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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

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 if you haven't.

My phone bill is about $15/month and I have a smartphone. Lots of good prepaid plans

nvm, I see your name in there

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 informative and helpful.

>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 feature they like/need.

> 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 FreeBSD does have some issues, some laid out in this letter. The rest seems like some drama.

>In my own disgruntled situation,

related to freebsd? what was your situation?

*Title was edited to meet limit

depends on how you define "outdated" i guess

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

>macOS is a BSD

it really isn't

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

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 my phone is locked, notifications pop up, but you can't see who is calling/texting. Is that the case with iOS?

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.

call screening is great. Helps with spam calls. hold for me also useful but I use it less.

>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.

>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 drives me and other people away.

Is gender identity being "shoehorned" into every crevice of our lives, or are people just more comfortable expressing who they really are? And now that they are, people who didn't need to feel bad about expressing their identity don't always know how to handle it.

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

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 they ban nazi's and the alt-right, people know what they're getting into when they join. I don't see the issue, and I don't buy into "horseshoe theory" or the idea that far left and far right are just two sides of the same coin, because they're not.

You're hearing lots about late stage capitalism because of the times we're in.

You're hearing lots about gender identity because until recently in modern capitalist society it was dangerous for people who didn't fit traditional gender norms to express that openly.

>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."

you're mad a private organization doesn't want to be associated with nazism, conspiracy theories or alt-right nonsense?

Solene's blog is great overall

1990?! why that year specifically

what else do you want to do with your tablet?

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'm not sure an android tablet would even be getting that support.

my starbook arrived about a year after I purchased it, and was DOA.

>I tried looking at the Pixel for the Vanilla Android experience and long support, yet it seems like people are fighting battery life issues all the time.

my pixel has good battery life.....I know it's anecdotal but it's been fine.

I've always been an android user on smartphones. Was samsung in the past but now I have a pixel. I like the pixel and vanilla android experience overall. Android allows some freedom to customize, I like their call screening, and the wide choice of apps. Pixels are also starting to be supported for longer; maybe not as long as iphones but it's always been an android issue and they're finally starting to address it. Stability is there imo. I have all the apps I need to do what I do everyday but obviously everyone is different.

I own a variety of different hardware including apple products, but I'm not 100% reliant on their ecosystem, so I'm keeping the pixel for now.

>Also, couldn't find anything coming near the value of a baseline Macbook Air M1 as far as build quality, battery life, stability etc. is concerned.

Agreed

>How cool would it be if we had a great GUI for ZFS (snapshots, volume management, etc.)

I believe that was something built into the file manager in OpenSolaris, and then into illumos OS's. OpenIndiana has it in their file manager within their themed MATE desktop environment.