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I'm trying to mount two old Linux HDDs after successfully installing FreeBSD with KDE as a DE. This is what I have: # gpart show => 40 488397088 nda0 GPT (233G) 40 532480 1 efi (260M) 532520 1024 2...

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

Hello, and welcome. FreeBSD is differently structured than Linux and it has a different boot process, there is no need for separate /boot partition. Unless you run specific server software that uses /var hierarchy there is no need to separate...

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Sure. But why? In my opinion there are very few reasons for partitioning. Also depends on whether you will do ZFS or not.

Non wine-devel/normal wine runs 32 bit Windows apps correctly, at least on 14.4-Release

The dirty comes from git and means changes that are not commited. Seems like someone or the build script just applied the patch against the git revision for 15.1 and then compiles, without doing a git commit. It's harmless but feels... dirty...

There's a "tiny" flavor of devel/git. A lot less dependencies. pkg install git-tiny

It turned out that the config that I obtained from Hiddify is not quite suitable for security/xray-core format: it is a one for net/sing-box. So I first had to translate it into security/xray-core format...

No. -STABLE is more or less a beta of the next minor release. -STABLE is a development version.

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Are you using any of the jail management tools?

You don't need to use lithium for energy storage. You need that when you have weight to factor in. You can use natrium as well, but the battery is heavier for the same charge. You can also use rubble for storage, as one test project showed. One...

The man page for freebsd-update shows the -j option for specifying a jail name. I have had success using this option -- the procedure is otherwise the same.

On Mars. Remember, Mars immediately returns used-up energy. (For the non-German speakers: Old TV commercials from the 1960s: Mars bringt verbrauchte Energie sofort zurueck. It's talking about a chocolate candy bar.) Serious answer: Batteries...

I have recently upgraded my main system to 15.1. Is there any simple way to upgrade all my jails to this version?

My recollection is somewhat less sympathetic to the manufacturers, especially Western Digital, who had always sold Reds as NAS drives. They switched Reds from CMR to SMR in certain common capacities and failed to mention the change. I viewed...

I recommend a vanilla PC mainboard with AMD Ryzen (probably DDR4 now) that supports ECC memory. Most flexibility, you can plug in a 10 Gb ethernet card or more SATA ports.

Look similar thread here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-would-you-build-your-own-nas.102119/

It has been committed. https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=2fa6358ccc39f9ef705ca209fc9dacf276ef69df

But but but ... BACKSCHISCH! Who will pay the lobby garden tools then? We should, as citizens, worldwide, do a public pledge. Gather in public places at one day and time and start "I hereby swear never to vote for any party ever again that...

I have a page written by Fred Cash, which he kindly allowed me to post--it explains the RELEASE, CURRENT, and STABLE stuff. It was written around FreeBSD-6-RELEASE or so, but it's still valid. https://srobb.net/release.html He talks about the...

"For systems that boot via BIOS or UEFI CSM and use the GPT partition scheme, bootstrap upgrades are optional unless a ZFS root pool is upgraded (which is discouraged). " ( https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/ ) Can you confirm...

Still would recommend upgrading the bootstrap. It has bug fixes, like everything else.

Which mailing lists? I've not see any of them so I must be missing an important one.

Why are people so focused on boot times? The BIOS post of most of my servers takes well in excess of a minute, it just does not matter if FreeBSD then boots in 25 or 20 seconds. Also, unless there is a kernel upgrade, why reboot a FreeBSD server...

To reply to myself. What happened was the python websocket-client stayed at py311-websockt-client. I saw that I now had py312-websocket and though I had what I needed. But, when I opened the issue on github, someone (I think the creator of...

I accidentally answered this, and can't delete the entire post, so please ignore.

How to detemine legal requirements?

Depends on what are your response and legal requirements. Data centers closer to your users will usually have lower latency, which may or may not be relevant to you. Legal requirements are harder to quantify, but assuming you only cater to US...

Depends on what are your response and legal requirements. Data centers closer to your users will usually have lower latency, which may or may not be relevant to you. Legal requirements are harder to quantify, but assuming you only cater to US...

I was just wondering if Lovable could be used to quickly knock up a prototype which could subsequently be converted into something more traditional or would it be so proprietary as to make conversion impossible?

When picking a hosting provide, how signficance should be attached to the geolocation of the provider? Does it make much difference? If the majority of users are US based would it have much of a detrimental impact if the hosting company was in...

Exactly. I've had 2FA on banking since 20 years ago. However it has certain contextual details - 20 years ago it was https e-banking with physical token - my bank issued those mini-calculator-alike OTP tokens, some other banks had a fixed OTP...

Oh, I am dirty too. Gotta take a bath 😂 $ uname -a FreeBSD freebsd.home.arpa 14.4-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE-p7 #0 -dirty: Tue Jun 30 08:53:56 UTC 2026 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC amd64

I was using macOS for 12 years (2013-2025), never got problems with any malware on it. I used to have Windows dual booted. I used it like 1% of the time for some gaming. I had 4 computers for macOS (hackintoshes) for that period and Windows was...

Found a workaround—I modified a parameter in newsyslog.conf by adding a minimum period before the when parameter to prevent immediate log rotation. For maillogday, I changed it to 24@T00. This means if the log was created less than 24 hours ago...

And it's not hurting anything is it?

I think this is an epically bad overreaction; first time I can recall this happening and I've been around since the 3.x days.

Yes, Re: 15.1-RELEASE-p1 has dirty tag set?: From: Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des_at_FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:46:02 UTC Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> writes: > I just upgraded to 15.1-p1. When I log in or if I `uname -a`, the >...

No, similar to security/openvpn it can be configured for all sorts of tasks, as client, server or anything in between. Never used security/xray-core, but looking at the default configuration files it seems you're probably missing some other...

Which ones?

Upgrade via pkg doesn't show -dirty but via freebsd-update does.

As of FreeBSD 15, thas has changed to 4, The FreeBSD support model:

DHCP and setting defaultrouter has nothing to do with any packages or applications you may or may not have installed.

For a small number of home users with intermittent NAS usage, perhaps consider a 'wake on lan' solution. Then you can use pretty much any hardware and the power draw won't be quite so much of an issue. Though in some instances, suspending the...