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BSDobelix commented on Laptop Support and Usability (LSU): July 2025 Report   github.com/FreeBSDFoundat... · Posted by u/grahamjperrin
grahamjperrin · 24 days ago
I have not yet needed a ZFS boot environment.

I'm considering alternatives. Not ZFSBootMenu in isolation. I'm in no rush.

BSDobelix · 22 days ago
>I'm in no rush.

Ahh now i get the point why you have no problems destroy your system with a simple pkg command ;)

BSDobelix commented on Laptop Support and Usability (LSU): July 2025 Report   github.com/FreeBSDFoundat... · Posted by u/grahamjperrin
grahamjperrin · 23 days ago
Yep, the coherence is a strong point.

Unfortunately, we now have a few people complaining about predictable, consistent behaviour with packaging that is coherent. The base system, FreeBSD, packaged.

The complaints are about the effect of wilful force.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned.

When I force something with my eyes shut (ignoring warnings), I do expect the unexpected as a result of my ignorance ;-)

BSDobelix · 22 days ago
>Maybe I'm old-fashioned.

No your not, even in the Sun-Solaris time they asked themself why rm should be able to delete /.

>The complaints are about the effect of wilful force.

Don't make a function no one uses (because it has no function) but is able destroy the system.

Compare it to a aircraft, shutdown your fuel has probably a emergency function, make a button to instantly destroy your aircraft has no real function nor will it ever be used (aka pkg remove -af).

>Unfortunately, we now have a few people complaining about predictable, consistent behaviour with packaging that is coherent.

That's not predictable but stupidity, try to remove all pkg/Application/Apps from MacOS, Windows, OpenBSD, NetBSD or Android...will the system boot or not? All those operating-systems make a clear distinction from the base-system to "apps" and the system should ALWAYS boot to a state where you can interact with it and so should FreeBSD.

There is not a single system (no OS and no living being) in this world wheres there is a function to destroy itself would not be called a error (the worst possible one)

But hey lets tell Linus (from Linus tech-tips, a Linux beginner) it's your fault because you forgot to read 100 lines, what a wannabe elitist think, there are ZERO point's, that a system should be able to make itself not booting anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4L8Oci_2Bs

BSDobelix commented on The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025   techradar.com/computing/c... · Posted by u/saubeidl
ThePowerOfFuet · a month ago
>How Denmark forced young women in Greenland to get IUDs

And who still take away the babies of Greenlandic mothers in Denmark.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jun/29/controv...

BSDobelix · a month ago
Parenting test.....this is disgusting, thanks for the update.
BSDobelix commented on Pkgbase Removes FreeBSD Base System Feature   lists.freebsd.org/archive... · Posted by u/vermaden
BSDobelix · a month ago
I would really like to have those pkg's and the programm (pkg) separated, for example:

For the system the program "pkgs" ("s" for system) can write to /bin /sbin etc, and can only install/remove .pkgs (system packages)

For port's (can only write to /usr/local) pkg and

.pkg

With that we can have the same separation as we have now, for me that's a big plus on the BSD side of things. BTW Windows, Android and MACOS have some kind of that separation too.

pkg delete -af removes all "port" pkg's

pkgs delete (has no option -a but options like IDS from freebsd-update where every installable file IN the package (a *.pkgs) has a checksum instead just the pkg itself)

Drivers/Firmware will then have to move to pkgs, also we can have different groups for maintaining the system and port (root/wheel for pkgs and operator for pkg)

Also packaging error's in port packages cannot damage your system.

BSDobelix commented on The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025   techradar.com/computing/c... · Posted by u/saubeidl
brabel · a month ago
> Everyone looking to Denmark as a model state should beware what happens when you have a population with such high trust in its government: the roots of autocracy are allowed to grow unfettered.

Denmark is currently one of the nicest places you can find in the world. If that’s what happens when you trust the government then sign me up!

PS. I know the situation can quickly deteriorate if you’re not constantly monitoring what the government does and agree with OP on that. Just thought it was incredibly naive to try to make the point that this can lead to an autocracy while showing one of the most well functioning democracies in the world. The USA seems like a much better example, and even then compared to most countries in the world, as you can see by the amount of people trying to move there, it’s still a pretty damn nice place to go.

BSDobelix · a month ago
>If that’s what happens when you trust the government then sign me up!

Like that?

https://cphpost.dk/2024-05-05/news/climate/danish-companies-...

>>Danish companies breach EU law, dump toxic waste into sea – Environment Ministry waves it through

Or that?

https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/nordic-waste-1

>>The Nordic Waste landslide scandal in Denmark

Maybe how about that? (50 years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K--KsfrEhPI

>>How Denmark forced young women in Greenland to get IUDs

BSDobelix commented on The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025   techradar.com/computing/c... · Posted by u/saubeidl
azalemeth · a month ago
Denmark is very liberal in some ways but very much not in others. MitID -- digital id-- is a gateway to everything and is very much gated in terms of access; it took me months to sort out. It's a crime to not tell the state where you live, or to have too many people living in your house (I'd love to know what happens if you give birth on a "full" house -- is there a grace period, or do you have to move?). The work laptop I have been issued with is filled with invasive spyware that no British university employee would tolerate, and it is run (very well) as a benign dictatorship. You can't get a phone SIM card without personal registration. The tax agency know exactly to the øre how much money you received and what you spent it on in a given year as basically every transaction is recorded.

I'm not complaining that much about it -- you have a fantastic social security system, low inequality, high pay and high taxes, leading to a happy and well educated population and great food (no upf!) -- but it is a vision of the 1960s nanny state that really does think it knowd best.

BSDobelix · a month ago
>>Denmark is very liberal in some ways

True like not banning bestiality until 2015....

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-32411241

BSDobelix commented on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google   reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/Y... · Posted by u/cft
kubb · a month ago
I wouldn’t get labeled racist by anyone serious and I certainly wouldn’t get any trouble from the law. Try flagging my comment and see if it gets removed.
BSDobelix · a month ago
>I certainly wouldn’t get any trouble from the law. Try flagging my comment and see if it gets removed.

That makes no sense...at all.

BSDobelix commented on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google   reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/Y... · Posted by u/cft
imtringued · a month ago
The thing is the "I know the code you're using" could be entirely made up in the head of the judge/prosecutor with the person being accused of speaking in codes not even having the slightest clue about what the hell the judge/prosecutor is on about.
BSDobelix · a month ago
Exactly, or even let the press believe that the "ok" hand gesture is actually a secret "white power sign."

Proudly made up by Anonymous aka 4chan ;)

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/764728163/the-ok-hand-gesture...

BSDobelix commented on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google   reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/Y... · Posted by u/cft
kubb · a month ago
That’s just false. Hate speech is (simplifying) when you blame a group of people for everything that is bad in the world, and the only thing that group can do to appease you is to cease to exist.

You know like the Nazis and the Jews.

BSDobelix · a month ago
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/hate-...

>>public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence toward a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation (= the fact of being gay, etc.)

BSDobelix commented on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google   reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/Y... · Posted by u/cft
kubb · a month ago
Sure, people are being put jail for saying kiwis are better than mangoes. This is an accurate description of what is going on.
BSDobelix · a month ago
>>kiwis are better than mangoes

With that exact sentence, you could be labeled a racist because I know the code you're using. What YOU really mean is that New Zealanders are better than South Asians.

See the problem?

u/BSDobelix

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