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Unfortunately very limited, that is why xkb appeared later. I have at the left only Super_L and Alt_L keys, both in use and assigned to mod4 and mod1, out of reach of xmodmap that it needs it as Mode_switch.

I think it's nonsense. Never used Wayland, though. Why can't it be just a program? Wanting to be native system-wide graphics screen isn't a commercial lobby? What's the practical advantage? If you can play full-res video in X.org, what can...

Whatever gave you that idea?

News to me. Round1 and Dave and Busters are thriving here in my neck of the woods. Round1 in particular, keeps opening new stores.

It isn't, but theoretically should be irrelevant because Ventoy is supposed to be able to boot either one of them. Or at leas, that is my experience in the case of Linux distros.

xmodmap is actually the ideal surgical tool to lightly modify an existing key map. Try to remap a modifier key into a straight key in Windows or Mac. You'll be making a whole new keyboard driver before you know it. With xmodmap it's 3 lines of...

When I first started with FreeBSD ~30 years ago it was supposedly dead or dying. Guess what? We're still here. The same will true for X11. Why are there no video rentals any more? Why are a lot of brick-and-mortar stores closing? Is it because...

Whatever gave you that idea?

Is the whole not a little complicated? I have now a keyboard without numpad. I want to have at the right hand a touchpad, with the left I want alt-1, alt-2 and alt-3 as buttons. Any idea to do it with simple commands and not whole remapping of...

View: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ifuCfV6ovcE

I'll take your Ramones, and raise you... Alice Cooper. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJggWb81vmY

Schluppenkalle Got my Novice license in 1966. Worked my way up to the now defunct Advanced Class. Just couldn't consistently do 20wpm for Extra or cared enough to work at it. Eventually let it expire in 2010. Get an itch to do some RF work and...

The sticker on two of them was $23 so in today's dollars that would be $3000 or so. I might be wrong.

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Use the .ISO file in ventoy, not the memstick .img

My case computer is based on the same board but I'm using the 5600x and RTX 3050 LP. :) Oh I've also got a blower fan on mine because it's such a tight fit. 144hz 1080p, 3050 4GB, cherry MX brown keys, 500w pure sine wave inverter, 10ah...

I didn't see if you covered wifi but the onboard wifi works very well on that board too.

Hey vermaden - great read! Many years ago I wrote a small piece of assembler for Amiga that plays a sampled sound when you press a key. It took some minutes to write and then I spent a couple of evenings sampling my oldest son, at the time a few...

Note that most packages are built by default with both X11 and Wayland support.

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FreeBSD images have always been kind of hit or miss for me in Ventoy, especially GhostBSD ones. Just use it without Ventoy and it'll work fine.

Learned of FreeBSD from FreeNAS 8 (now TrueNAS). Migrating fully to FreeBSD now that TrueNAS has migrated to Linux.

Does this mean they're going to take my keyboard away and cast me into outer darkness? There's gotta be a blues song for that... oh, wait... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr0-7Ds79zo

I've never tried it, but there's already a port sysutils/geomman for it, so no need to hastle for porting.

Year 2000. My first PC. Now thinking about it - 25 years ago! In these days we used to have PC magazines and some of them included Linux CD`s ... as i used to buy these magazines - every time CD with Linux - i would spin it up to see what is...

This is what Espionage724 calls Tuesday.

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https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-usage-statistics.80631/page-2#post-521359

Over the years, I regularly had issues with Windows screwing up the MBR during updates or installations because it just assumed that it would be the only OS on the disk and nobody in management at MS was demanding that it would play nicer. It's...

Microsoft are good at sabotaging. In the early days of having to install DOS and Windows spererately, they put some code into Windows to see if it was running under MS-DOS or DR-DOS which was becoming a quite popular alternative. I can't...

Here are the FreeBSD shared libs for boinc: /usr/local/bin/boinc: libexecinfo.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexecinfo.so.1 (0x145747a30000) libcurl.so.4 => /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.4 (0x145747bfe000) libssl.so.35 =>...

boinc on Mint looks plenty bloated to me: ~(grisu)2180% ldd `which boinc` linux-vdso.so.1 (0x0000771a6e3a9000) libboinc.so.7 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboinc.so.7 (0x0000771a6e175000) libboinc_crypt.so.7 =>...

Just as an afterthought after seeing the post title flash up, I wondered if there was any way to make Android or whatever is used, to detect the USB cable attached to a computer and automatically switch on USB Tethering.... Probably not, but...

For what I've seen, Windows 95 to 10 simply treat the target install device as a full MBR drive ignoring any possible division of disk areas for different operating systems. They just hate other options on a PC and do everything to eliminate...

Microsoft are good at sabotaging. In the early days of having to install DOS and Windows spererately, they put some code into Windows to see if it was running under MS-DOS or DR-DOS which was becoming a quite popular alternative. I can't...

I would add, "one step at a time", and at the first time of trouble, come here and show your work so we can help find out what went wrong.

One of my personal todo list items someday is to just setup a dumb terminal to do most of my computing from. I'm already like 90% of the way there, I just need to set up some convenient way of connecting to the computers during the initial bit if...

I thought the 2 main reasons why we use a TUI for installation is not having to worry about drivers so much and the ability to use a serial console for the install like you might well want to do with a server.

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Hey vermaden - great read! Many years ago I wrote a small piece of assembler for Amiga that plays a sampled sound when you press a key. It took some minutes to write and then I spent a couple of evenings sampling my oldest son, at the time a few...

Slop in a OS ZFS integratiion? Not sure but I think it should be optionally compatible with older versions. Upgrading the ZFS kernel code to specific behavior as a "point of no return" is a shortcoming of the system.

There is one analogy here for beginners: driving schools seldom train on Ferrari or Lamborghini with manual shift. Think about why. For the experienced driver, however... @OP good luck, we all started at 0 one day.

Just to add another datum point, this has hit me on FreeBSD-15.1-RELEASE-p2. I've found that hitting Esc at the loader prompt, typing set vfs.zfs.recover=1 and then boot works, but I'm going to rebuild the pool as I'm not happy about it. I was...

Nope. both are identical for me. And, as I said earlier, I only have sh, not bash or any other shell.

Quick test (from a shell): check if you can ping ip addresses (the usual suspects are 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8-.4.4), if you can ping ip addresses but not dns names (like google.com) then it's a dns problem. One possible workaround: use usb...

True, chromium is a monster. Honestly, if I strip out XFCE entirely and just launch chromium directly from a lightweight window manager like Openbox or a bare X server, I could probably get the whole drive footprint under 1.5GB or less..

Great topic for a thread, thanks cracauer@. Here's some technical aspects for running AI models locally on unbalanced crap hardware with llama-cpp, some random AI models from huggingface and aider. The crap Hardware: CPU Intel(R) Core(TM)...