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An ARM CPU for an embedded SoC originally intended for set-top boxes? This isn't a laptop-class Snapdragon or Apple's desktop offerings we are talking about here. So no, your instincts may not quite be on point here. At face validity, "new" may...

On occasion, we have Zoom meetings. I don't have a microphone on my desktop, so I connect with Linux on a laptop. However, I can also log in with my desktop, and share screens using zoom. This is through the web, not an app on the computer (both...

I 'could not connect to display :0' This is always relative :) I still think my ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 1 is new. It's newer than all the others.

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I found comms/gqrx to be very friendly for casual listening, try to make this one work. you might need to fiddle with File -> IO devices -> Device to locate the intermediary HAL for your particular sdr and also might need to decrease Bandwidth in...

DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) and DRI (Direct Rendering Infrastructure) are underlying infrastructures for X11 / Wayland, but not all of infrastructures. And DRM for managing resources and accesses by DRI. So both can be considered as (quite...

That's systemd. Not what FreeBSD is planning. With systemd they've been moving functions from the kernel into systemd. Sometimes this makes sense, i.e. TLS negotiation. Many times not. And, systemd has taken on a life of its own, like managing...

Anyone using one of these devices why find this specsheet useful.

Right now I"m using a jail as the host for my jellyfin install, and if I can get Nextcloud to play nice with my reverse proxy, that will go there as well. I've also used it for a few other things, although often times I just use it as a place to...

That's systemd. Not what FreeBSD is planning. With systemd they've been moving functions from the kernel into systemd. Sometimes this makes sense, i.e. TLS negotiation. Many times not. And, systemd has taken on a life of its own, like managing...

no, if you look at your device's spec sheet Frequency Range 500 kHz to 1.766 GHz and DCF77 emits at 77.5 kHz. you can however use a dedicated module, see here I happened to find an RC8000 inside a commercial product called 'Hama weather...

I'm just getting started with SDR although I bought my RTL-SDR V4 dongle some time ago without knowing how to try it out. After a recent post I managed to install various pkgs with varying degrees of success with their usage. The only thing...

That's systemd. Not what FreeBSD is planning. With systemd they've been moving functions from the kernel into systemd. Sometimes this makes sense, i.e. TLS negotiation. Many times not. And, systemd has taken on a life of its own, like managing...

The German time signal radio station is within range of my current location so I thought I would give this a try as I am only just getting started with SDR and eager to deepen my experience. Should I be able to pick up the time with DCF77 and my...

A 15.1 kernel crashes without panic message? I had that with 15.1RC2 but it doesn't happen with the finished 15.1. But what computer is this? If it supports USB boot, you can check if the installer kernel works to make sure that's the problem...

Everyone started using it only because Linus invented it over a weekend to get rid of the version control system he was using then. No other reason. Just like my previous comment about Rust. There was better version control then and still now

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Libinput-Lua-Security-Issues I like the idea of faster boot times, but don't like added complexity. Reading the key features, I haven't needed or knowingly need any of that. I haven't used jails and don't...

As the song goes War What's it good for Absolutely nothing

I'm more concerned about the exploit generators known as LLM being used to "fix" things. I guess they should be programmed to report "the fix is in" upon completion. https://www.yourdictionary.com/the-fix-is-in An LLM is like a shady car repair...

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Ultimately, what's done is done. One of the banes of my experience is working out how to keep track of the data integrity and existence of files that I want. While modern computers are better than ever in terms of searching for things, file...

Right now I"m using a jail as the host for my jellyfin install, and if I can get Nextcloud to play nice with my reverse proxy, that will go there as well. I've also used it for a few other things, although often times I just use it as a place to...

Oh I do not disagree with that. Agreed fully that open source development can be done on an older system, even a legacy platform. What I add to that, is that 30 pounds can also buy a much more powerful, newer, 64 bit CPU platform, compared to P4...

As the song goes War What's it good for Absolutely nothing

Remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface ? At a time this was the standard for "interactive" web pages. The request is piped into a external program, processed and sent back. CGI was mostly seen as "scripts" in Perl but...

Yeah, so the main P4 I use is an IBM NetVista 6790-21G (32-bit Willamette). I also have a more modern Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo P (64-bit Prescott). They work well. Though admittedly I have never been much of an Eclipse or VSCode kind of guy...

It doesn't look correct. As a base, under full load that chip alone can get to 16W. Then you want to include the same accessories as the P4 machine. Consider SSD, keyboard, cdrom, etc, it could even start to near 40W. If you remove the dedicated...

Yeah, so the main P4 I use is an IBM NetVista 6790-21G (32-bit Willamette). I also have a more modern Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo P (64-bit Prescott). They work well. Though admittedly I have never been much of an Eclipse or VSCode kind of guy...

I'd try disabling IOMMU (BIOS setting + disable CPU virtualization)

Just patched and recompiled (thank you for the instructions about git grandpa!); everything is back to normal! 😁

You'll fit in just fine with most of us here. Age is never any indication of quality or value.

On VMs the phase to pass control to the FreeBSD bootloader can be as low as a second. And if you are doing kernel debugging on VMs you might reboot very often as you panic the kernel, or use the ultimate debugging utility - debug printfs :)

I'd be curious to hear a real-world example of someone using jails and FreeBSD now, and how integrating rc.d is a benefit to their stack. I like proof :D Whatever exists now works for me, so anything newer I'd hope to work just as well. rc.d...

Hardware diagnostics, integration of UEFI blobs for certain hardware, hardware enumeration, etc. all takes time. For example, my storage server here needs to check 512 GB of memory, 45 hard drives and whatever else is in the system. That takes...

Hardware diagnostics, integration of UEFI blobs for certain hardware, hardware enumeration, etc. all takes time. For example, my storage server here needs to check 512 GB of memory, 45 hard drives and whatever else is in the system. That takes...

Can't wait for it to finally land on -CURRENT. I'll be a proud early adopter & tester.

Didn't try it in a script, but does freebsd-update fetch install by itself fetch and install updates unattended (no y/Enter)?

Anyone know what this means?

That isn't really very helpfull.

Again, the boot post (BIOS/UEFI and add on hardware) for most servers I use takes up to several minutes. Once control is given to the OS boot loader, it takes seconds. It simply does not matter if that second boot phase takes 12, 20 or 30...

I installed to clean disks from memstick in about 3 mins; not sure what server-grade hardware does, but that time almost sounds like more of an issue vs a benefit of a server vs a random desktop or Pi :p If it's hardware diagnostics: I'm pretty...

Again, the boot post (BIOS/UEFI and add on hardware) for most servers I use takes up to several minutes. Once control is given to the OS boot loader, it takes seconds. It simply does not matter if that second boot phase takes 12, 20 or 30...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Libinput-Lua-Security-Issues I like the idea of faster boot times, but don't like added complexity. Reading the key features, I haven't needed or knowingly need any of that. I haven't used jails and don't...

See freebsd-update TIPS.

what does zfs list -t snap zroot/home/tuxsam say?

Well, I hadn’t setup any of these! So no outputs. But have logged in back to system and resumed after setting up the snapshots today. Learning never stops.

sanjivkapur Okay, so no BE creation and an empty .zfs directory. You really need to make use of the extensive ZFS documentation BE creation, snapshots, and so on. For snapshots, you can write scripts and run them via cron, or simply install...