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You can still set up an mpd server: https://www.musicpd.org/ that runs on your local files.

I can only add another aberration that it just started to happen on my browsers without even updating or doing anything at all: I get the master volume raised, I mean not the YouTube volume, but the volume that is reported in my OS.

I truly don't know how this is possible or how should I turn it off completely. There are some settings in Firefox but the ones I have tried do not work.

This is one of the worst things I have seen in many years, along with all the other aberrations that are already spread on the net.

FreeBSD is an amazing beast. I'm currently using it as my workstation, and because I need to use Linux, bhyve came to the rescue and is easy to use it through the `vm` wrapper tool. It works like a charm and it is built in.

Being that said, on FreeBSD 15, I believe I've found a serious bug: when I disconnect a USB optical mouse on the "Lenovo 16 G7 ARP" the system completes freezes and reboots, I guess it reaches a kernel panic. It took me a few disconnections of the power, ethernet and finally the mouse to detect this condition.

Surprinsingly this does not happen if the device is wireless (I tried to remove the receiver of a Trackball and the system keeps working just fine). I find this really weird and don't know if actually report it in the FreeBSD forums, maybe is just a glitch on this particular laptop or it has something to do with the touchpad, just guessing here.

Putting this particular issue aside, I'm extremely happy that almost everything works with little or no effort on a recent/modern laptop.

BSDs in general are fantastic OSes.

I've experienced this. Actually when I received the book from Amazon I thought it was a counterfeit copy, only to discover that on the very last page it says: "Printed by Amazon Logistica Italia S.r.l".

Amazon's business shouldn't be printing books and obviously they should state clearly that the book you are purchasing is printed by them.

The current solution? Just return the item.

> You spend less time on your project because you’re too busy being a human-powered dependency resolver for a 50GB IDE.

Really? A 50GB IDE? How the heck one knows what goes in there?

My beloved FreeBSD 15.0 PLUS its Linux VM PLUS its docker env PLUS its dependencies and IDE are close to 26Gb and pretty sure I'm taking into account a lot of things I shouldn't, so the actual count is much less than that.

Developing software under a Windows platform is something that I cannot understand, since many many many years ago.

I just hope that more people are forced into this! I understand that the transition, learning path can be daunting but once someone's head gets the mindset on a Unix OS there is basically no turning back.

I have used the guide when at college and it was an extremely good read at the time. Learnt so much. I should probably buy a printed copy.

Being that said, at the moment I'm trying to implement a simple non-blocking TLS server in Python with a custom protocol (no external deps, only built-ins) and couldn't find a single guide online that treats the topic. Having read the Python documentation it appears that there are a lot of nuances and pitfalls to correctly implement it. This was my impression after reading the docs, though I could be wrong.

I haven't checked if current Beej's guide covers the topic, in case it doesn't, did anyone embarked in doing this with success?

The Python docs on the topic: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ssl.html#ssl-nonblocking

I love how a number crunching program can be deeply humanly "horrorized" and "sorry" for wiping out a drive. Those are still feelings reserved only for real human beings, and not computer programs emitting garbage. This is vibe insulting to anyone that don't understand how "AI" works.

I'm sorry for the person who lost their stuff but this is a reminder that in 2025 you STILL need to know what you are doing and if you don't then put your hands away from the keyboard if you think you can lose valuable data.

You simply don't vibe command a computer.

They are pushing hard the adoption of restrictive platforms where people that have no idea how technology works lose the ability to control their devices, a fucking basic right. And this is done transparently to people that are not tech-savvy. This affects everyone, but the main difference is that is extremely hard to make people that are not in technology understand WHY such platforms should be avoided.

No one tech-savvy wants this. We are already sick of Google's Android lockdowns on mobile phones, and now coming after laptops and desktops?

What's that going to be like? Will developers have to beg to have control over devices they own? Will we be locked down on the store and have to manually install "unverified" software? Will I be able to take screenshots at will on MY computer, or get a black screen because Google decides so?

The list can go on and on ad nauseam. Given what Google has done on the mobile space I have zero interest in having the same autocratic experience to be replicated on the last type of devices (PCs and laptops) where we can really have true open choices and alternatives. Screw them.

Every single time I read about an AI related article I'm always disturbed by the same and recurring fact: the ridiculous amounts of money involved and the lousy real world results delivered. It is just simply insane.

Webapps solve this completely. You login to a service as we have been doing forever. And the control is still on their side when you use a webapp. Almost every single app that is on my phone can be a webapp.

Yes, agree 100%. It's not only Android the problem. It's the cartelization between them and hardware manufacturers. But then that means that we will be doomed to the current duopoly between Google and Apple.

The very first step I believe needs to be taken is to pass strict laws to allow devices to be reflashed with whatever we want. Until we do not have that in place we will always be stucked like this. Once people can truly install from scratch whatever they want then the game should change completely.

I'm going to say something that probably will get me down votes:

Why do we have to beg Google to keep Android open? Seriously. So many open source projects have risen out of real and concrete needs and successfully made their way into our every day lives.

