KaiXin

https://snac.bsd.cafe/kaixin

The nickname KaiXin I am using actually is Pinyin for Chinese 开心, which means being happy or glad, or happiness.

NativeLanguage lang: Chinese
Language lang: English
Work Job: Research
Field Field: Medical

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NIP-05 Address

kaixin_at_snac.bsd.cafe@momostr.pink

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2026-02-02 17:07:19 UTC

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for Devuan

2026-01-22 21:56:15 UTC

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Yes true. While in the specific case of Xlibre, it provides neither base system components nor kmod modules, meaning the only thing is pkg/ports.
CC @npub1zry…q8uq @npub17th…w0jm

2026-01-22 17:35:03 UTC

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I read it as "First task: smelly day, accomplished"

2026-01-22 15:18:32 UTC

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On your website, no matter where you are currently, when clicking upper right menu and switching language to English, you go back to homepage, rendering viewing any other page in English impossible

2026-01-22 05:55:45 UTC

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what does the packagemean here and what is the distinction please? I thought package is a more general term while ports in FreeBSD means some scripts and utilities to make a package compile for FreeBSD. The package I will understand as a complied binary from pkg, which is produced from ports getting compiled, no? Thanks!

2026-01-21 01:55:47 UTC

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Thanks very much! I think I got it. Yes I had to delete SMTP account and add back using POP instead. And there is a local copy of all mails in one Inbox text file, that's good. Only little remaining issue is that even I have downloaded all of the inbox locally, the copy in Inbox when I check online is still there, not deleted. But I guess I can just safely delete all since I know I have a local copy now.

2026-01-20 23:18:40 UTC

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Thanks for the advice. I have Thunderbird but I set it to IMAP. I can set to POP3 but I think: 1. There is no bulk download mode? All emails will still be separately files? 2. The downloaded copy will be in the Thunderbird dataset and will only be loadable again with Thunderbird? I was thinking about a flat text copy so that I can grep/search when needed.

2026-01-20 19:24:51 UTC

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Tried with #Thunderbird too, it simply download every single email as a eml file separately, meaning I will get ~10K files if it succeed!

2026-01-20 19:22:54 UTC

#AskFedi : How to bulk download all emails in inbox from #Yahoo email? I confess, I do not have a good habit of archiving and backing-up my emails. Now my inbox is booming and reaching ~10k emails since I have subscribed to a few mail lists. I do have #Alpine set up locally on my laptop to read them once in a while. I tried Select All and Save in Alpine however it is too slow and easily fail simply because it took so long that remote server would kill the connection.
#FOSS #Unix #Linux

2026-01-17 23:16:23 UTC

Also remotely reminds me of the #Lumina desktop environment although it is totally different case

2026-01-17 23:09:38 UTC

I always was interested in and kept my eye out for the #Bodhi #Linux, mainly because they use the different and characteristic #Enlightenment #WM. #E17 was great when I tried it on bare metal and in #VM. I knew their development was not the fastest but it was not necessarily an issue since it was stable and smooth to use. It was kinda mixed feeling when I knew they had to fork and develop the the #Moksha.
[Introducing Moksha Desktop](https://mokshadesktop.github.io/Hello-World/ )

2026-01-17 19:51:16 UTC

Having been using #Debian as daily desktop operating system but I never thought about this. Remotely remind me of the #pkgbase arguement in #FreeBSD
[Debian's AWKward essential set](https://lwn.net/Articles/1019898/ )
#Linux #Unix #BSD #AWK #FOSS

2026-01-17 06:10:09 UTC

Was randomly browsing and it occurred to me when I saw mention of #VoidLinux that since it offers a #musl flavor and not fork, it actually technically is Void #Linux without the #GNU bit if you choo6to use a musl-based version? Interesting!

2026-01-05 04:41:14 UTC

Came across Tara's series blogs of her Hermit project, where she built a minimal #FreeBSD -base system for her writing. A good reading for bed time.
https://www.tara.sh/posts/2024/2024-04-18_hermit_summary/
#BSD #RunBSD #FOSS #Unix #minimalism

2025-07-09 04:38:06 UTC

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Indeed, this is definitely another "no go" for me

2025-07-09 03:16:08 UTC

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are you saying that X11 forwarding like function is impossible for #Wayland? I now feel lucky I didn't convert

2025-07-09 00:24:47 UTC

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Looking great! PR to their repo, this probaby would make it into distros that already adopted #Xibre

2025-07-08 03:50:44 UTC

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I mean I did try upgrading from 13.2 to 14.3 just by freebsd-update a few days ago in a #vm. It went well. Though it was a very minimal setting environment, I didn't got many packages installed on the VM

2025-07-08 03:48:00 UTC

[@jaypatelani@bsd.network](https://bsd.network/users/jaypatelani ) I have been using #Debian for years and #Linux even longer for that matter, but I never used login.conf and I don't have it in my home directory right now. What are some great examples to use it?

