I know a guy who uses old rack mount servers as workstations and he gets that. I guess it's a good option if you like wearing hearing protection at your desk as he does.
That sort of thing seems like a good idea. There are X programs (and presumably Wayland programs) that do similar things (like web browsers stopping things when switching to a different tab or minimising the window).…
By default qtwayland5 is not installed, should this be considered a bug?
https://puri.sm/posts/my-first-year-of-librem-5-convergence/ The Purism CSO has been running a Librem 5 as his primary desktop PC for over a year. When Plasma was first released I was probably running hardware slower…
Web sites review phones based on weight. Phones are designed for review as a higher priority than being designed for use.
Do you know of a good web site explaining how this works? My Android phone used to kill my Jabber client all the time until I got to using Conversations which has a notification all the time which seems to be the way to…
My first Android phone was a Sony Ericsson Xperia x10i. With that phone I could go to sleep while playing music from the SD card and wake up 8 hours later with plenty of battery left. The same phone however would run…
All programs on the Librem5 appear to be in Debian packages and most of them seem to be identical to the ones in Debian. The document you cited has procedures for getting packages in PureOS independently of Debian, but…
It is thick for many reasons, having separate chips for security means a bigger motherboard, having a socket for a security chip, etc. But the battery is really big, much bigger than is common for modern phones.
The Librem5 is twice as thick as any other phone I have owned in the last 10 years. In general I agree that thicker and heavier phones would be good but in this case they seem to have already got to the upper limits of…
If you use the - option in syslogd configuration for non-synchronous writes then /var/log will be only a tiny portion of writes. If you have a mail server then the many log messages about a message delivery will have…
I'm not sure it makes a lot of difference unless you have hundreds of snapshots. The way changes work to BTRFS is that every change without snapshots does most of the same stuff that a change with snapshots does. If…
In addition to cables and backplanes that have been mentioned, the entire path from RAM to PCIe to disk controller has non zero risks of errors. That said I'm pretty sure that the BTRFS errors I've seen from SSDs have…
If you want to mix SSD and hard drives then you probably want bcache.
Most things last longer than their warranty, if even 5% of an item fail to reach the warranty then it's a disaster for the manufacturer. Planning for replacement is probably a good idea when you are 5* the warranty.
When I was using a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen6 with Linux it would hit a thermal limit and throttle the CPU speed if I read from NVMe at maximum speed for more than about 30 seconds. That was partly due to an issue with the…
In the post I wrote 'between the 2 SSDs SMART reports 18 uncorrectable errors and “btrfs device stats” reports 55 errors on one of them'. That's 37 errors that BTRFS found that mdadm wouldn't have found. 37 errors out…
Sometimes that's a good idea, sometimes it might make things worse. A previous server that had a RAID-1 of SSDs was limited by SSD write speed. As the SSDs got old the write speed dropped significantly. If I had 2…
zram is a good thing. However in my investigations in 2014 "my conclusion was that swap wouldn’t be a problem as no normally operating systems that I run had swap using any significant fraction of total disk writes".…
The "server which runs my blog (among many other things)" probably has most of it's writes from a mail server for dozens of domains and has some commercial web sites that are very interactive and database backed.
I know a guy who uses old rack mount servers as workstations and he gets that. I guess it's a good option if you like wearing hearing protection at your desk as he does.
That sort of thing seems like a good idea. There are X programs (and presumably Wayland programs) that do similar things (like web browsers stopping things when switching to a different tab or minimising the window).…
By default qtwayland5 is not installed, should this be considered a bug?
https://puri.sm/posts/my-first-year-of-librem-5-convergence/ The Purism CSO has been running a Librem 5 as his primary desktop PC for over a year. When Plasma was first released I was probably running hardware slower…
Web sites review phones based on weight. Phones are designed for review as a higher priority than being designed for use.
Do you know of a good web site explaining how this works? My Android phone used to kill my Jabber client all the time until I got to using Conversations which has a notification all the time which seems to be the way to…
My first Android phone was a Sony Ericsson Xperia x10i. With that phone I could go to sleep while playing music from the SD card and wake up 8 hours later with plenty of battery left. The same phone however would run…
All programs on the Librem5 appear to be in Debian packages and most of them seem to be identical to the ones in Debian. The document you cited has procedures for getting packages in PureOS independently of Debian, but…
It is thick for many reasons, having separate chips for security means a bigger motherboard, having a socket for a security chip, etc. But the battery is really big, much bigger than is common for modern phones.
The Librem5 is twice as thick as any other phone I have owned in the last 10 years. In general I agree that thicker and heavier phones would be good but in this case they seem to have already got to the upper limits of…
If you use the - option in syslogd configuration for non-synchronous writes then /var/log will be only a tiny portion of writes. If you have a mail server then the many log messages about a message delivery will have…
I'm not sure it makes a lot of difference unless you have hundreds of snapshots. The way changes work to BTRFS is that every change without snapshots does most of the same stuff that a change with snapshots does. If…
In addition to cables and backplanes that have been mentioned, the entire path from RAM to PCIe to disk controller has non zero risks of errors. That said I'm pretty sure that the BTRFS errors I've seen from SSDs have…
If you want to mix SSD and hard drives then you probably want bcache.
Most things last longer than their warranty, if even 5% of an item fail to reach the warranty then it's a disaster for the manufacturer. Planning for replacement is probably a good idea when you are 5* the warranty.
When I was using a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen6 with Linux it would hit a thermal limit and throttle the CPU speed if I read from NVMe at maximum speed for more than about 30 seconds. That was partly due to an issue with the…
In the post I wrote 'between the 2 SSDs SMART reports 18 uncorrectable errors and “btrfs device stats” reports 55 errors on one of them'. That's 37 errors that BTRFS found that mdadm wouldn't have found. 37 errors out…
Sometimes that's a good idea, sometimes it might make things worse. A previous server that had a RAID-1 of SSDs was limited by SSD write speed. As the SSDs got old the write speed dropped significantly. If I had 2…
zram is a good thing. However in my investigations in 2014 "my conclusion was that swap wouldn’t be a problem as no normally operating systems that I run had swap using any significant fraction of total disk writes".…
The "server which runs my blog (among many other things)" probably has most of it's writes from a mail server for dozens of domains and has some commercial web sites that are very interactive and database backed.