qalmakka

81 ms·

931.
by qalmakka 8y ago
Because Apple had significant stakes in MPEG-LA and VP8 and its descendants were a significant threat to its licensing revenues. Thankfully the HEVC fiasco and AV1 have forced them to accept that MPEG is heading towards irrelevance, but I d
932.
by qalmakka 8y ago
I have LZ4 compression enabled on ZFS, and not only it perceivably improves performances on slow drives (due to the lower amount of I/O), it saves actual storage space. An average OS install on hard drive is full of things such as exec
933.
by qalmakka 8y ago
I think the FreeBSD guys did not fully realize how linuxlator would be fundamental a few years back, so they never really fix it up. Which is a shame, because it kinda ruled out the advantage FreeBSD had with jails when the containerization
934.
by qalmakka 8y ago
I've been using ZoL git on Arch Linux (several systems and configurations) since 2017 without any significant issues. It's probably more stable than mainline Btrfs.
935.
by qalmakka 8y ago
What's the advantage of storage spaces compared with a software RAID solution such as ZFS's RAIDZ?
936.
by qalmakka 8y ago
NTFS holds up quite well when compared with more "traditional" filesystems such as XFS, ext4 and UFS (except the choppy I/O performance, but as someone else said above it might be more of an issue of the subsystems above it);
937.
by qalmakka 8y ago
This. They really need a newer, more modern filesystem, especially since Apple has done away with HFS+ and has introduced APFS. ReFS is really dead in the water, and ZFS would give them a powerful, battle-tested filesystem which they could
938.
by qalmakka 8y ago
No, it's not easier but it's vastly more convenient and flexible. You can encrypt each dataset with different keys, and ZFS allows you to unlock them on import or whenever you want to. You can send and receive them while encrypted
939.
by qalmakka 8y ago
I've been using it on Arch Linux since mid-2017, and it's amazing. Much easier and more flexible to set up than LUKS/GELI. I hope FreeBSD will get Datto's encryption soon when they switch to ZoF (their ZoL fork)
940.
by qalmakka 8y ago
I use ZoL and FreeBSD+ZFS almost on every single system I own, and it's as reliable as a filesystem can be. Btrfs and friends are still miles away from this level of reliability, imho. Heck even git snapshots of ZoL have never failed m
941.
by qalmakka 8y ago
Well, I must say, they're not really doing that good of a job. Btrfs is still largely less stable than even ZoL git snapshots in almost every possible way.
942.
by qalmakka 8y ago
I've been using ZoL-git with Datto's encryption since 2017 on my main systems. It's really really solid and makes the management of encrypted datasets a breeze (even send and receive are supported). Yes, probably is slightly
943.
by qalmakka 8y ago
Gmail web works perfectly for me with the most recent design, using Firefox 65 on Arch Linux. Are you sure your Firefox is up to date?
944.
This Firefox GTK+ bug is now 18 years old (from when it was still just Mozilla)(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
1 points by qalmakka 8y ago|0 comments
945.
by qalmakka 8y ago
It doesn't work on Firefox 65.0.1 on Arch Linux, but it works perfectly with exactly the same browser version on FreeBSD. I guess they are filtering everything that specifically says "Linux"
946.
by qalmakka 8y ago
The is no native XNU kext or bsd module AFAIK, so I guess it must be using the Go implementation underneath.
947.
by qalmakka 8y ago
They have ported their CLR, it's called .Net Core. If you need the legacy .Net Framework on macOS, Linux and the like, you still need Mono,which is not bad at all. It powered Xamarin and Unity for years.
948.
by qalmakka 8y ago
One of the most important things they should fix ASAP, IMHO, is how cumbersome it is to install and get up and running on Linux in general, it totally needs something like Rust's rustup before or first party support from major distros
949.
by qalmakka 8y ago
This. What is the point of using a higher level, garbage collected language instead of C++ or Rust if you're going to spend the same amount of time fighting against the VM or the Garbage collector to make it actually work the way you w
950.
by qalmakka 8y ago
I've been using every major os (but mostly GNU/Linux and FreeBSD as my main desktop systems since 2007), and I have to say that I do not share your experience. I've had the same Arch install since they have launched on x86_64
951.
by qalmakka 8y ago
It's a pity that Apple let Open Darwin die off, it definitely had a potential as a nice BSD platform.
952.
by qalmakka 8y ago
> non-NUMA Forgive my ignorance, but isn't a "non-NUMA" architecture just UMA?
953.
by qalmakka 8y ago
Everything embedded runs either Linux or Android (still Linux) nowadays.
954.
by qalmakka 8y ago
There is no way around it, IoT will never be feasible until companies start to take updates seriously. Slapping a fully upgradable, WiFi-enabled Linux-based firmware on appliances whose usable life spans several years if not decades (haven&
955.
by qalmakka 8y ago
People, don't comment before you read the whole article (and click on the survey on the bottom)...
956.
by qalmakka 8y ago
Things like these should make any nation ashamed of itself. This kind of pressure on a growing child can only destroy him or her, and it's no wonder why kids are killing themselves. It's like planting a ticking bomb in their heads
957.
by qalmakka 8y ago
"standard apt-get repository" is wrong in so many ways that I don't really know where to start correcting it.
958.
by qalmakka 8y ago
So it's mainly an iOS limitation? I don't understand why it shouldn't be possible to take the same route software like WINE or WSL have taken before on a less constrained OS like macOS.
959.
by qalmakka 8y ago
Does anyone know if this also supports LLDB? Or is it strictly tied to gdb? I happen to slightly prefer LLDB these days (mainly because its `list` instruction is much much saner)
960.
by qalmakka 8y ago
I'm always amazed by how Opus manages to utterly crush each one of its competing codecs. I'm also amazed by the fact that finally we have a widely supported free codec no MPEG-LA covered codec can compete with. Combined with AV1

More ›