ScrewDriver1337: It would be really nice if you would fix your client and/or network so that your client would not disconnect-connect endlessly. So much noise from it!

rwp: i ignored those ages ago for this very reason

the only downside is i reply to people who peace out

Looking for unmaintained ports that use USES=cargo — is there a quick way to list them, or is grep through the ports tree the best option?

rtprio, I keep contemplating ignoring them too but they are useful to know if people are in the channel or not.

i thought he meant for them to fix their issue?

is screwdriver under attack how can we help lol

Someone K-Lined ScrewDriver1337 though so globally the endless connect-disconnect cycle tripped some circuit breaker for it.

FWIW, your client might have a smartfilter plugin, which only shows joins/parts for users that have been active recently.

Some clients, like weechat, can also alter the user's name if they've since left the channel e.g. if you're using coloured nicks, you can set it to dark grey or something. Both things complement one another nicely.

i don’t suppose theres a utility on freebsd that can make mac compatible .dmg disk images?

that kind of suggests they are just a hfs file system in a file

`pkg search hfs` has results

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is freebsd adding age verification?

seems like it was added to systemd recently heh

age verification can be implemented for GUI programs on FreeBSD by the same means as has happened onsystemd

but I think the actual method will be different if done

what are you guys talking about?

age verification implemented in operating systems?

that's outrageous

systemd added some optional birthday field to some user info object, no verification

For now.

I don't suppose anybody here uses amazon-ssm-agent on fbsd in aws? I'm wondering if you had to do any special configuration to make it work. we have it fully working on linux, so the account/perms/etc are correct.

sniffing traffic shows SSM agent trying to reach slightly different metadata URLs than on linux, which makes me wonder if it's something specific to how the agent is set up. neither linux nor freebsd have any pre-set configurations

scottpedia - there was some discussion of that over on #freebsd-social a while ago

hello, im trying to dual boot freebsd, using a reclaimed space of 100G in my nvme disk. but when i use gpart add -t freebsd-zfs nda0 , it returns no free space

u0_a216, does `gpart show nda0` show free space? fe: - free - (100g)

that nvme block i had earlier wiped is being shown as linux-data

free is 328k

then probably you don't have free space

so should i destroy that block

i think so - if you don't have any data on this partition.

im not quite confident with the approach, as i havent used gpart before, i guess i can boot and use fdisk to clear that

yeah better do with a tool you are confident with

kind of dumb question tho, is there any way to utilise the existing linux swap with freebsd

i heard partition names don't matter and underlying filesystem type can be anything no matter what. i don't know if we have anything like "mkswap" but probably you can use it i guess

thanks will look abt it after boot

the issue being im not able to get past the partition, either by manual or by shell

it return culd not create /mnt/usr/freebsd-dist

In theory the swap partition can be dynamically created each boot on each OS. But using it on each normally will have conflicting on disk formats for swap header and such.

On linux there is the dphys-swap package which can dynamically create it on boot. On FreeBSD something simple could be constructed to do the same thing. (There might already be something.)

On FreeBSD I always use a dedicated swap partition (not a file located on zfs, deadlock potential there) and always ephemeral encryption because why not.

Swap should be a parition, and not a file for performance reasons. . . takes the fileystem code out of the swap access equation.

Though, interestingly. . . Windows has a unique way to do that.

as far as i know, FreeBSD doesn't require any particular header on a swap partition, does it?

if Linux requires that and also has supports for dynamically writing the header, that should be all you need

Linux requires a swap header created with mkswap.

Which was the reason I was saying something that dynamically created swap at boot time could switch between partition types.

CrtxReavr, It depends. In the long ago when RAM was in short supply and swap was required for almost anything to run then we wanted swap devices to be fast.

Then we had a golden age when RAM was cheap and plentiful and we only ever used swap for hibernate-resume and for holding never to be used again parts of the system and swap devices could be glacially slow and it just would not matter.

Now we enter into the new age when RAM is simply unobtainable (due to AI consumption of it) and we are once again managing RAM.

hm, I could understand needing the partition marked as swap partition in the partition table to protect from accidentally using a wrong partition and destroying data, but why would you require some header on the partition?

Now that goverments are springing for "AI" hardware & power consumption, I think most of those "AI" datacenters, are actually mining crypto, while the goverment pays for the power.

nimaje, It's to prevent blasting a partition containing "my most important work" with swap. It requires an explicit header to say, it's okay to blast over this partition data with encrypted swap.

It normally includes a UUID and that allows multiple systems to select a particular associated swap partition by UUID rather than by device name.

Hello to all XigmaNAS users! Does anyone have a Terramaster F2 or similar (F4)? I have a F2-423 and could need hints about the hardware.

E.g. it runs smooth & silent, but I see no additional freq levels: dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1996/-1. But the monitor that I enabled shows that the CPU freq varies between 2.2 GHz and 2.6 GHz.

Sorry wrong channel ;)