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[DrYak]

Regarding speeds on RPi3 :
- there's the possibility to overclock and ask the MMC bus to operate at 100Mhz (normal speed at which higher-speed SD...

[DrYak]

On the other hand, Video Core runs currently a closed source firmware that handle all the graphics.

Saying that you have an opensource VC...

[DrYak]

Been there, done that.
- I'm using an old re-purposed Raspberry Pi 1 (B+, v1.2) because I really don't need more bandwidth for the file sharing...

[DrYak]

You're confusing GPL versions. GPLv2 is the one that has patent provisions. That was part of the motivations that lead to version 2 being written....

[DrYak]

In the meantime, a possible stop-gag solution, is to use the "btrfs filesystem defragment" with the "-c" parameter to switch the compression...

[DrYak]

You can still do basic chatting over XMPP with the Google network.



I suspect that this is due to the much more vibrant community...

[DrYak]

VP9 *was indeed* supposed to be the answer to h265.

VP10 was supposed to be the answer to whatever comes next.
Combined with Xiph's...

[DrYak]

which by now is progressively becoming only the drivers, as less software is actually run locally and more software is running on server/cloud and accessed...

[DrYak]

"Dear Motion Picture Expert Group (and various associated patent-trolling pools), this is where you all die"



And...

[DrYak]

Well, for a destructive test, only BTRFS and ZFS make sense (and BcacheFS, one day, once the relevant feature are finished being developed), because these...

[DrYak]

Yup, there's no Linux in WSL except in the name.
It's literally GNU/Windows or GNU/NT-Kernel. (The whole point of why NT has the capability to use...

[DrYak]

I think you're confusing with "lz4hc", the special mode of lz4 that's much slower, but does a much more thorough search and thus produce smaller...

[DrYak]

Beside:
- I would vote too for ZFS being tested alongside each btrfs benchmark (for reference, specially since both target the same feature set)....

[DrYak]

The thing is that while writing compressed data, you have no guarantee that the new update 128kblock will compress into the same size as the old one,...