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I first stumbled over Minix, could not get it working and was angry. Later, in university, I had access to some VMS, then the CS department started to roll out guest accounts. I immediately got one (ID was below 400!), access to some RS6000...

Found there's already 297810 with patch just now. The difference between the one there and mine is that patch at 297810 is restricting python version with 3.11+.

You unlock the bootloader. The pre-OS firmware has enough functionality to write OS partitions from USB commands (via the fastboot command). That's about it.

In 2000 I was wanting to run an email server at home. Spent months trying to find a reliable way to do it with Windows 98 - failed 100% of the time; Windows 98 simply wouldn't run continuously. A friend who became my mentor said to use FreeBSD...

Whatever you do, don't visit a guitar store. You'll end up with great, unique guitars shipped to your home. Even the shipping packaging is art.

Thanks. I was confronted on youtube with this HTTP error as well, the workaround allowed the target file to be downloaded. (Not problem relate) I like yt-dlp very much, it's a shame it has a heavy dependency for some time now: % pkg info -r...

Recently, I've begun gettiing HTTP error 403 when I use yt-dlp. I'm sure the developers will fix it soon, they usually do. But, in searching for the issue, I came across a temporary fix that worked, at least for me, on at least one video. (I...

I assume you are referring to alacritty. It comes with a lot of documentation (not exactly light reading). See also manuals under "SEE ALSO".

Trying to remember but not sure what was the first time. Some guys at school were spreading an early Slackware on 10 floppy disks, combined with Crazybytes and Twilight cdroms 😁 . I think it initially didn't became really succesful because the...

You mean, the drivers of FreeBSD work on the LTE / 4G modems? Every modem need a special driver, it is a headache to find a modem that works with an OS other than the supported ones by the manufacturer.

Installed it as test some time ago but I didn't do anything with it yet. It's at least fast like xterm. But you have to learn a configuration framework? I forgot the name... It's what you meet if you want to change the background color to black.

I'm using x11/alacritty for many year, and recently x11/terminator (mainly for built-in tabs). I was tired to walk through configuration files of more spartan xterminals (xterm, urxvt, also alacritty) to setup it up to my liking. terminator has a...

With a workaround. I made a fullscreen xterm start and exit on the background to write it's own lines and columns count to a /tmp file, so we can calculate roughly what the size of an xterm should be, relative to the monitor size. There's still a...

Hmm ..., there seems to be a misunderstanding. You asked for That's exactly what's on the FreeBSD Github repository offered for download: source code, updated with the (latest patch level) code commits, in .zip and .tar.gz archive file format...

loveydovey, for what it's worth, when I took Japanese classes at the Japan Society, there was one Chinese man in it. At some point we were discussing kanji, and the teacher asked him how many did he know. He said around 5,000. The teacher...

Every obstacle is opportunity to learn. This is what some people fail to understand today. With the introduction of AI, a classic learning method through trial and error is just gone.

With a workaround. I made a fullscreen xterm start and exit on the background to write it's own lines and columns count to a /tmp file, so we can calculate roughly what the size of an xterm should be, relative to the monitor size. There's still a...

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You basically have nothing and argue that git repositories are archives? Archive files could be direct mirrors of these repositories. You only have to keep on updating it with the latest changes, like adding files to a tar. This is a problem? I...

MG, were you able to find out what caused the problem?

I maintain a backed-up copy of the .config/openbox/ directory (all files), with all the customization I made, copy that directory to newly created users.

That's what I do. I usually strip out autostart and add my programs to it. mkdir -p /home/xorg/.config/openbox cp -vr /usr/local/etc/xdg/openbox/ /home/xorg/.config/openbox

Recently, I've begun gettiing HTTP error 403 when I use yt-dlp. I'm sure the developers will fix it soon, they usually do. But, in searching for the issue, I came across a temporary fix that worked, at least for me, on at least one video. (I...

