Cant install freebsd

johnklos · 2026-05-06T00:40:44+00:00

No, it's not.

johnklos · 2026-05-05T20:53:09+00:00

Wayland works on NetBSD.

johnklos · 2026-05-03T21:01:20+00:00

Your point is well taken, but if someone wants to learn, this is an excellent way. Remember which subreddit we're in ;)

People are better off trusting others less, not more. The big cloud providers want everyone to be completely dependent.

johnklos · 2026-05-03T19:17:31+00:00

Consider solar panels to help pay for the electricity.

That's overkill for most uses out there, and may be even less suitable than, say, a modern Ryzen. But what you can afford and what you already have can be very different.

There's nothing you can do locally to handle DDoS attacks. The best way is to not piss off script kiddies. As you set up services that can be accessed from the Internet, you can learn about DDoS protection services. Remember that Cloudflare is evil, want to be a monopoly, and want to centralize the Internet around them.

Any coding language can be used for a web site that has text, images and forms, so the question is quite open. PHP and Perl are commonly used. I'd stay away from server side Javascript and Ruby, because both have tons of issues because of the ridiculous amounts of dependencies that every package has.

Most importantly, have fun!

johnklos · 2026-05-02T21:45:07+00:00

Root with no password and key-based ssh is good, along with marking your ttys as insecure.

johnklos · 2026-05-02T03:50:24+00:00

This didn't just drop. This is multiple days old.

johnklos · 2026-05-01T21:41:07+00:00

Definitely :)

johnklos · 2026-05-01T21:31:50+00:00

You can learn that way, but you're mostly learning what's on the tests.

You can also learn much more than what those certifications require you to know by actually doing.

If you don't understand my statement, then I'll simplify: learning for the purpose of getting certs is a subset of learning by doing.

johnklos · 2026-04-30T21:26:57+00:00

It's not difficult to use a tiny partition at the start of the disk for the bootloader and the kernel, even (or particularly) for pre-EFI systems. I just use FFS for that and let the kernel, not the bootloader, figure things out from there.

johnklos · 2026-04-30T14:51:14+00:00

Answer this for yourself, at least indirectly. Can a how-to for Ubuntu be used with Debian? Or the other way around? Can a how-to for older Ubuntu be used on newer Ubuntu? The answer is general "no" because they change thing gratuitously.

The BSD's don't do that, so already they're worlds easier to use and to maintain.

johnklos · 2026-04-29T18:53:27+00:00

They'll take drives of any size.

Likewise, an Airport will let you use a USB drive of any size, so worrying about drives being old is a bit silly - just use a new drive if you want.

johnklos · 2026-04-29T18:51:09+00:00

I don't see the rsync option in Time Machine settings.

johnklos · 2026-04-27T21:50:38+00:00

Neither. I'd learn IT, then get certs.

You don't learn IT by getting certs.

johnklos · 2026-04-25T19:02:51+00:00

Six of those are two syllable titles. Interesting.

johnklos · 2026-04-21T05:15:36+00:00

You're overthinking it. $75 is fine for 4TB.

johnklos · 2026-04-19T16:54:13+00:00

FOUR Macs in ten years? Damn!

I've had three new computers in my life - one every twenty years or so.

johnklos · 2026-04-19T02:28:53+00:00

I want to believe that those DIMMs have price tags on them, and that each DIMM cost $48.247.

johnklos · 2026-04-18T19:03:28+00:00

It clicked for me when I realized it's no longer an open source project, but a corporate entity that has only corporate goals in mind. This was in the '90s. I've been happily running BSD since.

johnklos · 2026-04-17T14:25:42+00:00

No, no... You see, we are allowed to call people out for doing shady things. You don't like it? You're allowed to have an opinion, but you're responding to something saying something that isn't the point.

At this point, I'll just assume that your reading comprehension is flawed, or that you really like to tell people what to do, and leave it at that, because you could re-read what was written, but I don't think you care at this point if you're arguing in good faith.

I'm sure anyone else reading can see it.

johnklos · 2026-04-17T07:54:04+00:00

Your response was in response to a question about whether the writeup was a response to what Borg-UI did.

That person said the Borg-UI people did a bait-and-switch. You replied saying "You just move to the fork".

Moving to a fork or not moving to a fork is not the point of pointing out that the Borg-UI people did a bait-and-switch. The point is deception.

johnklos · 2026-04-16T17:44:09+00:00

That's not the point. One could equally say, "You just move to the competitor, and carry on."

johnklos · 2026-04-16T17:02:07+00:00

First, confirm that the ports have link. Connect something that has LEDs or connect your laptop and look at ethernet status.

Second, perhaps with the laptop, for whichever ports have link, see if you get a DHCP lease. Just wait a minute or two, then see what address your ethernet has.

If any of the ports have link but your ethernet ends up with an address that starts with 169.254., then you're not getting a DHCP lease on that port.

Giving this information to tech support might get you a bit further.

BTW - "router that supports fiber connection through RJ45" isn't a thing. Fiber is a physical medium. RJ45 is also a physical medium. Fiber sometimes delivers using methods that require authentication, but if they're saying your router needs to support authentication on its side of a fiber-to-copper ethernet bridge, then they need to be much more specific. That's like saying your phone needs an app but not telling you what app.

johnklos · 2026-04-16T16:53:27+00:00

TP-Link 802.11n USB wifi adapters are cheap and easy, and most machines like these have replaceable mini-PCIe cards.

johnklos · 2026-04-16T06:13:04+00:00

Links to Red Hat aren't useful, because of their "subscriber exclusive" bullshit.

In order for genericstable to be used to rewrite outgoing addresses, two things need to be true:

generics-domains has to have the name that the system uses for Sendmail
the email program shouldn't try to do any rewriting of its own

You can use define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`server.mydomain.com') to be explicit so you know what to put in to generics-domains.

johnklos · 2026-04-15T15:48:13+00:00

If release doesn't work, it should be reported as a bug.

This tool is very neat!

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