Hey, it's been a while since I've last used FreeBSD on the desktop. Does anyone know if gaming is a little better? I see you're using Rocky Linux 9 as the userland for the Linuxulator. I had issues trying to use Steam and gaming when it was using CentOS 7. Last I used it was about 2 years ago on the desktop but I really want to go back.

Oh, and are electron apps still a pita? I despise electron, I even use the flatpaks of them on Gentoo...

Or can I now use flatpaks for Linux apps? I also use Sober (a flatpak only, closed source platform that allows one to play Roblox).

C7 is a bit long in the tooth by now.

IRC hasn't changed since the late 90s. Lots of clients online, everyone idling. :D

There was very little VPN kids in that era. clients on hard metal all the way.

With your cable modem directly connected to your PC

roblox, bleh. what a world we live in

Ugh roblox

My little nephew would be using Ubuntu at least if it weren't for roblox

Gotta have the roblox. If it don't run roblox it's useless. Oh roblox don't work with wine because they explicitly break it.

Training an entire generation of kids to avoid open source environments altogether.

Completely evil, and they're born right into it at the earliest stages

hi

solved the problem with geforce 610m + intel

now, how can I reinstall kde from scratch?

thanks for any help!

I installed binary packages using pkg install

Gosh, I think I've really hosed my system's kernel config and I could use a little help. I run a custom kernel and I have no idea how I set it up

uname -a says

FreeBSD gateway.dtwi.net 13.3-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE-p6 #4 releng/13.1-n250148-fc952ac2212-dirty: Wed Dec 18 15:18:08 EST 2024 root⊙gdn:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/DASHTEL amd64

I think I might be running a 13.3 userland on a 13.1 kernel?

I'm trying to update the stupid thing to 14.whatever

appledash: if uname -r says 13.3, then it's a 13.3 kernel. perhaps someone updated and forgot to make a new branch first?

That feels like what might be going on

I don't know how to recover from this situation :p

I feel like I might have the source tracked by git but also have used freebsd-update at some point

if you normally build from source i would just do a normal build upgrade to 14.whatever which should fix whatever weirdness might be going on, i haven't used freebsd-update in forever though so i'm not sure how that would react

I'll give that a go and see what happens - when I break it, I won't be here to complain, because it's my border router and if it doesn't come back I won't have Internet access so as a result I will revert to a computer-free lifestyle :)

if it's zfs root, take a snapshot / new BE first

Sadly it is not :(

Is sshguard dead? All I find about it is years old, and I have a problem with it because it reliably exits after about half a minute after starting it.

Guess I have to go with fail2ban after all

zilti: have you seen blacklistd(8)?

ivy: oh, I have not, no. Thanks.

the manpage is a bit uninformative but basically this is a built-in version of fail2ban/whatever

hmm... I've got dhcp6c running on my ng0 interface, which is created by mpd5... Whenever the link drops and comes back up (which happens a lot,) I need a new IPv6 address. If I just restart dhcp6c, it keeps the old address and adds a second new one. How can I tell it to get rid of the old address?

ditto on my LAN interface, it gets a second prefix delegated and assigns it in addition to the existing one.

zilti: sshguard still works here (14.1)

appledash: not sure about the first part of the question, but re: the second part, it's normal for it to keep advertising the old address but it should be marked as deprecated (vltime 0). i haven't used dhcp6c though so...

it needs to deprecate the old prefix for as long as it was previously valid to ensure all clients stop using it

vuxml.org/freebsd/398d1ec1-f7e6-11ef-bb15-002590af0794.html Where did this go?

the vim vulxml

polarian: Good question, it is still in the ports so it will probably reappear: github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commits/main/security/vuxml

It got added and the a missing </p> got added.

s/the/then/

ivy: Works like a charm, thanks again!

ring0-starr, I'm able to get Roblox playing using Sober...it's a Linux flatpak closed source solution. It basically spins up an android VM that specifically just runs Roblox.

seems that nvidia-second-driver-390 could not work with sddm-0.21, slim works perfectly!

lately I have XFCE 4.20 FreeBSD UNIX 14.2 display problems. One I asked forum.xfce.org and ended up reporting on GitLab. The latest thing is my monitor no longer blanks nor turns off when inactive (at least laptop, haven't tested desktop because usually on Slackware GNU/Linux)

:(

I can only install nvidia 390 (geforce 610m) and after the last upgrade xorg is totally screwed, cannot have glx and sdd working properly on kde

so far one usually has to install drivers for any Nvidia, and there may be different ones, that are changing

darwin: same here... I have a legacy 304 driver even older (only works as I downgraded X version). It is sad but true.

i recommend against saying 'legacy' except for dead people. That's related to why companies/corporations like using the term

i.e., marketing term trying to convince people 'upgrade' (planned obsolescence)

How can I figure out why my emails don't seem to arrive on a freebsd mailing list, despite the MX accepting it?

darwin: Sure, I am rephrazing it: I have a driver designed during late 90's which still works perfectly - except that I cannot upgrade major components like Xserver.

Ltning, I'd recommend asking postmaster@

I will in a bit, once I'm sure it doesn't unclog on its own. And assuming a mail to postmaster@ has better chances :)

if it's not been long, and you're not a regular, it could be waiting in a moderator's queue

Ltning: feel free to bcc me on your mail to postmaster if you want confirmation that it went somewhere on this side

Moderator queue sounds like a reasonable explanation

which ist was this?

wireless

80% sure there's no moderation queue, just have to be subscribed to post

I do see recent mail from you to -wireless in the archies, though

archives

Yeah I know, so the "not a regular poster" may not apply

I sent a mail earlier today which was 3.6MB (kinda large log file). Then I sent roughly the same message a few hours later, this time compressed the logs so total size about 350k instead.