2025-07-08 02:19:20 UTC

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kinda make sense. For using #vim registers I learned a trick to use them as "a "b and then "z "y as 1 2 3 and 4😂

2025-07-07 23:38:39 UTC

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but why is it one two three four five eight 😂

2025-07-07 17:06:25 UTC

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spotted the workspace indicators are in Chinese 😂

2025-07-06 17:57:18 UTC

What a big surprise! I just found out that #OpenBSD suspend to S3 and wake up worked flawlessly on my #ThinkPad T470S. #X with good old #Fvwm and network with WiFi worked fine after wakeup. Fn function keys for backlight. I previously tested #FreeBSD and everything was working great too which is no surprise at all. I don't know if it's because tp had better support for #Unix or because devs tend to use tp thus support them at greater effort. Nevertheless, this is the best performance for the puffy and the beastie I have even seen on bare metal.
#RUNBSD #UseBSD #BSD #FOSS

2025-07-06 05:58:35 UTC

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what? I thought #xfce was not ready for #wayland yet

2025-07-06 01:46:53 UTC

[@gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church](https://pleroma.m68k.church/users/gorplop ) probably not using a fast mirror. Could try with DVD and disable network during installation

2025-06-18 04:12:52 UTC

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Thanks I am Ctrl-Ting all the time😀

2025-06-18 03:05:42 UTC

Pilot compiling with #poudriere for #FreeBSD #ports went well! It did seem a bit complicated to configure at first but sing ports made easy with #poudriere and #jail. It was so simple and straightforward to actually run #poudriere that I secretly thought it took out all the fun of seeing scrolling screens of compling! #BSD #Unix #UseBSD #RunBSD #FOSS
https://snac.bsd.cafe/kaixin/s/post-ce6dbc9c04f82148e20b157c5a9433ab.png

2025-06-17 21:51:25 UTC

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Yes I had problems before with WiFi too before and had to set country code thingy, which I didn't even understand though I actually just worked.
CC: @npub1ef5…gcpc

2025-06-17 21:48:19 UTC

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I am not sure. I see many posts from AodeRelay, I always assume they come from the hashtags and also people I follow.

2025-06-17 13:58:16 UTC

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I think if you don't click anything in the hashtags under "Private tab, that's you main feed.

2025-06-17 03:03:35 UTC

Hey fedi friends, what are the differences in USES and config options listed at #freshports for a #FreeBSD #port? I am familiar with USE in #Gentoo #Linux, which seem to be the config options here? For #Gentoo it is very common to use different USE settings for a packages, but for #FreeBSD I read from porter's handbook there are not many USE items and they looked different from the term in #Gentoo. I am still trying to wrap my head around what is happening that whenever I try to build a port, like #vim or #git in tiny flavors, I constantly noticed #Perl #Bash #lua #Rust #Python and all other seemingly unrelated stuff get pulled in. #BSD #RunBSD #Unix #FOSS

2025-06-16 17:53:28 UTC

#Xorg , its fork and #Wayland topic also popped up in a #OpenBSD list
'Future of Xenocara' - MARC
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=174999215709322&w=2

2025-06-16 14:43:40 UTC

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Thanks for the example, that's extremely helpful!

2025-06-15 20:51:09 UTC

Now after successfully building and loading drm-61-kmod for #FreeBSD using #ports, I am building the #xorg mininal port. Thanks all fedi friends for your help. #BSD #Unix #RunBSD #UseBSD #FOSS

2025-06-15 18:21:17 UTC

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Thanks! I guess I've skipped exmaples too fast
CC: @npub1gu7…a0aj

2025-06-15 17:58:33 UTC

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Thanks for the explanation. Where are these options documented? I checked pkg, make.conf and make man pages and did not find it. I only read it in FreeBSD forum posts.
CC: @npub1gu7…a0aj

2025-06-15 15:38:42 UTC

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Thanks for pointing out! I don't think make config provides flavor settings though. For now I can see lite, tiny and such if I run make -V FLAVORS in devel/git. That's enough for make different flavors.

2025-06-15 15:34:13 UTC

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Yes #FreeBSD ports use #TUI based config tool to switch on and off flags, which I think is also achievable from command line or system-wide config files.

2025-06-15 02:37:17 UTC

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I barely received any notifications from #Moshidan but I am using everyday. Is that expected? I just checked I granted notification access and allowed background running in battery settings too.

2025-06-14 13:31:22 UTC

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thanks for suggestions. I will try ports management tools!

2025-06-14 13:30:25 UTC

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I alway use it before but I didn't find it in #ports. I think flavored ports needed extra parameters to build that I was aware of.

