tux2bsd

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tux2bsd··on Why is the OpenBSD documentation so good?

https://www.debian.org/doc/

/usr/share/doc

man pages. No one uses info pages, whoever says he does is lying.

tux2bsd··on Why is the OpenBSD documentation so good?

From a FreeBSD comment I made the other day:

> If you want to try FreeBSD just use the Handbook, it documents FreeBSD very well. That said betrays childish aspects e.g. they refuse to list that FreeBSD can run on Linux/KVM (the mere fact it can, I'm not talking in depth instructions).

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tux2bsd··on Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)

Try this, maybe it'll help. To get a working mouse with X in freebsd inside kvm.

> Add input device "EvTouch USB Graphics Tablet" in virt-manager.

> In the guest:

> pkg install utouch-kmod xf86-input-evdev

> edit /boot/loader.conf as instructed (this is output during the pkg install)

> reboot (guest)

Also:

Read my other comment later in this thread.

tux2bsd··on Git In Two Minutes (updated after 8 years)

> man... that let you read command docs in a sane language

That would be nice. It is a pity most man pages are elitist and lack good useful examples.

tux2bsd··on Let's Encrypt’s subscriber agreement changes on Sept 21

Irrelevant. Think of it this way, Let's Encrypt could be emailing a dead person and you can't tell them to fuck off.

tux2bsd··on Ask HN: ZFS native encryption vs LUKS

If the change isn't too large/frequent you could send it over an encrypted transport (ssh/vpn/whatever).

tux2bsd··on Let's Encrypt’s subscriber agreement changes on Sept 21

> the letsencrypt emails don't have an Unsubscribe

Yes and that is really stupid, especially from a group of people who are otherwise very clever.

tux2bsd··on Upgrading from Debian Jessie to Bullseye after nearly 30 years

It was a matter of who gives a fuck, noone on windows that's for sure (as trained by Microsoft).

tux2bsd··on Handshake – Decentralized naming and certificate authority

> a secure, decentralized name system built on top of GNUnet.

https://www.gnunet.org/en/install.html

> It is largely not yet ready for usage beyond developers.

Still in development, not ready for average joe.

tux2bsd··on The Creepiest Cycling Condition: Shermer’s Neck

They are ignoring the need to move when crashing.

They should look into recumbent bikes.

tux2bsd··on Moving to zsh (2019)

Thanks. I've not seen that before, that's cool.

tux2bsd··on Show HN: bashttp - a very (very) simple web server in Bash

> Sorry buddy, but, do not be proud of this.

You are a plonker.

tux2bsd··on 10% of the top million sites are dead

> You probably created a cname from the apex to

You can't do that, period.

A lot of "cloud" and other GUI interfaces deceive people into thinking it's possible, they just do A record fuckery behind the scenes (clever in it's own right but it causes misunderstanding).

tux2bsd··on Show HN: tere – A Faster Alternative to cd+ls

not entirely. e.g.

cd tab tab directories listed

cat tab tab files listed

(this^^ is on Debian, it can probably be changed but I've not looked into it)

it's pretty annoying when I'm halfway through and want to use tab tab as a periscope to see all file+dirs

tux2bsd··on Show HN: Porting OpenBSD Pledge() to Linux

My observation is that you like the sound of your own voice.

tux2bsd··on Show HN: Porting OpenBSD Pledge() to Linux

> That's why it's easier for OpenBSD to provide it.

That and they invented it.

tux2bsd··on Retbleed: New speculative execution attack sends Intel and AMD scrambling

Imagine if software was forced to be more efficient...

tux2bsd··on Desktop Environments Resource Usage Comparison

for i in 0..1000000; do long slow test echo "not last" > /dev/null; if last thing then do slow test again to be sure then echo "last"; done

tux2bsd··on Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement

Even better: He could retweet that using all the bot accounts that "don't exist".

tux2bsd··on System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

It's an added context switch. It takes a small amount of time and the end user has the convenience of not needing to do it, the end user chooses to pay for that.

disclaimer: I've never touched a s76 machine.

I would never run an OS that was pre-installed as the install image can't be verified.

tux2bsd··on System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

Various, generally older, ThinkPads are popular in the *BSD communities too.

tux2bsd··on Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement

The latter, they literally can't recognize the truth.

I hope for their sake a large portion of them break free of their ideological prisons during their lifetime.

tux2bsd··on Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement

I see your original comment is "flagged", there was nothing untoward about it. I don't know why the cowards can't just leave comments alone.

tux2bsd··on Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement

He could hide all existing tweets but have one last tweet: I won.

tux2bsd··on Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement

The IT industry is extremely left leaning on the whole. People who are intelligent enough to know better, it's a very strange phenomenon.

Twitter has one of the worst interfaces known to man, I'm amazed anyone uses it.

tux2bsd··on My quest for the perfect window manager (2004)

WindowMaker does sloppy focus very well.

tux2bsd··on Tiny Core Linux 13.0 is a full Linux desktop in 22 MB

You're not wrong.

Unrelated but also not: That's why the left introduced the "Code of Conduct" everywhere, to enable useful idiots like that one.

tux2bsd··on Meal Kit company sued by customers whose gallbladders were removed

Yes, that's how canned goods work. Turns out my method is sound.

edit: shit I spelled buy wrong.

tux2bsd··on Meal Kit company sued by customers whose gallbladders were removed

I also don't eat lentils very often, I'm not a vegan. When I do cook them my self instructions are "make hot". I by canned, from dry is too much arsing about.

Why is the top comment not two things?

A) How to cook lentils from can.

B) How to cook lentils from dry.

tux2bsd··on Thunderbird 102

It's alright if the UI isn't made worse.

The modern example of fuckhead UI changes. Changing settings without having to click apply and/or OK. Changing from the "cog" icon to those three idiotic bars (hamburger?).

Interfaces are often used by people who are not IT savvy. The simplest of UI changes can mess their decade(s) old patterns of usage, the elderly are the easiest example of users affected by this. It not just their individual problem, those people then reach out for help which can be at considerable personal financial expense.

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