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• Post #4023665

  I am not a technical user so this may seem like a silly question, #freebsd friends. I have a computer that has a Broadcom wireless chip. What I’ve read is that in FreeBSD, Broadcom drivers are generally less supported than Intel chipsets. Is this because of anything other than resource allocation? Is there anything specific with Broadcom stuff that makes them more difficult to work with? Follow up question, is there a driver bounty program that people could contribute to? Allocate some resourc...

• Post #3085532

  @rl_dane @cmccullough my solution, as a humanities major, is more humanities 😅 I don’t think it’s a perfect paradigm, but I think it is helpful in these cases to think of software as a tool driven by the mind of the human who designed it and the human who uses it. The major contributions of the Foss community were philosophical and, well, the expansion of the possibility space to prove it (software development) can be done a different way. You’ve got Steve Ballmer on one side who thinks you can...

• Post #3085531

  We have rebased our main production server to Debian in this last move. My bsd knowledge is not enough. Which is why I’m spinning up a small minitower server to serve a wiki I’m working on that WILL be based in #BSD. Any recommendations for flavor? My only previous experience is #FreeBSD

• Post #3003466

  The thing that’s great about posting is that it doesn’t matter

• Post #3003465

  I think a thoroughly post-modern perspective is an incredible asset for the Christian believer that is called to live and work outside of the church, with everyone else.

• Post #3003464

  So one of the things I never know when reading sci fi novels is whether the space ship on the cover is supposed to be the space ship occupied by the people in the book or just, like, a picture of a space ship. Either is fine, but please put a disclaimer in the front with the copyright information. #scifi #sciencefiction #reading #sff #space

• Post #3003463

  Normalize having a map of the starship in the front of science fiction novels like we have a map of the fantasy world in the front of a fantasy novel. #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #reading

• Post #3003462

  I’m a dangerous man when there’s 50 pages to go before I finish the book. #reading

• Post #3003461

  Would you say Dune is science fiction or space opera? #reading #scifi #dune #sff

• Post #1978717

  Oh look, social.coop raised the character limit to 1000 ☺️ thanks #admin

• Post #1978705

  “AI is taking your job” is exactly as untrue as “offshore workers are taking your job,” “immigrants are taking your job,” or “brown people are taking your job.” Management! Management took your job! And blamed someone else, because they’re cowardly by nature.