2025-06-14 13:28:28 UTC

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I didn't have anything beyond base installed before git. I downloaded ports.tar from FreeBSD download site directly

2025-06-14 04:19:11 UTC

I am probably using #FreeBSD #ports wrong because I first try to install #git so that I can git clone ports tree from git source tree. The next thing I know #bash #Python and #Ruby are being compiled...🫣
#BSD #Unix #UseBSD #RunBSD

2025-06-14 03:36:36 UTC

I am finally trying out #ports on #FreeBSD . Thanks to #ZFS and boot environment feature I am not that afraid of poking around a bit. Watching screens of compiling outputs reminds me of my old days with #Gentoo #Linux many years ago.
#BSD #RunBSD #Unix #FOSS #UseBSD
https://snac.bsd.cafe/kaixin/s/post-c3c86465a94e7e49e5f812dbe1431e5c.jpg

2025-06-12 04:14:54 UTC

Also I noticed #OpenBSD booted really fast from boot prompt to #xenodm. With 2GB of RAM and 2 cores, it seemed to boot a lot faster than another #FreeBSD VM with the same specs.
#BSD #UseBSD #RunBSD #unix #FOSS

2025-06-12 04:08:59 UTC

I just upgraded #OpenBSD from 7.1 all the way up to 7.7 one release at a time in a #KVM VM running on my laptop #Debian. At first #tcsh and #vim were giving coredumps. I realized I did not even run #pkg_add even once so I did a doas pkg_add -u. After that all is fine and everything was like before. #OpenBSD is truely awesome!
#BSD #UseBSD $RunBSD #unix #FOSS

2025-06-11 18:00:30 UTC

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I did not know that either. I thought I was good if I had the repo added and a upgrade would automatically finish the job. But I had to uninstall kmod and then reinstall from the kmod repo to get job done. Little bit lack of straightforward but much simpler than compiling from ports or just wait for R14.2 to EOL though.

2025-06-11 16:56:36 UTC

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Check if it's the kmod and kernel versions mismatch issue. If so try this repo :
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2025-May/000190.html

2025-06-11 14:39:06 UTC

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I think #X11 is all good as long as I stay away from #Nvidia stuff. #wayland on the other way will only be good when I stay with #Gnome or #KDE and willing to spend some time. Last time I tried #wayland was #labwc on #FreeBSD , was hard but many of my little tools wouldn't work without tinkering.

2025-06-11 14:33:55 UTC

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say it's worse version of #Windows 8 would be fair

2025-06-11 14:02:49 UTC

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#systemd drama strikes back

2025-06-11 14:01:52 UTC

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I editted after posting out, seems it get screwed up

2025-06-11 03:18:04 UTC

So basically Redhat and Ubuntu are really pushing this....
Canonical Confirms Ubuntu 25.10 Will Drop Support For GNOME On X.Org - Phoronix
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-No-GNOME-X.Org

2025-06-08 14:56:37 UTC

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Solved! Turns out I have to uninstall the kmod packages and then reinstall for pkg to pull from the kmod repo. I thought kmod packages would be newer builds so get upgraded automatically. I will look into the priority paprameter you are using. Thanks!

2025-06-08 05:16:11 UTC

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I do have it enabled but I am not getting any updates. Please see my reply above. Maybe packages haven't got built for 14.3 for now.

2025-06-08 04:48:17 UTC

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Thanks for the hint anyways. I almost forgot the kmod repo existence already. Lets's wait a few days and check again then.

2025-06-08 04:21:20 UTC

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Thanks for the hint! Is there a catch somewhere I am not aware of? I had kmod quarterly mirror enabled but I am running latest branch actually. I thought changing to kmod_latest_3 followed by pkg update + upgrade would provide kmod upgrade for me. But I am not getting any updates.

2025-06-08 02:27:37 UTC

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Thanks. I just #bectl activated my backup R142p3 boot enviroment and now I am fine. I am only using pkg though so I guess I will wait till pkg get built for R14.3. This probably is a good time for me to learn #FreeBSD #ports.

2025-06-08 01:59:26 UTC

Damn! I think I forgot about the drm-kmod and #FreeBSD release version mismatch thingy again! Upgraded to 14.3-RELEASE now and it's refusing to load. #BSD #RunBSD

2025-06-07 23:59:32 UTC

Fosstodon's drama reveals a much deeper Mastodon problem
https://thelibre.news/fosstodons-drama-reveals-a-much-deeper-mastodon-problem/

2025-06-07 05:51:23 UTC

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Same person?
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/11/linus_torvalds_vaccine_smackdown/
@npub188s…50gr @npub1wft…s0mg

2025-05-08 18:31:10 UTC

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#FreeBSD is my choice, because of #ZFS and better graphics support

2025-05-07 23:11:26 UTC

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impressive!

2025-05-07 14:12:58 UTC

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Tested the binary on Debian sid, worked fine for a few web pages I tried, including YouTube