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A browser will use whatever system font is installed if nothing else is available or if the site selects a font that isn't available on the system. I forgot what this forum selects. iirc, it was one of four including Helvetica. I'll look. "Segoe...

It would still be great to know which pkg contained the font needed for the forum. I don't know what kind of size we are talking here. For all I know it is just single fonts worth kilobytes.

Uh? Not everybody who starts Firefox has KDE up. I wonder what the Chromium situation is. They probably drag their own fonts around?

AIDA64 is quite useful. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.finalwire.aida64&hl=en

There are charge-only USB cables that you can buy (and that are sometimes included in device sales). You can also buy cables with a switch that always charge but let data through only when you use the switch. That's a security feature in case you...

No. The suggestion is to install the font in question as a dependency of Firedfox.

That only works if it isn't encrypted. Do you know whether disk encryption was turned on?

Other images; cd1, (mini)-memstick, bootonly, don't contain packages. You can pick packages to install at some point in the installer, but as far as I know those come from the default repositories ('quarterly' on -RELEASE and 'latest' on -STABLE...

SirDice is probably referring to the internal wiring of the cable. A typical USB cable has 4 wires: 1 power, 1 ground and 2 data. Some rare ones only have data wires. Some only have positive and ground wires; they only charge and can't transfer...

How could I determine if FreeBSD could be installed on some device? It currently uses Android but am unsure of the actual processor. How would I find out? Is there an app I could get from the Play Store which would tell me? There is no 'About...

I always use the system fonts because then I know 80 characters on a line is 80 characters. Other fonts may be wider and overflow.

All math, at its core, boils down to adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. In fact, even multiplying and dividing is just shortcut adding and subtracting.

80% of those fonts are unusable. At least for the web I wouldn't use them. Some are pretty good but they've been known for a long time and gotten from the original source.

Yeah, but there are always people that will complain that they need "easy way to install desktop". Look at the Arch linux for example. Its user base has grown significantly since they included installer. Then you have people that used that...

The irony here is that this is a screen from an old ASUS R517SA which is Intel based (N3700) and the Amiga emulator will not show the old classic background that says "Intel Outside" no matter how I try to make it ...... Thanks to Zare for Amiga...

Windowmaker, with xteddy being an astronaut bear; he's thinking "those stars, sure are far away"... This evening, he's listening to this... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zT4Y-QNdto

Try to set up JMW for second wm.

In conclusion to this thread, what seem to be the available options to me are to recover via ADB, or solder out the flash storage and try to connect it somewhere and read it. Given that on bootup, you can only the volume and power buttons to do...

Linux distros are going into that direction and they are almost there. For example, Installing Linux Mint is easier than installing Windows 11 which is insane. Its all about ego stroking. And its not happening in linux world only. Just look at...

Indeed. If only there were multiple operating systems available for people to choose from that would suit their abilities. Oh wait.... ;) I do find it quite funny that so many beginners and students immediately gravitate straight to ArchLinux...

Yeah, but there are always people that will complain that they need "easy way to install desktop". Look at the Arch linux for example. Its user base has grown significantly since they included installer. Then you have people that used that...

What's running in the VM? Maybe it's taking too long to shutdown, then it'll get killed fairly hard after a certain amount of time.

Yeah, that is part of those three lines (add display server). Also a trivial script <https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-conf/blob/master/setup-wayland-base.in> Almost one actual line (since devd, cgroups and dbus is already done by this...

You installed XFCE only partially. Install x11-wm/xfce4. Remove, sysutils/hal died a long time ago. Probably don't need this if you have a USB mouse. Doesn't belong in rc.conf, shouldn't use it in loader.conf either. It's a stub to load all...

The DVD image has a selection from that repository too.

No problems here. # vm list NAME DATASTORE LOADER CPU MEMORY VNC AUTO STATE case default bhyveload 4 4096M - Yes [4] Running (3962) jenkins default bhyveload...

Yes, I can see it now. The problem was that I hadn't used this keyboard for a long time and couldn't establish if was charged up. After trying various cables and USB ports on various computers I can see that it is blinking. I'm still in the dark...

balanga, doesn't it have a LED near the USB connector? It should be blinking while it's charging.

Not sure, to be honest. It's based on what I've seen from this machine. It includes storage and RAM speed. I think a real test requires a program that uses all cores separately with unlimited possible load like deep chess analysis. My suspicion...

How do you define and measure "full load"?

yserver (Rust X11 server): https://github.com/joske/yserver FreeBSD/GhostBSD support info: https://github.com/joske/yserver/issues/7

How about a screenshot of the ugly fonts on the forum?

A lot of sites are now in the 'just leave it alone" category. That is, they leave the font at "system-ui". We started doing that at my web dev company and it works well because the user is used to what his phone, tablet, or computer's system font...

There is quite a good article on the Register that describes some aspects of how it works. I haven't studied the whole thing in depth...

Windowmaker, with xteddy being an astronaut bear; he's thinking "those stars, sure are far away"... This evening, he's listening to this... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zT4Y-QNdto

Sway

I would still like to know which pkg these fonts are in. It's not all or nothing. The font requested by the forum is probably very common across the web.

It might be the people that I hang around with, but I hear far more people complaining about the intentionally used fonts in various things being ugly than wrong fonts. It may well be that that's what the OP meant, but if nobody bothers to ask...

Apologies for the slight off-topic: I never quite got the point of the setup-desktop script. For example here: <https://github.com/alpinelinux/alpine-conf/blob/master/setup-desktop.in#L143> Those three lines (add display server, add gnome...

I would daily drive it on some of my older machines if their setup-desktop script included more desktop environments like Cinnamon. I dont like Plasma and Gnome, and everything else has poor 4K support. And that drives me nuts. For now, Alpine is...

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From the klingon rules of coding: "Maybe this is a good day to die, I say we ship it!"

Alpine is possibly the only (non-embedded) Linux I would consider. I wish they would fix the xf86-input-* packages so eudev doesn't need to be sprayed over the filesystem in place of mdev. The boot-hooks are messy. Yeah, a server-capable OS that...

FreeBSD has a more or less standard POSIX/SUS userland. This includes C compiler, make, nfs, etc, so being a full operating system, is not entirely bare bones thankfully but actually quite well thought out and planned (though PkgBase will likely...

balanga, doesn't it have a LED near the USB connector? It should be blinking while it's charging.

Which means it will be fixed in 15.1-RELEASE

I wish they would state clearly that the "UEFI boot loader" line is optional/doesn't apply to every system.

... and slow software down. I usually default to DejaVu. In Firefox, open about:preferences and search for "font" to set the defaults. A corrupted font cache can mess things up. You can run fc-cache -f to fix that.

Other than desktop users, no one needs fancy fonts and they just take up space and need care.