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vermadenon X11 Universal File Opener and XDG Mess

Fedora 34 is as bleeding edge desktop as it can be.

Maybe you have more recent xdg-utils version?

I run 1.1.3 here.

vermadenon X11 Universal File Opener and XDG Mess

Thanks - will look into that.

vermadenon X11 Universal File Opener and XDG Mess

Thanks - I will check that out.

vermadenon X11 Universal File Opener and XDG Mess

I like that (browser).

Will definitely dig into it to either use it directly or at least try to implement it in mine see.sh.

Also IMHO you should add short 'youtu.be' regex handler :)

Regards.

vermadenon X11 Universal File Opener and XDG Mess

Thanks.

I use BROWSER environment variable for that.

It seems to even override XDG settings.

    % xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox.sh.desktop
    xdg-settings: $BROWSER is set and can't be changed with xdg-settings
    
    % echo ${BROWSER}
    firefox

Hope that helps.

EDIT: You also got me nice idea - to add http(s):// and ftp:// support for mine see.sh opener :)

vermadenon The Framework Laptop

So its now innovative to get back to 2010 and re-create old ThinkPad laptop with unusable 'island' keyboard? :)

vermadenon System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code

Thank You for showing me these ... maybe I will be forced to get FrankenPad instead :)

Cheers.

vermadenon System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code

I wonder when ThinkPad 25 will start to show on EBAY or other places in normal prices ... currently its almost the same as for new one ...

vermadenon System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard with Open Source Code

I am currently compatible with two kinds of keyboards.

- ThinkPad 7-row laptop ANSI keyboard (like in T420)

- 87 keys ANSI keyboard (does not have to be mechanical) [1]

All other keyboard layouts literally does not exist for me - not matter how 'hackable' or 'open source' or configurable they are ...

[1] https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/images/products/large_9...

vermadenon Hello system, a FreeBSD-based OS designed to resemble Mac

No icons on the desktop at elementary.

vermadenon FreeBSD 13.0 Beta1 Now Available

About that arm64/aarch64 TIER 1 case ...

This will kinda help you:

https://up.bsd.lv/

Description from the page itself:

up.bsd.lv is a proof-of-concept of binary updates using freebsd-update(8) for FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT and 12-STABLE to facilitate the exhaustive testing of FreeBSD and the bhyve hypervisor and OpenZFS 2.0, and to help elevate ARM64 to Tier 1 status. Updates are based on the SVN revisions of official FreeBSD Release Engineering weekly snapshots.

Features:

- Kernels are built with the GENERIC-NODEBUG configuration file

- /etc/freebsd-update.conf is modified to use up.bsd.lv

- /usr/sbin/freebsd-update is modified to "xargs" parallel phttpget (Thank you Allan Jude)

- freebsd-update(8) does not output to the $PAGER

Hope that helps.

vermadenon Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

180 comments and not a single one that mentions proper diet and calories intake balance along with needed amount of proteins to build these muscles ... that does not promise good results not matter how many hours you will spend making these exercises ...

Also 7-8 hours of good quality sleep is needed every day for regeneration.

Of course if you currently do nothing at all and will start doing these then you will grow 'some' muscles but forget about looking like the ones on Men's Health cover ...

It would be great if this MuscleWiki will also include a calculator/generator for current age/weight a diet that will help build and sustain these muscles :)

vermadenon FreeBSD 2020 Q4 Status Report

Yep, even documented it:

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/freebsd-desktop/

vermadenon FreeBSD 2020 Q4 Status Report

Here is the 'HOWTO' for it:

https://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/nfs-over-tls-setup.txt

vermadenon GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

Similar situation with ElementaryOS not having icons on the desktop ... or many other Linux 'desktop oriented' distributions without icons on the desktop.

vermadenon Virtualize Your Network on FreeBSD with VNET

Thanks.

vermadenon Virtualize Your Network on FreeBSD with VNET

I got a chance to use FreeBSD in such 'serious' case:

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/freebsd-enterprise...

... I recently added Jails there with Minio inside in each of those jails to serve S3 storage.

Works like a charm.

vermadenon Running BSDs on AMD Ryzen 5000 Series – FreeBSD/Linux Benchmarks

Try BastilleBSD - https://bastillebsd.org/ - which uses FreeBSD Jails and offers templates/images for many use cases - https://gitlab.com/bastillebsd-templates

vermadenon Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?

FreeBSD.

vermadenon FreeBSD Desktop – Part 3 – X11 Window System

Only this is needed:

https://twitter.com/vermaden/status/1317864099053785090

vermadenon FreeBSD Desktop – Part 3 – X11 Window System

I used 'generator' from here: http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi?text=vermaden

vermadenon FreeBSD Desktop – Part 3 – X11 Window System

I just tried to start X11 on FreeBSD 12.2 with all these configs removed and it started with accelerated graphics.

Only Synaptics touchpad had 'tap to click' disabled.

I create these configs to be sure that X11 will start the way I want it to start, not that all of it is needed.

vermadenon FreeBSD Desktop – Part 3 – X11 Window System

2018 is indeed the date of the 'original' post but the later adde UPDATES are from other dates. For example UPDATE 4 is from today. Maybe I should also add the date to that 'UPDATES'? :)

vermadenon FreeBSD Desktop – Part 3 – X11 Window System

There are also 'zero configuration' FreeBSD based systems like GhostBSD or NomadBSD. You should try them instead if you want Ubuntu-like experience.

vermadenon Unbound DNS Blacklist

Thanks for pointing this out, I will dig more into this.

vermadenon Transitioning from Docker to Podman

Red Hat deprecated BTRFS in its products (and does not have anything like ZFS).

Its focuses on XFS from 1993.

Its Stratis idea is just a joke comparing to what ZFS is.

They should finally admin (like Canonical) that OpenZFS is the way of future filesystem for now.

Linux world should put their religion (GPL) aside here.

Besides above filesystem 'issue' the PulseAudio, systemd and SELinux are not hated without reason ... many people just 'love' what Lenny has to offer.

vermadenon Moving from Macbook to Linux

For a painless start with moving from Mac/Apple to Linux I would suggest Ubuntu Mate on ZFS install with Cupertino layout.

Example here:

https://www.bitblokes.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/01_cuper...

I would suggest ElementaryOS but they still haven't find a way to provide icons on the desktop.

vermadenon An Introduction to ZFS

That depends what is your use case.

I use two 5TB 2.5 SMR drives in ZFS mirror:

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/silent-fanless-fre...

These drives can slow down to 30-40 MB/s when filled to 80% or more but I use that storage over WiFi which is at most 11-12MB/s which means the SMR problem does not exist for me.

If I would be using that storage over LAN the 30-40 MB/s in 'WORST CASE' is also not bad considering that maximum real life LAN speed over gigabit network is about 80-90 MB/s.

Its also not possible to get non-SMR large 2.5 drives. I use 2.5 drives as they are silent and they need very small amount of power comparing to 3.5 drives.

vermadenon An Introduction to ZFS

Not sure if it will directly help you but can help in indirectly.

This is 1080 TB (in 12 TB disks) in one server under ZFS:

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/freebsd-enterprise...

For 100 TB you would get smaller server, like 2U with 12 slots filled with 10/12/14 TB disks for your 'usable' 100 TB space.

For more ZFS and/or FreeBSD storage options check this:

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/02/12/freebsd-enterprise...

Hope that helps.

Regards.