and for most other tasks, you...

"2026 plans: The project continues into 2026 with a similar sized investment and scope. Key targets include completing work on sleep states (modern standby and hibernate), adding support for graphics drivers up to Linux 6.18, Wi-Fi 6 support...

Not graphical but fuilly visual. I almost always use ee for anything. It doesn't copy lines out of view like mousepad, that I rarely use to avoid that. I could make an editor that does everything I want but that's too specific and a waste of...

MG you are trying to compare vi with graphical editors as if they both have the same goals and capabilities. Graphical editors fall down with the needs of there's where vi shines and runs rings around it. If I'm editing a document for publication...

Hi all, Is there a way to turn or MSS clamping on an interface using just netgraph? Or must one use a firewall or some other diverting code as well! I’ve read the ng_tcpmss man page but I’m too dim to figure it out. Thanks

AI? I'm at least not stupid enough to use some always-online system that tries to benefit of my text. That trend is 1 of the dumbest ever. I just don't like invisible things happening. That was usual in a time where computers and particularly...

The makewhatis database searched by apropos (whatis) contains only the "NAME" section from each manual page, not the full page (see bold highlighted) : TCP(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual TCP(4) NAME tcp...

That's even worse. I had a Youtube discussion with someone who does everything in Emacs. I asked why everything should happen in 1 window but I still don't know. It was known after reading the title, right? You are commenting to this old flame...

Ted turned from the guy who corrupted kids to a right wing dope. He was quite the showman. He had a mesmerizing bravado. 20 years after he still had a groove. His debut song recorded in 1975. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiGhE6EVViw...

In a 21 page thread, I'm sure it's been mentioned already, but aside from everything else, vi key movement defaults are used by lots of other programs. The dwl window manager, mutt, w3m, for example.

Post 762017: You mentioned people could write their own hand-crafted text editor Post 762027: I stated that it wouldn't overthrow vi/vim Post 762028: You stated I was exaggerating Post 762029: I pushed for you to clarify why you felt I was...

If you look on the forum everyone has problems with KDE breaking all the time Its not really a desktop its more of a framework with lots of piece that all have to work together that constantly break People will probably disagree with me but its...

I highly doubt that. You and I will both be dead long before Vi or Vim usage disappears. Unless you plan to argue against Vim from beyond the grave? ;) I probably agree. I think the highest skilled people just use vi/vim rather than discuss text...

It looks like the LLM models are not willing to accept the default values.

Read, set, test, test again and forget. I mean enjoy. I have used ollama to analyze my config files. cat /etc/sysctl.conf | ollama run qwen3.5 --verbose "analyze this file please, give suggestions on improvements and present a new file with...