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Comment · 5 years ago
>Only if you use the time saved to write more data than you would have with a slower drive

Well, NVMe SSDs do get quite hot due to much higher data transfer speeds, and higher temperatures lead to faster flash memory degradation, although I have no idea how important it is in practice (probably on the order of an SSD dying in 10 years instead of 20)

Comment · 5 years ago
FWIW I've been pretty happy with Senseair S8 0053 for my DIY stations. They're relatively expensive though.

Not affiliated in any way.

Comment · 5 years ago
> co2 and pm should both go down with windows open.

Very much depends on where you live. I have a few DIY air quality stations with data being piped to Grafana. I just looked at the latest data, the average outside PM level for the past 5 months has been around 100 µg/m³, while inside it's around 10 µg/m³.

This spring happens to be pretty windy and this skews the outside levels down, otherwise the ratio would be much worse.

Comment · 5 years ago
You'll be waiting on that gas station for hours for the payment to go through.
Comment · 5 years ago
What else did you expect on a ~~hacker's~~ founder's site? Make a billion and retire before hitting 20, that's the goal.
Comment · 5 years ago
Where are the exploits for TempleOS? Come to think of it, where are the users, and where do most security researchers direct their attention to?
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm doing this also, and for the same reason.

>It's not uncommon that zooming will make the text smaller

At least in Firefox you can enforce the minimum font size through settings without using any third-party plugins or custom themes (look in about:preferences → "minimum font size"). I have it set to something like 16 or 18.

This doesn't fix the actual problem, but I gave up on trying to change the world a long time ago.

Comment · 5 years ago
>Btrfs is probably never the right decision

And you're posting anti-btrfs FUD.

https://lwn.net/Articles/824855/

https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/btrfs/docs/btrfs-facebo...

Even if it's the only deployment in the world, it's more than "never". They provide strong technical reasons for using it.

Comment · 5 years ago
What? They ship prebuilt zfs modules along with the kernel.

  # dpkg -L "linux-modules-$(uname -r)" | grep zfs.ko
  /lib/modules/5.4.0-70-generic/kernel/zfs/zfs.ko
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These are all beta images.
Comment · 5 years ago
So? Do you think filesystem metadata is stored in a magical pixie cloud, or on the same unreliable physical hardware where it can easily get corrupted, especially after a crash or an unexpected power loss?

I posted this link here already:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/jaffer

f2fs (at least in its state a couple of years ago) is/was a prime example of how a filesystem can get into a barely working state with massive amounts of data and metadata corruption, and not even notice it.

God I love this site. In case of a minor disagreement with someone don't even bother to think, just press "downvote".

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