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Sure. Example: /boot/loader.conf shutdown_splash="/boot/images/custom.png" Make sure the PNG properties mentioned in post # 10 are met.

So, first... I don't get what it is you're hinting at. Where exactly did you find that documentation snippet? If you're commenting on something then always try to be precise, especially because FreeBSD documentation isn't limited to just the...

make install did the trick. I'm learning. Thanks again!

I'll be very honest, I vented on a whim while very much in the mood, and you're right: when reading back I don't even fully grasp what I was ranting about. But I looked it up: timeouts. So, if I respond to a profile comment (short sentence) and...

After all these decades, I never knew there was a shutdown splash.

yes that right if you plug in the device and then run dmesg you should be able to find the device name

pkgbase enables binary update of STABLE and CURRENT which was not possible before. I've ran STABLE at a period with recompiled kernel, for a few years, due to some features. I wouldn't bat an eye if somebody gave me pkgbase back then so I don't...

alright, but why isn't this information in the prompt or clear in the manual? everything else is always clear with examples, here it just tells you to do something, as a new user you usually feel very vulnerable at this stage when doing major...

This comment is entirely subjective and lacks objective actionable items one can work on. This is the kind of comments that create tempests in a teapot like a few months ago. You have to be more specific. pkgng ain't perfect but you can open...

You can use the -r option to limit the scope to specific repos.

Pre-existing command line tools? Those pretty much require the input file to be sorted. Diff works, but the output can be a little tricky to read. If you use unified format (with the -u switch), you can look at the + and - n the first column to...

Make sure the PNG image has the following properties: The image must have the same size or smaller than the VT efi framebuffer resolution. Example: % dmesg | grep VT\( VT(efifb): resolution 1920x1080 The PNG must have 8bpc RGBA color space...

You see this kind of argumenation a lot and it often comes from proponents of the latest solution trying to talk the previous tried and tested one into obsolescence. Not accusing you of this here by the way, I'm sure that's not your intent. it's...

U-571

This one is a favorite. Hw can you have a movie list without the Duke? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036824/ Fighting SeaBee's 1944

Only after a major version upgrade. pkg bootstrap -f pkg upgrade No need for pkg-update unless you feel your locally cached catalog might be out of whack.

Not sure what the device name should be, but once I work it out, should this work? attach 100 { match "device-name" ????????"; action "/sbin/dhclient ue0"; };

yes the block should start with attach 100 { thats the priority for the rule here how i match my mic and set the volume attach 100 { match "device-name" "pcm3"; action "mixer -f /dev/mixer3 mic.volume=1.0"; };

Hi, Been using FreeBSD since 2009 and I love it, the documentation is always spot on - except for this one thing, which I don't understand even as an old user why its not more clear, on the upgrade page for every single minor och major version...

It seems, here is the reason: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-July/009590.html But how to hinder the fallback to CCK on clients side? Or to just silent the annoying messages?

The first version that supported this was 147: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/147.0/releasenotes/

If Firefox installed dependencies, you should do `pkg autoremove `

You could have a peek with tcpdump and check if the server is actually sending something out. How is the jail connected to the network? Did you use a VNET jail or a traditional one?

Zero action, most chilling.

I suspect you checked out the wrong branch for the source tree. For 15.1-RELEASE you'll need the releng/15.1 branch. The main branch is -CURRENT.

Enabling Tethering USB on my smartphone results in this addition in usbconfig:- ugen0.2: <Mi/Redmi series (RNDIS) Xiaomi Inc.> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (500mA) in lsusb:- Bus /dev/usb Device /dev/ugen0.2: ID...

I don't understand why this stuff aren't performed automatically. Isn't it the scope of computers to perform repetitive tasks? 🤷‍♂️

I had Plex working fine in a jail for years (last running 14.3 I believe), but I accidentally nuked that setup when I destroyed a separate jail and it's shared zfs snapshot without realizing the interdependency. I setup a new jail and got Plex...

It's too bad that the camera in DMS 1120 wasn't rolling during the Agentic AI Coding BoF in DMS 1120 during BSDCan. This isn't vibe-coding. https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-Agentic-AI-Coding.html

Why cannot one just simply not use Ai?

Or you can simply ignore the entire security circus and build small tools to be run locally.

enjoy drowning in slop i guess, none of these things have been worth a single moment of our time and every piece of software that adopts them immediately gets worse. going to continue writing software like normal here

Are you running a graphical desktop environment? Perhaps run it through on how you setup the drivers on the machine so we can trace the steps what you did for others to follow along. When I have freezes or black screens, there's no initial logs...

This is pretty cool. Expand your ZRAID or mirror with uneven size disks and more: View: https://youtu.be/mZ-dhntnkCQ?t=509

Using Sylve in place of now dead TrueNAS CORE makes a lot of sense - web GUI for managing ZFS pools/datasets/snapshots along with (already implemented or planned) NFS/SMB/other sharing ... not to mention VMs and Jails and even clustering...

Even if you ignore AI, you still don't escape the problem of acquiring enough RAM right now.

This is pretty cool. Expand your ZRAID or mirror with uneven size disks and more: View: https://youtu.be/mZ-dhntnkCQ?t=509

OK, perhaps I’m wrong. I see a difference between freebsd-update on the one hand, and Linux package managers and pkgbase on the other. I remember the same promises made by the package managers of Linux distributions, and they haven’t been kept...

I believe today rcorder is used by /etc/rc to make sure scripts are run in some correct order but not in parallel. That is, if both A & B require C, they will be run in order C, B, A or C, A, B. Beyond running independent scripts in parallel, I’m...

Consider this Anthropic talk from BSDCan last week. First talk in this video: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6L_ErsheVM

Even if you ignore AI, you still don't escape the problem of acquiring enough RAM right now.

That's my question, if we're talking about a more bespoke software package, just slap something on there saying that there's no AI and then commit to not accept any patches that you can identify as being AI created and call it a day. AI of the...

Yes, there are cheaper online models. I haven't used them so they escaped me in my post. OSS work doesn't need AI coding (outside the odd utility function). But debugging help, code review, making test cases are all areas where it helps being...

IMHO, this analysis lack something. If an OSS developer wants to use AI mainly for pair programming, DeepSeek-v4-flash is so cheap, that with $10 they can work for few months, especialy if used with Aider-chat, that is very good in using prefixed...

Or you can simply ignore the entire security circus and build small tools to be run locally.

On the news today while driving around, they said there's some report out there stating that 95% of companies using AI find they are losing time and money by using AI tools.

That's a classic, man.

All this AI craze has a very unfortunate side effect. For 30 years you could do open source development on a potato PC that some windows user put in the trash. If you really wanted to rebuild the godzillas (chromium, rust, electron) you could...

I don't like Nicolas Cage either, it's not hate, it's more of a feeling of discomfort. I read Philip K. Dick's "The Golden Man" and personally I wouldn't have chosen him as the lead in the film "Next". He seems too "humble" in his acting. He...

Although ath0 is working, I get these annoying messages: Any hint how to solve it? Thanks!