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Hetzner is great. In case of problems just write an email and usually within an hour you get access console access via a web-kvm. Alternative: netcup Currently I am moving quite some big projects over from US based clouds.

netcup vps amd64, 6 cpus, 8Gb memory, 160 GB disk. 12 Euro/mo. Additional 600 GB storage + 8 Euro/mo. no complains (they hiked the price somewhat because ram/storage/energy but they all did that). Prices above are current. I also had digital...

Artificial intelligence is not an artificial mind... It is merely an algorithm...

It is never too late. You can read a summary here.

I'd rather be a FreeBSD coyote, expert plum cake, and master.

you can tell because the cake is baked

Thanks vmb and gergeskirolos59 for your replies. I've been pointed towards a relevant recent blog post, looking at low-cost European VPS options: The state of European cloud providers in 2026 (via lobste.rs) as well as a suggestion of French...

If you can download a video with yt-dlp (which, for the moment, needs to be run as yt-dlp <url> --extractor-args "youtube:player-client=web_embedded,web,tv" you can then run, on the downloaded video ffmprobe -hide_banner <videoname> Assuming...

I am using https://www.quickhost.uk/cloud-workspace/

they are not stable but support booting your server from any .iso you will provide zap-hosting

It is never too late. You can read a summary here.

How? It doesn't tell what it's missing. Some Youtube videos don't work without further information. How do I find out the format of a video? That would be useful too.

Even cancer is better.

Never had anything with Oracle (not counting tech they acquired from Sun), but my good friend Dave (unfortunately, he passed young) worked in their Johannesburg branch and he hated working there, despite his uncle who got him this job was in...

... and a voice in the ruins in the desert calls you to wake up, reads you the weather report ...

What's the purpose of AI agents? I think it's a buzzword and the only goal is to not show any of the reasoning and decision-making to the public. Other advantage is that it can own someone else's computer for it and leave no trace, like a botnet...

Oracle always had competition, unless you define their market in a myopic way. They shipped what is probably the first relational database available to commercial customers in 1979. It was a small upstart, competing with hierarchical and network...

At least illumos is considered a response to him closing off Solaris, and is not under his control. Larry Ellison is who bought CBS and a large share of Tik Tok in the US, so he can promote his warped geo-political agenda. We can support illumos...

I'm lucky enough to never had dealt with One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison, but has anyone on these forums ever had to deal with Oracle? What is your opinion of them and are they really that bad?

TUI > GUI TUI - no need to worry about graphic drivers or RAM size GUI - only suitable for LiveCD/USB full desktop experience methods - you try/test it first in full GUI and then install from there. If you want ease of use out of the box OSS...

FreeBSD is free software and no one owes you anything. You can either help out if you wish to see improvements or move on to other projects. You can help out by filing problem reports with *specific* details on things you want to see improved, or...

I've not used Ventoy so all this is speculation. if you do the file command on the memstick .img it looks like it has 2 partitions a DOS/MBR boot partition and a "data section". same file command on an ISO tells you it 9660 CD-ROM filesystem...

Excellent work.

AI processes living on your hardware is useful? I think the primary goal is to not have to explain what we're doing.

you can tell because the cake is baked

you can look at dmesg to determine if your mic is picking up on your device. Another step is to run cat /dev/sndstat to confirm what audio devices you have avialable.

did you check under whether the extensions for the video format is installed?

Well, I've been running apache since its beginning. But to the best of my memory I didn't have to do any wizardry to plug in letsencrypt for TLS and then configure the reverse proxy, with password on apache level, to access the internal non-tls...

I'm not up enough on the changes that happened since 15.0 to know, but I'm fairly certain that it's how I installed FreeBSD 15.0 when I came back and it is listed as being tested. I'd wager that if this issue in this topic is caused by ventoy's...

Oh, yes. But the nice thing about fzf is, it gives you that list to pick from while you are typing the thing you are looking for. As you type that list gets shorter and shorter until you spot the thing you are looking for and can select it from...

It's a tool that works in a fairly specific situation, but when it works, it's rather useful. I wouldn't suggest using it all the time and in truth, I only use it from time to time. Most of the time, I prefer to just have more sensible names on...

Exactly, img file is a data dump of a block device which for PC is per MBR format - the boot record. CD's (9660) don't have a boot record, they use El Torito extensions, the boot image is located through the catalog entry, hence why PC BIOS...

I've not used Ventoy so all this is speculation. if you do the file command on the memstick .img it looks like it has 2 partitions a DOS/MBR boot partition and a "data section". same file command on an ISO tells you it 9660 CD-ROM filesystem...

a memstick image is not a dvd

Yes, and a totally redundant question if I may say. I skimmed through the awful AI generated video. It's a normal 2D monitor. We've been using 2D monitors on computers since 50 years ago. It is the job of graphics card to run it, not the OS. Over...

Filename completion is a feature of the shell, not the filesystem. If the shell supports it, it won't matter what filesystem, UFS. ZFS, ext2/3/4, FAT, etc. That said, tcsh comes with a bunch of example custom completions, including ZFS specific...

In /etc/sysctl.conf if you add kern.msgbuf_show_timestamp=1 It will display a "sort of" timestamp. This is how it looks: ... [6] igb0: link state changed to UP [6] lo0: link state changed to UP [6] igb0: link state changed to DOWN [10] igb0...

I use apache2 for this and find it pretty lightweight.

Oh, yes. But the nice thing about fzf is, it gives you that list to pick from while you are typing the thing you are looking for. As you type that list gets shorter and shorter until you spot the thing you are looking for and can select it from...

Fuzzy search is useful if you have a ton of files, spread out in different directories. That directory full of documents you've collected, and partially sorted but it's mostly a jumbled mess. You know you have it, but can only remember a partial...

Oh right, if ventoy has in the past worked with previous FreeBSD releases, its possibly not this then. I don't believe anything substantial has changed in the way install images are made.

It's not clear to me what's involved with that, but 15.0 is the last FreeBSD release that is currently listed as tested. Possibly, the easiest thing to do with ventoy is either wait for 15.1 support to be fixed and working or install 15.0 and...

It's mostly useful for longer directory names, especially ones that came prenamed with annoying characters. There are a few limitations and the longer the list it has to sift through the longer it takes and more likely it is to give up. However...

Once you're too the machine on which the service is running, there's not much point in encrypting the bit after it hits the ethernet card as if they've managed to get that last bit, they've already compromised things enough that securing the bit...

Yes, and if you can narrow a path name to a unique pattern that things like: "cd *cke*" can get you into a directory rather quickly. I only had one folder named docker that matched that, so it works out. However, if I had more than one match, it...

That's a fuzzy search, textproc/fzf might be useful.

Filename completion is a feature of the shell, not the filesystem. If the shell supports it, it won't matter what filesystem, UFS. ZFS, ext2/3/4, FAT, etc. That said, tcsh comes with a bunch of example custom completions, including ZFS specific...

Ok, im new to this system, and i must read FreeBSD Handbook (it wouldnt hurt xd), didnt want to bother you with this, but thanks for your reply.. i am calm again :DD This forum has such nice and helpfull people. Again thank you very much!

TBH, most of the time that's fine, where T-Aoki 's advice is helpful is that it's good to know what is missing as sometimes it's indicative of software that you don't need or want anymore still being installed. I can personally see that...

Be careful about that. If you do a pkg delete -fa that will also remove all of the base system files up until it gets to the point where it can't continue sort of a like a slightly less dangerous version of rm -rf / . Not that I've ever tried to...