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   by 555h 5y ago

   I recently got the Apple Magic Trackpad 2 for use on linux. I use it on the left side of my keyboard, so my right hand isn't taking all the RSI wear from using a mouse. Overall, it works very well. It's basically plug-and-play. I
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   by 555h 9y ago

   I've recently moved to an eyepieceless microscope, and it's really quite an improvement over traditional stereo eyepiece microscopes. They are made for SMD work and part inspection, and generally max out at 20x (which is plenty of
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   by 555h 9y ago

   The advantage is that you can get all the features you want, even though they aren't all available in one filesystem. In my case, I wanted a reliable filesystem, RAID1/mirror support, block-level checksumming, and full-disk encryp
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   by 555h 9y ago

   I haven't had any issues with performance, but then again my requirement was just "reasonable performance". I ran some quick benchmarks (data below). Obviously this is far from rigorous, but maybe it'll be useful. In pre
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   by 555h 9y ago

   You can probably achieve what you're looking for by stacking a few filesystems. For example, you could create a separate ZFS pool/vdev with a single full-disk zvol on each disk. Then use mdadm to create a RAID array of the zvols.