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[ermo]

Having experimented with this on an old Core 2 Quad Q9400, my personal experience is that lz4 makes an even bigger difference on systems with less oomph...

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I think this is THE most salient point: Everything and anything Microsoft does that involves Open Source should be considered an on-ramp for buying their...

[ermo]

It's weird to see how intel reacts to no longer having the favoured and accepted fastest chips across the entire spectrum (the 9900K is still faster in...

[ermo]

I recently tried switching to emacs + spacemacs with the ivy completion layer instead of the default helm layer and found myself liking its ergonomics...

[ermo]

Meanwhile in the real world, the stuff that matters the most in the python ecosystem has already been ported to python3:

py3readiness.or...

[ermo]

Are you on an NVMe drive? And -- out of nothing but curiousity -- what is your usage scenario?...

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Depending on your kernel version, you might need to enable the multiqueue schedulers via the scsi_mod.use_blk_mq=1 kernel command line argument....

[ermo]

I don't know if you've read the relevant systemd github pull request with comments from the systemd and kernel I/O maintainers, but it seemed quite the...

[ermo]

In fairness, it is my impression that he banned you for continually being a nuisance in the eyes of a not insignificant amount of members? Perhaps the...

[ermo]

I'm pretty pleased with Xfce-4.14 so far. Would definitely recommend it.

I use it with the (IMHO excellent) Plano-theme and have replaced...

[ermo]

Let me just get this straight: System76 is one of the (very) few vendors who are completely honest about wanting to create vertical integration between...