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If you don't use resource hog compilers it is not so bad. And you can still get used computers (This month I bought two 8 year old mini PCs, 16GB each, one even has a 2 Gbe ports, for $40 each). Not very useful for vibe coding with local LLMs but...

Just as a PS, is it possible to enable USB Tethering automatically when connecting a USB cable from a PC?

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

I also have Waterfox and Librewolf and I see what mer sees. Oh, and I also have firefox on here, and have $HOME/.mozilla. No mozilla in $HOME/.config. Another machine which has chromium does have a $HOME/.config/chromium.

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

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.

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.

You can't fight in here. This is the war thread.

Oooh, such things are pretty difficult. Those need to be taken with many, many grains of salt, if even at all. There are a lot many of such movies made, especially in Germany: Snippets taken from old Wochenschau- and propaganda movies, glued...

I think they're a valuable part of the historical record. To hell with Axis Germany. I've studied history since I could read and German in school and college. From my POV, the rare HD gun cam footage is worth the views. The Germans had good media...

How do I tell what it is currently set to?

xset s 300 to set it to 300 seconds = 5 minutes xset s default to set it back to what's written in your X config

I can purchase a P4 system today for a fraction of the cost than I could back then. A pentium 4 is easily good enough for open-source development.

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.

How to set the period before the screen goes blank? I'm using LXDE if that is relavant?

For me it's not about the coding. It's about review, testing, maybe some utility functions, test cases.

By definition (project definition of rcd) it tries to execute service scripts in parallel. So in theory, startup in parallel instead of serial should be faster. But yes theory and reality may not track.

... and also on some form of control on the fake news and lies the political parties tell us. Otherwise you simply vote who is lying better. Democracy cannot be fully meritocratic, because it captures the votes of the average, but at least we can...

Since the invention of the powersaw, wood no longer cuts without one. -- Seems like a resonable argument.

ZFS, Boot Environments, dangerous. I think fundamental misunderstanding. A BE on ZFS makes it easier to rollback to a working system if something goes wrong. Not because an upgrade is "dangerous" but "if something goes wrong how can I revert and...

I guess this may be a controversial opinion, but if FreeBSD upgrades/updates are so "dangerous" that everyone sees the need to have boot environments just to be able to rollback to whatever version one had before the upgrade, maybe what we should...

First-class ZFS support is the best selling point of FreeBSD. ZFS is also portable across multiple operating systems: Solaris/Illumos, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, MacOS X, etc. ZFS doesn't need that much memory if you don't enable online...

This point/aspect is interesting to me. I've been using ZFS on my systems, even on single device, simply because of Boot Environments (easiest rollback to working system on failed upgrade I've ever run across). I recognize the UFS has...

Using rnnoise you can record your microphone with ffmpeg with noise suppression to cut out background noise like noisy fans Using rnnoise you can record your microphone with ffmpeg with noise suppression to cut out background noise like noisy...

See if you have any zfs snapshots with command "zfs list -t all". You can browse all snapshots under .zfs in the zfs mounted dir. For example, if "zroot/home/rajiv" is mounted on "/home/rajiv", you can check its snapshots under...

One possibility (if you don't have snapshots) is to go to the boot menu, press "e", and select a different BE. Then, mount the BE and recover .db file and copy and paste into bad BE

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966, a real masterpiece. The U.S. civil war, 1861-1865, is running in the background.

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FWIW this fixed itself. pkg32.sh --old upgrade -r FreeBSD-ports started working and now installs packages that make 32 bit *.exe s work. I don't think I am using WoW64.

Apologies for the music. There is a webinar on this tomorrow if you want a fresh feed: https://klarasystems.com/webinars/understanding-anyraid-architecture-use-cases-tradeoffs/

I have no idea. It wasn't there during the conference talk. I am in contact with the authorities on streaming.

For anyraid to work you need one disk more than your redundancy count. So if your redundancy is 2-way mirror you need at least 3 disks.

You can't fight in here. This is the war thread.

I just received an antenna kit like this. Did you notice the different telescoping antennas that came with it? You adjust the antenna length by what frequencies you want to receive. With the telescoping elements fully extended you will be able to...

Chromium has very large (RAM-wise) linker phases. If you have only 1 GB per hardware thread you will swap to death.

Hi I somehow deleted a few files including an important .db from trash of FreeBSD. All the while I was thinking I had the latest version backup, but now I am stuck. I tried using FreeBSD boot up usb, using option 3, boot -s and then using grep...

Has anyone mentioned Hot Shots Part Deux? A Rambo parody and pretty funny. Jim Abrahams wrote it--he was with the Zucker Brothers, the 3 of them did Airplane. No serious commentary on war, but pretty funny.

I migrated from gnu/linux , gnu/Guix around October 25. Am really find various flavours interesting and used them for around two decades. But Freebsd was my choice once I wanted to settle for my free open source project ‘relysam’ a core...

Since the invention of the powersaw, wood no longer cuts without one. -- Seems like a resonable argument.

/usr/local being used for packages is a nice isolation.

One other thing that pkgbase allows, is downgrades and sidegrades. I.e. from 15-Stable to 15.1. From 15.1 to 15.0, 15.1 to 15-Stable, etc. It's not perfect but it works. The main bottleneck is the sqlite database which needs to be understood by...

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...

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...