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I will post that asap. And thanks....again. Oh. And I have turned off both CSM and safeboot, as far as I can tell. Ken Gordon

Turn off "safe boot". CSM can be on or off, CSM "on" is the traditional BIOS boot, off will probably only allow UEFI boot. Depends a bit on what you used for the disk, GPT + freebsd-boot partition, or an efi partition, or even both. gpart show...

When you have access to the device, everything can be accessed. Just not without any apps you'll find to install.

Since such computers don't provide root credentials to the physical operator, it can be considered compromised out of the box. The CIA only has to call the manufacturer to borrow these credentials.. They installed the OS. They know how to access...

Turn off "safe boot". CSM can be on or off, CSM "on" is the traditional BIOS boot, off will probably only allow UEFI boot. Depends a bit on what you used for the disk, GPT + freebsd-boot partition, or an efi partition, or even both. gpart show...

Well, it is obvious I screwed up...again. First, I was trying to build a second installation of FreeBSD 14.3 on a much larger, 6TB, HDD, on my desktop computer. I had to tweak the mobo settings to get the bios to recognize the 6TB drive, and in...

Assuming someone has some top secret info on a smart phone and it suddenly does not boot up properly, how would the CIA recover data on the phone? In my case I have an Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 which looks as though it boots up normally but none of...

OK, this seems to have been FIXED in STABLE. Now the vlanfilter enabled bridge tagged VLAN network connecting over LAN works as expected. I.e., using a remote if.<VLAN ID> interface. Still haven't tested yet the WLAN iface integration into the...

Do you have a link to the PR?

Here's the catch - I am not a traditional KDE user. I had used KDE on some Linux distros I ran in early 00s, however WindowMaker is my thing. Also I would like people to realize I always had power to force FreeBSD at the dayjob, from my first...

Since KDE Frameworks and KDE Gear aren't explicitly dependent on Wayland; the Foundation should get behind the SonicDE fork (and XLibre) and contribute bug fixes through the FreeBSD Desktop Team. Wayland is a dead end. It's deficient and loosely...

It's the copy/paste functionality of X (and Wayland), not the terminal.

I need a browser, not a pdf viewer or an image editor.

There is no a single system command to maintain ports. The 'port system' is based on makefiles, make is the command that maintain ports. There are some ports that maintain them, I recommend ports-mgmt/portmaster: portmaster -af is the equivalent...

New to the BSD's. I m testing to see if my workflow can be duplicated with a BSD as a desktop user. I settled on FreeBSD,I followed the fine manual, a first, works perfectly. I no longer do desktops, laptops here. application...

pkg.sql.* is a compressed file created by pkg shell .dump. See /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/411.pkg-backup You should be able to restore it with .read. The /var/log/message file records the installation and uninstallation of packages. Please...

Since KDE Frameworks and KDE Gear aren't explicitly dependent on Wayland; the Foundation should get behind the SonicDE fork (and XLibre) and contribute bug fixes through the FreeBSD Desktop Team. Wayland is a dead end. It's deficient and loosely...

He would be a great mascot for something.

He would be a great mascot for something.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

"zpool scrub", I have to read manpage, I'm totally ignorant about ZFS. Well I will try all tomorrow in late afternoon. Many thanks bakul.

There is no a single system command to maintain ports. The 'port system' is based on makefiles, make is the command that maintain ports. There are some ports that maintain them, I recommend ports-mgmt/portmaster: portmaster -af is the equivalent...

free@nomonoru ` `.....---.......--.``` -/ ------------- +o .--` /y:` +. Host: 20JJS30900 (ThinkPad Yoga 370) yo`:. :o `+- Kernel: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p8 y/ -/` -o/...

I don't bother.

I have kde6 running on Wayland on ThinkPad Yoga, intel graphic card without problem. I like my experience so far better than with Xorg

Wait, I turned off the machine and turned off my brain too (swearing enough) to go to dinner. I rebooted the machine (Windows) started the VM (VirtualBox) and FreeBSD boot normally, maybe the problem was in the host too. It was a very short...

LibreQuest there is a screenshot of my Plasma desktop in the screenshot thread, from FreeBSD 14.x. I have FreeBSD 15 now, and it wasn't an upgrade, it was fresh pkgbase install. I just restored my home dir, and packages, and I have the same desktop.

