Hawk

Hawk , 28 days ago

HFS+ has a different features set than NTFS or ext4, Apple elect to store metadata that way.

I would imagine modern FS like ZFS or btrfs could benefit from doing something similar but nobody has chosen to implement something like that in that way.

Hawk , 28 days ago

I gotcha:

• Btrfs
  • BTree File System
    • A Copy on White file system that supports snapshots, supported mostly by
• ZFS
  • Zetabyte File System
    • Copy on Write File System. Less flexible than BTRFS but generally more robust and stable. Better compression in my experience than BTRFS. Out of Kernel Linux support and native FreeBSD.
• HFS+
  • what Mac uses, I have no clue about this. some Copy on Write stuff.
• NTFS
  • Windows File System
  • From what I know, no compression or COW
  • In my experience less stable than ext4/ZFS but maybe it's better nowadays.

Hawk , 28 days ago

Well that's good to know because I had some terrible luck with it about a decade ago. Although I don't think I would go back to windows, I just don't need it for work anymore and it's become far too complex.

I've also had pretty bad luck with BTRFS though, although it seems to have improved a lot in the past 3 years that I've been using it.

ZFS would be good but having to rebuild the kernel module is a pain in the ass because when it fails to build you're unbootable (on root). I also don't like how clones are dependant on parents, requires a lot of forethought when you're trying to create a reproducible build on eg Gentoo.

Hawk , 2 months ago

Vikings and org-mode.

Org-mode does not have an API but I’ve separated out multiple files and synced via git to moderate success with my gf. No API but maybe with gitea and orgize you could do something?

Hawk , 2 months ago

I cannot.

Endeavour OS is great but it’s just arch.

Gentoo with oddlama/gentoo-install is nice too.

Hawk , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

It’s not too bad. I very rarely recompile everything from scratch and after I do that I just create a snapshot with btrfs. Are usually then chroot into that snapshot and compile everything natively overnight for that 5% Theoretical performance boost.

Most recently I took that snapshot and then used btrfs send to adapt it to a laptop as well and that worked quite well actually.

Everything I install is typically through flatpack or distro box just like silver blue. This means install times are pretty much okay but I have a huge amount of flexibility in the way the system works

Also heaps of binary packages as well, so that’s not too bad. The binary packages much slower than both arch and Alpine but not a lot slower than for example Fedora.

Hawk , 3 months ago

It’s common practice to cut the y axis, did you guys not cover that in visualisation?

Hawk , 3 months ago

They both kind of suck in their own way.

If you want to things to run at startup and you’re not on systemd, rootless docker is probably easier.

Otherwise podman is mostly fine but be careful of native overlay if you’re not on BTRFS, this causes some pretty long build times.

Hawk , 3 months ago

Just install endeavourOS or something.

There’s a learning curve and a few games will break, but it is a much less hostile environment.

Hawk , 5 months ago

Well this isn’t quite true, automation and computers have replaced many jobs. They just haven’t been skilled labour.

Now AI is catching up with skilled labour, whether it’s CNNs for loss prevention, LSTM/1DCNN for anomaly detection in Time Series (e.g. biosignal, finance) or more recently llms explaining and adapting code.

In one way or another, that work, at least in part, would have been done by a person, even if it’s an intern for example.

Hawk , 8 months ago

Honestly, Switch to a basic Linux distro and use docker directly.

I ran TrueNAS for a while and it's just too complex and janky. I dropped back to void (for ZFS) and have a directory of compose files for radar/sonar, jellyfish, mediawiki, Lemmy etc.