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Day one, I am the forty-ninth up-voter of:
"Vaccines don't cause autism; they cause adults."
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"It seems like the DEI quote was perhaps poorly worded, and is being taken out of context here. The *very next sentence* is: "Anybody who's treating others nicely is welcomed."
– I agree. Thanks.
Wednesday 2025-06-11, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
"… Just in case somebody's curious: the whole "non-DEI" means nothing more that I'm not doing any DEI things whatsoever. Just welcoming anybody who likes to work on X11. No need for any speech police that's banning people for picking a wrong word or not using somebody's personal pronouns correctly. We're all adult people and know how to get along with each other gently. That's it. …"
That's it, apparently, however it's also apparent that his team has chosen to the not tone down the poor wording. https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/blob/24e978b1f19b78e1dae8cfdf672142e3209cc812/README.md today is as troublesome as when he first described DEI as discriminatory.
Oh dear.
Yesterday's post proceeded to mention Red Hat (again), and him not complaining, because the publicity for the team – "yes, we're already a whole team, not just me alone" – was great.
Oh dear.
Perhaps stubbornness prevents his team from toning down the part of their front page that wrongly describes DEI as discriminatory.
In any case, I'll note that a great amount of publicity should not be confused with great publicity.
Last but not least: if I'm the speech police, no-one can blame Red Hat for my policing.
> a screengrab
Liam, you might like to add the origin: https://github.com/zvaultio/Community/issues/8#issuecomment-2781854709
> … overrun with Linux users who seem unable to read documentation or FAQs before asking questions, lowering the signal to noise ratio significantly.
https://forums.truenas.com/tags/c/truenas-general/4/scale
Without judging the quality: I would not describe a few posts a day as "overrun".
jordanhubbard comments on RE-Evaluating TrueNAS from the Historical Perspective... (August 2022):
https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/wfevxe/reevaluating_truenas_from_the_historical/iivy6ea/
For giggles:
https://i.imgur.com/o2fLWnz.png
More worthy, since the original topic is no longer available:
> … systemd.
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> BSD has nothing to do with that horrendous pile of shit.
I'm slowly switching from KDE Plasma on FreeBSD, to Plasma on Linux. Ubuntu for root-on-OpenZFS, then I use SDDM and Plasma instead of GDM and GNOME.
Horrified? No, I'm not horrified.
I have little or no time for systemd commentary. Ad nauseam.
> … userland of macOS.
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> yes, xBSD OSs …
macOS is not based on FreeBSD. Please see the pinned comment here:
> … it Just Worked. … Your mileage may vary, and probably will at least somewhere.)
The recent failure outlined at https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1gsixxi/hp_elitebook_650_g10_i5_first_impressions/lykf0fo/ is extraordinary.
Very different mileage, from yours, with an HP EliteBook 650 G10, i5. I'll follow up in the proper place.
> … fell in a heap which is the reason I have not written about it. …
For me, NomadBSD recently succeeded (to run, post-configuration) where GhostBSD failed (non-installable (stalled at the loader screen)), so I'll assume a hardware-specific quirk in your case.
You're warmly invited to kick the ball around in /r/NomadBSD, with a little technical detail. As if you have nothing better to do with your time before or after Christmas. Whenever; the offer's there.
For clarity: do you mean that you'll cease to use GitLab?
I rarely follow the news, and https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=GitLab&cat=news (at a glance) I don't see an ending.
> a new package,
Can you be specific?
> cross your fingers, and hope.
Absolutely not.
Outputs from pkg commands are normally quite specific.
If you prefer options such as --quiet (to not know) or -y (to proceed without regard to specifics), then that's carelessness, not finger-related.
> … the normal freebsd-update command is no longer enough to update your machine, …
This is true for any desktop environment, with any method of installation. (Not only for the DEs that can be installed with desktop-installer.)
> … you'll need to use the menu-driven auto-admin command instead.
auto-admin is smart, however it's not a necessity. It's a runtime requirement of desktop-installer:
https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/auto-admin/#requiredby
Use of desktop-installer can be followed by normal use of 'pkg upgrade' (without auto-admin).
freebsd-update(8) is for updating FreeBSD alone.
For clarity: Lumina (pictured, as "FreeBSD's own native desktop") is not FreeBSD's desktop.
There's the TrueOS history – and more – to Lumina, so I do understand why people might think of it as a FreeBSD thing, but really, it's not.
https://www.freshports.org/x11/lumina/
13.1 not dramatically different from 13.0, 13.2 not dramatically different from 13.1 …
… true, however (as a doc repo committer) it saddens me, slightly, that we don't make more noise about the leaps ahead in compatibility. Graphics, Wi-Fi, and hardware support were uppermost on the FreeBSD Foundation technology roadmap in 2021; these things are, happily, far better now than when the map was first published.
Graphics: loosely speaking, much of the work on graphics is currently committed to the ports repo, not the src repo. There's no shortage of graphics-related work in the src area, however it sort of flies under the radar when the time comes for (src) FreeBSD release notes and the like.
Wi-Fi, and more general hardware support: from what I can tell, iwlwifi(4) in 13.2 is greatly improved, compared to 13.1. I know less about rtw88(4), but I get the impression that this is another smart move. Throw in the 13.1 improvements to amd64 UEFI boot (quiet, but huge impact) and a few more ingredients: end result, a simpler decision-making process for people who are wondering about using a new or old laptop, or desktop, with FreeBSD.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/technology-roadmap/
I think, the comment at Hackaday is a quote, not the original comment.
「As for describing ANY version of windows as “good” or (sorry - give me a moment to stop laughing) “very good” just highlights that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about (not an accusation I throw about lightly by the way)」
Welcome, time traveller. What news bring you from 1970?
I use FreeBSD, iPadOS, Windows, Android, and so on, with a twenty-first century ability to recognise goodness.
「… an opaque GUI application that doesn’t do what you want and (increasingly often these days) decides that it knows better than you and “just does stuff” without asking or even warning」
If that was intended to bring balance to the commentary, it didn't.
The countless GUI applications that I use are quite unlike what you describe.
If future drivers will be as good as legacy x11/nvidia-driver-470 on FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT, I'll be happy.
Things are pretty much rock-solid for me with a GK107GLM (Quadro K1100M).
No offence to porters, but prior experience with i915kms was occasionally flaky.
I don't own NVIDIA, I'm not a shareholder, I'm an end user, it's not my place to complain about closed source firmware if the firmware works as required.
A transcription of Niklaus Wirth's “Closing word”, transcribed by Douglas Creager on 2024-01-05:
"… corrupted data from the bug is then check-summed, written elsewhere, and then appears good on disk. …"
If I understand correctly, original data is unaffected. I mean, the bug may bite when data is written elsewhere i.e. copied; not before (not with the original).
The first four words of openzfs/zfs issue15526:
some copied files are corrupted
> … I tested FreeBSD + ZFS in VB and it works fine. …
Other people report the same. No problem installing FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE to ZFS (the default) in VirtualBox.
I wonder why Liam Proven chose i386 for the guest. Maybe that was a factor.
(Was the host not amd64? I wonder.)
It's easy enough to make KDE resemble Mac OS X, visually.
A quick search with Google found, for example:
Making Linux look like macOS with these easy tweaks! ▶ Making KDE Plasma looks like macOS
https://tipsmake.com/making-linux-look-like-macos-with-these-easy-tweaks#mcetoc_1dd28saph8
More exotically, although BackSlash is not recently updated:
Familiarizing with the Desktop | Docs
https://docs.backslashlinux.com/desktop.html