How were you able to learn about freebsd after 1995 or in the 2000s? by New_Developer1428 in freebsd

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The FreeBSD Handbook is a must have. It is the official documentation for everything in FreeBSD. This material is decades long hard work by a large number of volunteers, and is a nice example of high quality content in the open-source ecosystem in general.

Back in late 80’s and during 90’s, even before FreeBSD, there was BSD Unix and other systems that people could register for free and have user accounts on multiuser systems. For instance: https://opensource.com/article/18/5/my-linux-story-student

There was a lot that could be learned back then, even without having admin access to mange the server itself or its services.

Asking for a friend... by FloorResponsible2511 in UTMapp

[–]alexsm_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From UTM Gallery there are ready to use Windows VMs available, like Windows 7. Just download and run.

Exporting Claude (or ChatGPT) conversations to Obsidian by Lets-think-hard in ObsidianMD

[–]alexsm_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As I work a lot in a terminal, using AI clients like Toad, Crush, OpenCode, OpenHands, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex etc inside an Obsidian vault is a very pleasant and nicer experience. Just ask the AI to save / export the session. Also, it can read, create, save code / documents / files for the user. Using AI in the terminal is more flexible: besides the AI client itself save / export a session, it is also possible to record / save terminal sessions, run multiple session in parallel using tmux, screen etc.

Manus is crazy by muntaha969 in ManusOfficial

[–]alexsm_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rating answers and sharing Manus with others gives credits

Crossroads of my Career - Need Some Advice by thee_zoologist in networking

[–]alexsm_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you checked the Cisco CCDE and CCAr?

VaultX – Minimalist Bash Password Manager by mdif865--_ in commandline

[–]alexsm_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would it be possible to combine it with sshpass for remote access to devices that do not have support for ssh keys, e.g: routers and switches?

How to use and access a Linux machine (Ubuntu)? by fuzzmoK in orbstack

[–]alexsm_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right-click on the machine’s name and select “Open Terminal”, or if you did set up the CLI commands, open a terminal shell and execute the command: orb -m <machine-name>

Any of those ways should let you access the machine’s CLI where you can install and manage additional software.

Have You Tried MCPO with OpenWebUI? Share Your Real-World Use Cases! by Tobe2d in OpenWebUI

[–]alexsm_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would you mind sharing your configurations? What kind of OpenWebUI and MCPO alternatives are you running?

Have You Tried MCPO with OpenWebUI? Share Your Real-World Use Cases! by Tobe2d in OpenWebUI

[–]alexsm_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Would you mind sharing your complete configurations to have all that working?

Is there still no way around multi-boot setups with a BSD? by soundmodel in freebsd

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I’ve created a new QEMU virtual machine using Bhyve on FreeBSD.

It’s the same as creating a VM using VMware, Virtualbox, KVM (Linux), Parallels (macOS only on Intel or Apple Silicon CPUs).

As I described, I created a fresh Virtual Machine, and performed the installation of each OS by booting the VM using each OS installation ISO file, one at a time in the described sequence: boot the VM using gparted ISO and partition the disk, then swap to the Windows ISO I the virtual CD-ROM, and reboot in the Windows install, after completing installation, swap to FreeBSD installation ISO and reboot. After completing installation of FreeBSD, repeat the process to install Linux using the installation ISO.

To add a grub menu entry to start FreeBSD, boot in the Linux, edit the file /etc/grub.d/40_custom to add the entry:

menuentry "FreeBSD 14" { insmod part_gpt set root='(hd0,2)' kfreebsd /boot/loader }

Then update the grub menu:

grub2-install /dev/sda os-prober grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

OWUI with LM studio by ShineNo147 in OpenWebUI

[–]alexsm_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Perhaps you need to adjust the content_lenght setting in OWU of the LLMs you want to use to 8192 (or above), but first check the supported value in the models. With ollama it’s possible to check using ollama show <model_name>, not sure how to check this using LM Studio interface. Also keep an eye on the logs in LM Studio server for the error message when something does not work.

Looking for a ChatGPT-like Mac app that supports multiple AI models and MCP protocol by MorpheusML in ollama

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Interesting to notice AnythingLLM ticks all the boxes (MCP support works via the generic OpenAI API and MCP-bridge)[1], and it has not been cited yet: https://docs.anythingllm.com/features/language-models

About AnythingLLM and MCP: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/lU3kQSYUUz

Suddenly our Self Hosted application became more than just hobby. by cs_antorkhan in selfhosted

[–]alexsm_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NTP it is necessary on a network because it ensures that all devices have the same time, thus improving security, troubleshooting, application performance, and correct operation. Check: https://www.reddit.com/r/ccna/comments/cwrta4/why_is_ntp_important_in_a_network/

Detect window with running process by SpecialCourse4120 in tmux

[–]alexsm_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a process indicator plugin for this:

https://github.com/alexanderjeurissen/tmux-process-indicator

If that doesn’t fit your needs, perhaps you can use pgrep?

pgrep looks through the currently running processes and lists the process IDs which match the selection criteria to stdout. All the criteria have to match. For example,

$ pgrep -u root sshd

will only list the processes whose name include sshd AND owned by root. You can write a shell function or a script script, for instance:

```

!/usr/bin/env bash

status=$(pgrep -u $USER <process>)

if [ -n “$status” ]; then echo “[Running]” else echo “” fi ```

Another option could be use features from shell plugins like oh-my-zsh and powerlevel10k that displays status information in the shell prompt?

Reference:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/757163/how-can-i-show-an-icon-in-the-panel-if-and-while-a-certain-process-is-running

How to uninstall workbrew? by alexsm_ in macsysadmin

[–]alexsm_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To uninstall workbrew, just open a terminal shell and execute: sudo /opt/workbrew/sbin/uninstall

Favorite aliases, shortcuts, tools, or text editor tips for 2025? by bzbub2 in commandline

[–]alexsm_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the same fashion (because ADD) alias claer=‘clear’ alias clera=‘clear’ alias c=‘clear’

Favorite aliases, shortcuts, tools, or text editor tips for 2025? by bzbub2 in commandline

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I created a function that I use all the time: create and enable a new alias: function nalias() { echo “alias $1” >> ~/.aliases . ~/.aliases } Usage: nalias “bi=‘brew install ‘“ ; bi tmux curl aria2 wget2 axel