A new platform needs to rise that breaks out completely from Google. I've given PostmarketOS a go (with a PinePhone) and while today I can't say it isn't a daily driver for everyone it is certainly the route that needs to be taken.

I'm still unable to use it because is not easy to break away from Android, but is a platform that I think about almost every day, because I do not want to use Android anymore and I'm willing to sacrifice certain aspects to have an open and friendly platform on my hands. And if it is not PostmarketOS then let it be another project.

We need these kind of projects, not kneeling down to a company like Google and begging for Android to be open. Effort needs to be put elsewhere. That's how major projects like Linux, BSDs and open source projects have flourished and taken the world.

How can smart be good? Can you give me a practical and real example of a benefit of a smart appliance? How can it be better than a regular appliance that does not get on your way?

Let me guess: now to operate a dishwasher I need to download and install a mobile app. And also regularly update the app and the firmware of the appliance, or maybe need a permanent internet connection to correctly operate. It' BS all the way down.

The only thing that companies are expecting from providing you a smart feature is to somehow monetize that on a regular basis and the easiest thing to do that is to either sell your data or locking you down to a fucking subscription.

You do not buy a smart appliance. Period. A fridge, oven, toaster, washing machine, bed do not need to be smart.

Smart is the consumer that is able to spot all this BS ideas that are putting in front of us and avoids it as much as it can.

$33k is still lot of money! What happens if you don't have that sum? How does the system allow to be arbitrary charged on health?

I'm Argentinian and while we might be a country lagging behind in so many things these kind of ripoffs do not happen.

How come the US government allows this? From other stories sometimes posted, the US seems to be one of the worst countries in the world to either die or get sick.

Nice! Thanks for sharing the links.

Yeap, actually I haven't run directly `bhyve` but using the `vm` wrapper as is very convenient.

I haven't looked at passrhrough yet, but I do feel that if I need to use it I would probably have to fight a bit with it, anyone had a hard experience setting it up?

Uh, ok then. I always thought that those were actually real kernel processes. What's the use of having top report those kernel threads? Is it possible to renice them?

I don't know, but what I do know that "jail" has a very different meaning for me.

In Argentina the lives of people of an entire country have been ruined because of the last 20 years of robbery from the state arcs.

Yet every disgusting politician is out there or has served a laughable sentence. And what do you get in turn after ripping off a country? A home prision benefit.

Why when a high profile politic is sentenced it goes to a 5 star suite while the rest of mortals are thrown to a hole?

It seems that when you cross a certain invisible threshold "justice" applies just a bit differently. Same in Argentina with corrupt and ex-robber Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

What truly suprises me about BSDs is their simplicity and low footprint, OpenBSD being gold standard.

I've been playing with `byve` the last two weeks (I highly recommend vermaden's blog for anyone interested in BSDs and obviously the handbooks of each project) and I'm seriously thinking not doing a dual boot Linux install again. On my old x230 (which is running FreeBSD) I will be installing OpenBSD just to become more familiar with it.

I still don't get why just after installing Debian `top` shows me around 200 proceses. BSDs? Under 20. Other thing that pisses me off is for example how polluted (at least on Ubuntu) mountpoints are. Package management is also fragmented on Linux, while on BSDs is either a flavour of `pkg` or ports.

Perhaps I should still try more minimalistic Linux distributions, just don't know which are good candidates

Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and still recommend it heavily to non-tech people around me but when you taste a BSD is hard to go back.

What is an actual and solid reason to choose or stay AWS these days?

The topic of paying hefty amounts of money to AWS when other options are available has been discussed many times before.

My view of AWS is that you have bazillions of things that you might never use, need to learn about it, you are tied to a company across the Atlantic that can basically shut you down anytime they want for whatever reason and finally the cost.

Uh, apologies for not properly reading about the project. It was not my intention to diminish the project or the its author. Feel free to downvote my comment!

This has to be one of the coolest, near zero cost projects I've seen in a while. KUDOS to the author for the simplicity and creativity found on those cards!

Uff, they are really really pushing for people to keep using Windows, huh? Some time ago it was Windows Subsystem for Linux. Now this.

I already said the same in that HN thread and will repeat it here:

Let's do it the other way round: run Windows in FreeBSD with bhyve and voila. But even better, just switch to FreeBSD. It's an amazing and rock solid OS.

Microsoft loves open source so much that they are putting efforts into... making you keep using their lousy closed source OS infested with telemetry and dark patterns. No thanks.

So it's free... Until is not. My take on this would be that if Oracle makes any change to that "free" tier and you do not take proper action you might be automatically charged hefty amounts from your credit card. No, thanks. It's way way safer to spend few bucks a month in other VPS options than get a big surprise on your credit card.

I would probably change "Not dependent on a specific company" to "Not being hostage from ransomware from specific companies".

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283887

In Spanish we have the saying: "Lo barato sale caro". So in order to save, you turn to "AI", and then you immediately need to turn to a real developer or a development team. If I were in this business, I would charge hefty amounts too, because I can imagine the type of disaster that will have to deal with.