To add to drhowarddrfine's comment, at the old BSDforums, the owner became quite ill. Some other members wanted to buy it from him, don't know the story of what happened, I think said owner was either being coy, or maybe just too ill to do...

If your system has migrated to pkgbase, one can install the updated source packages (archives) easily: % pkg search -r FreeBSD-base FreeBSD-src FreeBSD-src-15.1p2 System userland source code FreeBSD-src-sys-15.1p2 System...

Something strange just happened. First I did another fsck of the drive. Then after that, taking your advice I decided to make a clone using "dd". I checked the mount location and now the drive is working again. All my data is accessible. While...

Obligatory "Developers" link View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zEQhhaJsU4 (about three and a half minutes, but you get the idea in about 30 seconds)

loveydovey, my Japanese has gotten rather poor. My wife always spoke better English than I spoke Japanese, when we're alone, we usually speak some hybrid version, Japlish? For example during a fight she'll say you are really baka no hito...

But even if you install FreeBSD there, does one have the driver for the modem? For GPS? For touch screen? And all the hardware there? That is why I insist in building from android. I would not say pointless, a mobile unix-like computer in which...

The consumer industry is a problem. It's boarded up against the situation of the operator of the system controlling all buttons. This is why smartphones are pretty much limited to Android or iOS. Smartphones are an artificially separated class of...

And what device will all of this be installed on? Without cellular baesband and/or SoC GPU drivers this whole idea is pointless. You need to start with the base system first.

~]$ openssl s_client -connect mailin.evenas.org:25 -starttls smtp -crlf CONNECTED(00000003) Didn't find STARTTLS in server response, trying anyway... C042A97C737F0000:error:0A00010B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number:ssl/r...

It is said that if you have the real name of a daemon, he has no power anymore. Looks like that is right.

How does one go about installing an alternative OS on an Android phone?

TBH, this is a large part of why I don't like having a GUI start up automatically upon boot, I've just had too many headaches over the years for something that I can easily start myself when I'm ready.

Smartphones are a generation of computers. There are no significant differences with computers 40 years ago, except the size, speed and communication methods. Serious pollution of the past 25 years is protected mode and ecosystems to lock out...

The situation doesn't change while on the charger... They made everything unreachable. No wired keyboard. network or UART and a OS-level touch interface that only listens when the original driver is loaded. Booting from internal storage is the...

Lack of attention. This happened years ago on the original BSDForums. The owners of the site paid no attention and it became a spam filled place you wouldn't want to go to. Thus was born daemonforums and then this place.

Some people like "Absolute FreeBSD" but, if you find something to read, do it without a goal in mind. Don't read to learn how to install a desktop. Read it to learn everything. And read it slowly--without purpose beyond understanding what you...

The world is spending too much time putting labels on everything nowadays.

How does that dependency work? The hardware only agrees with a specific systemd executable that comes after the kernel?

You can dissolve the plugs with paint thinner and then isolate the exposed wires with cellulose spray. It gets much smaller of that. 😆

It shouldn't be a massive complicated procedure. If the hardware is known and supported, you can boot an USB image. FreeBSD can run on most CPU's but they are almost always rigged with a locked bootloader and if not, it gets no mobile connection...

The consumer industry is a problem. It's boarded up against the situation of the operator of the system controlling all buttons. This is why smartphones are pretty much limited to Android or iOS. Smartphones are an artificially separated class of...

And what device will all of this be installed on? Without cellular baesband and/or SoC GPU drivers this whole idea is pointless. You need to start with the base system first.

I would expect the real problem is going to be a FreeBSD-compatible computer with full privilege to the physical user that also has full-privilege control over the radio API and is validated and accepted by common mobile networks. But I'm far...

Civica Election Services insist they will only send mail to servers which use TLS and as I need to receive their mail at present for an election in progress that means I have to set up TLS on my incoming Postfix server. I have tried my best to...

I already have the speech recorded as a file and just need to convert it, so no recording is involved.