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Here's the thing - bikeshedding output format styling or symlink paths doesn't really improve anything with regards to the core functionality of the init system. Which is what the title of this post is declaring. For something like this, you...

My friend: moving parts. They break. You introduce them at your peril, not mine. I like my teams' nights uninterrupted. And yes, I will die on this hill in a far more literal sense than you're prepared to imagine. That's the frame you get to...

Honestly, aesthetics isn't much of a concern for an OS which doesn't ship with a GUI by default. Also, booting tends to be pretty fast and infrequent enough that it's a non-issue. It's been a while, but I thought that it used to be possible to...

Has something like cu embedded in it? I prefer the separation of tasks.

As I read the monsterous OP my blood pressure started boiling: another who wants to convert a professional expert system OS into consumer drivvel...so after reading all the responses I'm somewhat calmed by those who are attempting to talk OP off...

Add this to /boot/loader.conf: splash_bmp_load="YES" bitmap_load="YES" bitmap_name="/boot/logo.bmp" boot_mute="YES" Done.

The point I was trying to make above wasn't to discourage you. It's much more that FreeBSD is a foundation that, in its current form, is far more often than not deployed in scenarios where the box doesn't even have a screen to begin with.. if...

I disagree. Aesthetic is important and is not only a GUI thing. Due to readability. Linux dmesg, in opposite to *BSD dmesg, are difficult to read for me. Colors and ornaments may make them more unreadable, due to distraction. All is the question...

Netbsd 9.0 BETA(?) - July 2019 Netbsd 9.0 RC1 - Dec 2019 Netbsd 9.0 RC2 - Feb 2020 Netbsd 9.0 - Feb 2020 Netbsd 10.0 RC1 - Nov 2023 Netbsd 10.0 RC6 - Dec 2024 Netbsd 10.0 - Dec 2024 Netbsd 11.0 RC1 - Feb 2026 Netbsd 11.0 RC6 - July 2026 For me...

What then? I have thousands of files in this directory.

/home/$user/.cache/chromium/Default/Cache/Cache_Data/

/usr/ports/misc/lf might be of use in a terminal such as konsole if doublecmd wont suffice.

Are you running this directly from your terminal? When you run it the terminal log Vivaldi and will provide you details of what it's doing when trying to run the email/RSS client.

The vast majority of it is either younger Boomers or older Gen X. In terms of being able to sit down at a random computer and get stuff done without training, that tends to be more of a younger Gen-X/older Millennial skill set.

Mc, tmux, bash, xterm, mousepad, xpdf Now trying doublecmd as mc replacement in X but I can't get used to it somehow. Must support longer filenames to see how far the copying is.

Yes, the 580 version of the Nvidia stuff should be right for your card.

So the point is to beautify the output during the boot to highlight potential errors, I agree that is good but not essential with a serious caveat, for people with impaired vision adding colors or bold to unicode text means getting a lot of weird...

Being Gen-X is fun, getting to provide tech support for Boomers and anybody born in the current millennia. It kind of amazes me that kids today might actually be worse at using technology than the Boomers were.

like the Palantir guy (stock symbol EVLᵀᴹ) said in the CNBC interview ... the illusion of productivity... 😆

Because it's JavaScript? Don't worry, after a couple of months with Claude™, the things you'll actually know and understand will be very few and far between anyway.

I agree with this. There is no virtue in knowing zillion different formats and doing things the hard way when there is no rhyme or reason for this. IMHO there are two kinds of intelligent people. One that can *handle* a lot of complex things and...

Being Gen-X is fun, getting to provide tech support for Boomers and anybody born in the current millennia. It kind of amazes me that kids today might actually be worse at using technology than the Boomers were.

I wonder how many kids today wonder what's wrong with them if they don't get the tech when "everybody else does" but the reality is it's just not their thing. They really want to grow up to be doctors and lawyers and such. Or carpenters and auto...

I have just discovered the use of the keyword tangle. #+begin_src sh :tangle /babble-tangle-test (message "Hello") #+end_src This simply puts the text between begin and end into the provide file. Just to add... you need to use M-x...

TBF, Boomers are really uneven in terms of technology, a bunch of the most important bits of technology were created by Boomers, and then you've got ones that think that everything is computer. And then refuse to engage with it at all unless...

usb_modeswitch is a PITA to get working. I had two Huawei dongles at one point, both with the same model numbers but the were completely different. I think I did get one working at one point but it was 4G. Nowadays with the ability to USB...

I'm using Chromium.

Microslopft Github - lol.

It's not part of their regular offerings but it's easy to get and they support you like anyone else. Go here and you can do a live chat or use Discord. I might be grandfathered in. I don't see the same plan I'm on with two IPV4 addresses and 16...

Shabaz are you running it in the /compat/linux chroot or just running it?

Hi guys! I'm writing this post to provide you a quick step by step guide that I successfully implemented in my laptop after weeks of searching and following the test-error-test=success, it was a headache to me, but I made it. This is my way to...

That's a feature not a fault.

It's not part of their regular offerings but it's easy to get and they support you like anyone else. Go here and you can do a live chat or use Discord. I might be grandfathered in. I don't see the same plan I'm on with two IPV4 addresses and 16...

There is a concept of 'local storage' now for websites which they control, so the stuff is deletable from their side, and not merely pictures cached by the browser somewhere on the disk. Whatsapp web for instance does decryption on the fly...

Have you tested on a different machine to confirm the device works as intended? Also, what Freebsd Release are you using to do the testing just in case you need to use a supported version

I'd try FileZilla; you can do FTP and SSH transfers :D

Iirc Vultr was $6/month for 1GB RAM (I always used their cheapest 1GB option with Linux but I think there's $2 or $3 512MB ones too) I couldn't install Linux distros with 512MB (they'd fail while booting, or Ubuntu that failed mid-install; iirc...

If speed is the concern you can always plug a USB cable in and use jmtpfs to get the data transferred quickly. Otherwise, you'd probably want software that's going to sync the devices as you take photos.

I'm assuming that you want to serve something online, othwerwise it would make far more sense to just load up FreeBSD in a VM where you can really screw stuff up without any real consequences.

What is the minimum VPS plan I could use to deploy FreeBSD? On https://ramnode.com/ I was told

it depends on where the image is originally coming from and how it is hosted, it would be easier to ask the person to provide the original image.

Can you run browser from the terminal and output into a log file so you can review it if there is any indication about the issue? Did you also chroot into ubuntu to update the packages?

ls: -G Enable colorized output. This option is equivalent to defining CLICOLOR or COLORTERM in the environment and setting --color=auto. (See below.) This functionality can be compiled out by...

Honestly, aesthetics isn't much of a concern for an OS which doesn't ship with a GUI by default. Also, booting tends to be pretty fast and infrequent enough that it's a non-issue. It's been a while, but I thought that it used to be possible to...

possibly...but without details and timeline I can't make a concrete assertion about it. Think about it...mozilla browsers save a huge cache on the system disk so most webpage graphics are saved until they time out. Why would google chat be any...

I have the GP108 (GeForce GT1030). If you look at /usr/ports/UPDATING the 20260327 entry gives a link to supported chips at https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86_64/595.58.03/README/supportedchips.html. If you look for the 1030...

I fought this issue just the other day after upgrading from Python3.11->3.12. Cyclical dependencies are the worse. My fix was to force uninstall devel/glib20 and devel/gobject-introspection, then issue: make FLAVOR=bootstrap all install...

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Of course I am interested :) Please share if possible.

Trial period, probably not. I can rent a VPS for a single month though. I needed to test something, added a new VPS, did my tests with it, then cancelled it again. Only paid one monthly fee for it.