nortonham

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by nortonham 3y ago
What I liked about solaris--and illumos based OS's--is the time slider built in to the file manager. Would live to see something like that in freebsd and/or linux
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by nortonham 3y ago
I just benefited from ZFS boot environments/snaphsots during the update of FreeBSD from 13.2 to 14.0-release. It's a great tool to have at your disposal
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by nortonham 3y ago
If you have any interest in netbsd (or any BSD), check out unitedbsd.com. It's a great forum, and a couple of netbsd developers are on there, as well as really knowledgeable users. Lots of great changes in NetBSD 10. Give it a chance i
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by nortonham 3y ago
https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
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NetBSD 10.0 RC1(netbsd.org)
78 points by nortonham 3y ago|44 comments
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by nortonham 3y ago
My phone bill is about $15/month and I have a smartphone. Lots of good prepaid plans
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by nortonham 3y ago
nvm, I see your name in there
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by nortonham 3y ago
Sorry, it's not obvious from the links, but, where do I see that you resigned? Whatever it was, I hope it wasn't the result of anything serious. I think I see you over the freebsd subreddit; you're comments are almost always
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by nortonham 3y ago
>But today I see very little reason to torture myself with FreeBSD. So why should anyone else? Torture is a little dramatic lol. Why should anyone else? If it meets their needs, if they feel comfortable using, or it has a particular feat
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by nortonham 3y ago
> I don't think FreeBSD has a problem at all. I love it and use it as my main daily driver desktop. I use it, admittedly not as a daily driver, but I have it installed on thinkpad and am familiar with 3 of the BSD's. I think Fr
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by nortonham 3y ago
>In my own disgruntled situation, related to freebsd? what was your situation?
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by nortonham 3y ago
*Title was edited to meet limit
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An Open Letter to the FreeBSD Foundation, Core Team, Committers, and Community(docs.google.com)
26 points by nortonham 3y ago|58 comments
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by nortonham 3y ago
depends on how you define "outdated" i guess
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by nortonham 3y ago
whats the point of having a laptop, even at home, if you can't be away from a wall socket without worrying about battery life
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by nortonham 3y ago
>macOS is a BSD it really isn't
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by nortonham 3y ago
macports is great! doesn't get enough love imo. same could be said for pkgsrc I guess. I've used that on other *nix systems; haven't tried it on MacOS yet but the fact it's an option is huge
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by nortonham 3y ago
didn't know that about iOS. On android the standard messaging app, plus other apps like whatsapp allow this. It's extremely convenient. What about privacy for notifications when the screen is locked? For example, on android, when
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by nortonham 3y ago
yes....Android notifications are much better imo. I can respond to texts/whatsapp messages just by swiping down, don't even have to open the app.
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by nortonham 3y ago
call screening is great. Helps with spam calls. hold for me also useful but I use it less.
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by nortonham 3y ago
>We don't want them to do it how they see fit as you put it, because their criteria are not to our liking. No; they're perfectly allowed to limit speech how they want to. But we're allowed to criticize it as well.
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by nortonham 3y ago
>I personally find the politicization of everything off putting and won't contribute to projects that do it. I'd call the constant push to shoehorn gender identity into every crevice of our lives toxic and I'd say it drive
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by nortonham 3y ago
hey us too! It was incredibly fast since we were on the uni's internet, and sharing with people all on the same campus. Was getting latest eps of TV shows and a huge variety of music faster than bitorrent was capable of
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by nortonham 3y ago
But it's a private org, they can limit speech how they see fit. Communities need to have rules; if not communities can become pretty toxic, and drive people away who might want to contribute, or even just seek help. By making it clear
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by nortonham 3y ago
>Respect should be earned. Respect regarding your work, sure. But basic respect for other people is a basic thing that shouldn't have to be "earned."
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by nortonham 3y ago
you're mad a private organization doesn't want to be associated with nazism, conspiracy theories or alt-right nonsense?
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by nortonham 3y ago
Solene's blog is great overall
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by nortonham 3y ago
1990?! why that year specifically
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by nortonham 3y ago
what else do you want to do with your tablet?
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by nortonham 3y ago
Macbook Air M1 > Dell XPS or whatever alternative can't speak to other tablets but iPads get the job done. I have one of the oldest generation ipad Air that still gets updates. Got it secondhand. It does the basics well enough. I&#x

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