I don't understand all the KDE hate outside of this X11 support dropping thing. KDE is directly influenced by CDE. When CDE was prescribed for UNIX 98 standard, it was by no means lightweight, efficient or optimal. The UI shell of Mac OS or...

usable screenshot utilities, native file managers, usable window decorations, and a ton of utilities (like Okular). If I'm forced to use TWM/ctwm, it's not that different from dropping into command-line. Ricing a basic X window manager like TWM...

Alexander88207 is the perfect person to ask. The latest Mizuma doesn't like Steam with the latest wine. Epic games and GOG work though.

Can regular GUI Steam load in Wine? I ran Dota 2 on FreeBSD with SteamCMD and wine-devel (no Proton/Linuxulator), but SteamCMD didn't authenticate with Steam APIs or something (no official multiplayer/rank); but I'm thinking if regular Steam can...

I'm curious about this; on 16.0-CURRENT a few days ago I could have a wpa_supplicant with no mention of a key_mgmt=NONE entry, and still get auto-connected to a nearby open xfinitywifi AP. ee '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' network={ ssid="Main...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. From April 24–26, the FreeBSD community held its first regional hackathon in the Frankfurt area (Germany). The three-day event brought together 25 attendees, including seasoned project...

Old info (2025), and it's not even FreeBSD-related. And works fine on FreeBSD's Plasma 6 Wayland these days if you install up-to-date stuff. Seems like Linux still has that issue unresolved. 😏

xfce4-screenshooter-plugin works no config out-the-box with Print Screen key with basic Xfce :D I'm thinking that's a Wayland invention (reports about inconsistent copy/paste on Plasma 6, and I've seen it GNOME; apparently I copy/paste faster...

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The loader menu, not the installer. This thing: https://docs-archive.freebsd.org/doc/13.0-RELEASE/usr/local/share/doc/freebsd/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/bsdinstall-newboot-loader-menu.png

My god, this is the most hidden setting in the history of mankind and universe. The default sound is amazing for the headphones but not for my laptop speakers. Laptop speakers get major distortion at higher volume. I think the equalizer is what...

I'd probably turn it off if I saw EQ on :p But that looks like an interesting option. My laptop speakers sound ok every OS without EQ, but Waves MaxxAudio on Windows kind-of cleans it up (more treble/less bass; messes with niche stuff a little...

Default for whom, FreeBSD or KDE? The things on the Kicad link cannot be solved, they are design issues.

Wayland SHALL resolve at least below before becoming default: Sane IM Engines support at worst as the level of X11, INDEPENDENT WITH COMPOSITOR. Compositor-specific configs are NOT acceptable. The worst level should be per-toolkits (i.e., Gtk...

I seem to have only 4 top-level kde ports installed. Will these continue working if KDE no longer supports Xorg, I wonder ?? [ Just saw a thread on news.ycombinator.com about the looming Xorg>Wayland KDE switch which echoed some of the concerns...

I remember using a PS/2 model 80 to run OS/2. It had a full graphical desktop, all kinds of software ran on it, editors, compilers, word processor, graphics, tcp/ip, etc.. It ran on a 386 cpu and had 8 MB RAM. My memory told me it had a 486...

A typical POST on a decent server with a big HBA or RAID card will take a lot longer than those 4-5 seconds you gained by adjusting the boot timer 😁 It'll help on a typical VM though, those things (re)boot fast.

We had more ability to travel to the West, so it was easy to smuggle in computers, few companies had license deals with DEC and Honeywell-Bull, and we were better at stealing – even our school computer TIM011 was actually copy of Steve Ciarcia's...

Most of my systems run a -RELEASE with the GENERIC kernel, easy to update with freebsd-upgrade. I do have a few systems running -STABLE with a custom kernel, but I rarely mess those up, and I'm capable enough to recover if I do. Those 5-nines...

Don't think so. loader has just enough logic to read a filesystem, but that's about it. Maybe it's stored in an efivar?

The "beasty" menu allows you to select the kernel, did you select kernel.generic there perhaps?

I moved from USB to PCI interface and crackling is completely gone. Under all conditions. Before with sole Focusrite + nvidia crackling would be worse as uaudio and main latency was lowered. But it did not happen with Jack and Jack apps. E.g...