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Hi all, I have created a small script that tries to work around an issue with saving command history in the FreeBSD sh shell. The reason I wrote it is that sh is the default shell for root on FreeBSD, and overall it is not bad. However, for me...

I ended up with a used Dell OptiPlex from computer recycling running OPNsense and a Mullvad subscription. Very happy with the setup so far.

All of OP's points can be easily rebuffed if you do a bit of homework and actual research. Ever hear of Principle of Least Privilege? It basically means to give a user the minimum amount of permissions to still get the job done. Also: FreeBSD...

The BBC is very picky about their geotagging. They block many known VPN providers. In first approximation they only allow UK residential IP addresses. The soccerball world cup might have even tighter restrictions than they normally do.

It was. I seem to have FreeBSD-set-minimal installed so it should have been handled automatically. I can't swear to it having been there when I did the upgrade but I believe it was.

Fragile in the sense that it doesn't take much to perturb the system, having something wrong or changing something in the pkg configuration can have a long messy tail. Creating a BE before the fact is trivial but I do look forward to seeing...

I would be happy to rent out my GPU for Amazon EC2 prices.

Lynx and Dillo: no permission.

For people wanting more context https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/229151/intel-arc-a770-graphics-16gb/specifications.html

I have only just started using SDR and am having a hard time getting anywhere with it. Runningsdrpp starts up but there are so many options, none of which I understand, and I was simply wondering if any knowledgeable person could tell I could...

GNU-Radio has modules for DTV. What they do I dunno. Somehow you have to Demodulate the signal. I presume you could need to decrypt it too. GNU-Radio seems more a frameworks to build things rather than a player. gqrx is built from GNU-Radio for...

The OS version is tacked on nowadays, that makes the .1501000 version newer, even if the actual version of the DRM driver is the same.

The BBC is very picky about their geotagging. They block many known VPN providers. In first approximation they only allow UK residential IP addresses. The soccerball world cup might have even tighter restrictions than they normally do.

The OS version is tacked on nowadays, that makes the .1501000 version newer, even if the actual version of the DRM driver is the same.

I can imagine they are ddos'ed because of false statistics. Not using it anyway. Forced cookies is 1 problem. Forced cookies with a forced click-banner is the toxic garbage deposit.

I'm thinking about getting a one month plan from Proton VPN for one month. Any opinions? Will it work on FreeBSD?

I confirm that at the very least RX 9070 works perfectly on KDE Wayland + Ly. Here is a small 1 minute test in Doom 3 on a 4K screen View: https://youtu.be/Y_pqC3caYhw?si=GMYNALLhI4g7aj05 (I uncapped FPS, that's why everything is so fast in game)

I'm struggling to get anything out of my SDR stick. I need a much bigger antenna. is it possible to pick up TV channels through it?

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balanga But it has the same version number, iirc, which is why I removed it first. So, perhaps, it checks for more than just that.

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I'm writing a script for that, but it's not yet ready. It managed these upgrades: - 15.0-RELEASE -> 15.1-RC2 - 15.1-RC2 -> 15.1-RELEASE - 15.0-RELEASE -> 15.1-RELEASE - 15.1-RELEASE -> 15-STABLE - 15.0-RELEASE -> 15-STABLE - 15.1-RELEASE ->...

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I have never used a VPN and don't really know how they work but I would like to watch BBC iPlayer to watch the world cup but I'm outside the UK at the moment. What should I do?

I went from a 15.0-RELEASE installed with pkgbase to 15.1-RELEASE and couldn't log in after the upgrade. The pam related packages were missing for some reason. Installed those and was able login. Also found that I had a slew of older packages...

How did you check? There are "FreeBSD-kernel-generic-nodebug" packages available for 16.0 aarch64: Packages from (browsable) base_latest/ pkg repository directory on 2026-Jun-17 23:23...

I tried pkg install FreeBSD-kernel-generic-nodebug and pkg search nodebug a few days ago (I think June 14th) Edit: Might be because of no base repo by-default; I'll try adding it and checking later but out-the-box latest...

There should be a community attempt that achieves the same reults but doesn't depend on any proprietary/undocumented hardware. I don't believe the parallel processing GPU requirement to be crucial. A distributed p2p network should be able to...

Working on AI itself is also very math-heavy.

I'm honestly not very happy with the syntax; freebsd-update's -r 15.1-RELEASE is much more user-friendly.

Has anyone here tried pkg install desktop-installer? I have used it several times recently to set up a useable and user-friendly desktop for both myself and my sweet, computo-klutz wife, once I have completed the full installation of FreeBSD...

Profile post May 28, 2026: Warning: the new version of consolekit2 (2.0.0) doesn't support anymore the option --exit-with-session. You cannot startx until you remove it in ~/.xinitrc (or ~/.xsession).

I just tried removing the parameter --exit-with-session line from my .xinitrc which had been xrdb -load ~/.Xresources ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session startlxde and now lxde comes up ok. Things had been working with this...

"I mean, seriously, how often do you really look at a man's shoes?" - Red, The Shawshank Redemption

Why should I not be allowed to express my opinion, since ruby-r53 clearly felt entitled to state his? Or are you telling me that "some are more equal than others"? Yes, if the guy is funding the website himself, he can do whatever he likes with...

I couldn't care less about people's sexual preference, but I'm against using this as massive flag to pull attention in public, all about this preference, like it's the primary life goal. That's just cultural decline to the primitive. They have...

I have just upgraded to 15.1 from 15.0 and after an initial hiccup the system come up normally. The problem I have is that I cannot start X although I have done a pkg upgrade. Things were working fine before the upgrade, but now startx exits...

slop! slop! slop!

By means of my power meters :)

Been smooth on several upgrades. I did run into issues with the machine that had an Nvidia card. I also used bectl first to create a backup boot environment. For me, I had to, after updating the machine with Nvidia, update ports to the newest...

Same issue here, running from shell for now and moving on with life. Tracking the upstream bug.

As this is probably the first instance of release FreeBSD being upgraded by another means, I wanted to do some chit chat before the upgrade. The minor version bump using pkgbase looks pretty straightforward. However the major version bump seems...

No need to delete the pkg, just comment out the line. Pkg upgrade after freebsd-update will pull in the relevent new version.

Thanks for the explanation. Everything is fixed now.

In my original post you see what unbound gives (host -t NS . localhost). What seems OK for you?!

No need to delete the pkg, just comment out the line. Pkg upgrade after freebsd-update will pull in the relevent new version.

Thanks for the explanation. Everything is fixed now.

That didn't change anything. I suspect you did freebsd-update install, then rebooted. Boot to single user mode, disable kld_list in rc.conf. Reboot and continue with the upgrade. Your DRM driver is the one that's crashing the system, it was...

And what does drill @8.8.8.8 . NS in your computer?