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Using efibootmgr on FreeBSD
It seems to work, with the exception that -l switch expects path prefixed with device (for example -l nvd0p1:/efi/boot/bootx64.efi)
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How to perform freebsd-update from STABLE
Sometimes freebsd-update doesn’t want to update from -STABLE system. Error received would be Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors… 3 mirrors found.Fetching public key from update1.freebsd.org… failed.Fetching public key from update2.freebsd.org… failed.Fetching public key from dualstack.aws.update.freebsd.org… failed.No mirrors remaining, giving up. Way to fix this error is to force freebsd-update to treat -STABLE the same way as…
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How to slow down mouse wheel in Firefox
This works in v91 – set mousewheel.system_scroll_override.enabled to false in about:config
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How to recover lost email accounts in Thunderbird
This is how to handle situation when Thunderbird wants to do set up from scratch after it crashed. First locate profile folder – you can do that in Thunderbird by using Help -> More troubleshooting information. Once you locate this folder looks for prefs.js and possibly prefs-1.js, prefs-2.js etc.
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Record screen capture with audio in FreeBSD with ffmpeg
This command can be used: ffmpeg -video_size 1920×1080 -framerate 25 -f x11grab -i :0.0+0,0 -f oss -i /dev/dsp5.0 -filter:a “asetpts=N/SR/TB” output.mp4 Command above assumes that microphone is at /dev/dsp5.0 (you can check that with cat /dev/sndstat), and you can adjust microphone volume with mixer -f /dev/mixer5 mic 100.
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How to show hardware information in FreeBSD
Use dmidecode (It is in /usr/ports/sysutils/dmidecode).