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Not everyone uses ZFS. Personally, I've never used ZFS and don't plan to. But that's not a problem—if pkgbase were to work exclusively with ZFS, I'd have to switch completely to Linux (again).

Actually, I have just checked properly and the cable they match up OK. The dongle has a female end and the cable has a male end. I don't how to tell whether this di-pole antenna is actually giving me anything.

All dongles are not the same. Shows us the connectors - on both sides.

What's with the BLARING music?

I have just received an antenna for my RTL-SDR dongle and it doesn't seem to do anything. How can I tell if it has the correct connections? I can fasten it but I'm not sure about where I was given a cable with the wrong ending. What ending...

<snip> You almost make it sound as if an LLM is crucial to hobby based software development. I beg to differ. In fact, I'd argue that this isn't a problem at all but rather a huge advantage as it will stimulate potential developers to actually...

Nah, sorry, cannot second this one. The topic clearly says "good war movies", not "war movies", and even Harvey Keitel is part of the cast, it's one the worst war movies I've ever seen. If a movie is seen as good or bad is also kind of personal...

Here is Warner's (bsdimp) talk of how a LLM helped him debug a boot hang (of all problems). Don't tell me this isn't relevant to BSD. View: https://youtu.be/mZ-dhntnkCQ?t=10127...

hi mate you dont need devd_enable=YES in rc.conf its enabled by default attach 100 { match "device-name" "urndis0"; action "/sbin/dhclient ue0"; }; you seem to have to different device names urndis0 and ue0 i maybe wrong but i...

I'm sorry, its in the upgrade instructions for every release, like here for 15.1-RELEASE: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/#upgrade-fu

Here we are. This is the first version of pkgb-update. A tool that mimics in some ways freebsd-update but for pkgbase systems. https://github.com/Emrion/pkgb-update/tree/main You are free to use, take ideas, copy some portions of code and abuse.

Klara will be hosting a live Ask Me Anything (AMA) webinar session on June 30th at 11am EDT with Kyle Evans (FreeBSD Core team), Colin Percival (FreeBSD Release Engineer), and myself, Allan Jude (FreeBSD/ZFS developer). If you have questions...

I haven't, I'll give that a shot when I get back to my computer. Though Plex works fine when doing direct play, so I don't think it's a networking issue, it's just when it needs to transcode the files. These jails are not VNET, they're...

The shutdown_splash is relative new. Commited on 2026-04-03 to the "main" branch (CURRENT), cherry picked to stable/15 and ended up in 15.1-RELEASE.

I'm sorry, its in the upgrade instructions for every release, like here for 15.1-RELEASE: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/#upgrade-fu

You think I don't know that and I wrote an utility like pkgb-update? Thank you! I have some code to rewrite. :eek: And more seriously, that wasn't my point. It was just to show that with pkgbase all is package and are manipulated the same way...

People do realize that this change happened during many, many, years, right? Not like Windows 7 and the disaster of Windows 8. Yah, changes in FreeBSD aren't common but they do happen over time. Also important: at its core nothing changed. I'm...

I'm almost there with this: attach 100 { match "device-name" "urndis0"; action "/sbin/dhclient ue0"; }; Initially when inserting the cable into the phone the new device is ugen0.2. urndis0 gets added when I enable Tehering USB. I...

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