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But I did know something about chocolate. Making the fair choice easier: Fairphone 4 is here

Even if an upstream correctly guesses the right tool I’ve been using to be consistent with my other man pages (and I love consistency), they may end up doing it wrong anyway. What about compression levels? What if I choose to use say, pbzip2 instead (notably the same algorithm)? It’s handled by my package manager at the point of installation.īut it doesn’t stop with choice of algorithm. This is because most packages don’t bother compressing their man pages - they accept the consensus that it’s for distributions/a user preference. The vast majority of man pages on my system are therefore compressed with it. As it happens, right now, it defaults to bzip2.

Portage (Gentoo’s primary package manager) allows me to choose my own compression command using the variable PORTAGE_COMPRESS in nf(5). How upstreams should learn to stop worrying and love uncompressed manpages Regardless, while I was formatting the sucker, something odd popped out at me.

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Plus, I think Windows can read Ext4 now, so really, even if I encounter Windows again, meh.

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Preformat it for the Mac and add fifty bucks and say it’s the Mac version). Though it was nice of them not to just do what hardware vendors normally do. Anyway, then it wouldn’t work right with Windows or Linux. Toshiba suggested that Mac users reformat it to Horrible File System + extended attributes, not the actual name, but I jest. (The Macs have read/write ExFAT but cannot write NTFS. With Linux having a kernel module for ExFAT now with read/write support and a tools package, you’d probably be better off with that if cross-platform compatibility is going to be a concern. And while NTFS being compatible with Windows is an argument for NTFS, it’s not that much of one. You get better reliability and I/O efficiency, and better CPU usage stats, out of native file systems. I formatted it to Ext4 for use with Linux, as non-native NTFS volumes require third party userspace drivers, because of all of Microsoft’s nasty patents and if Microsoft’s own repair tools for NTFS can sometimes themselves corrupt NTFS volumes, even though NTFS dates back to 1993, I’m not hopeful for third party tools.

For 2.9 cents per GB, it made sense to try one out. The review of reliability (as far as drives go) was hard to determine, as the BackBlaze article I was able to gloss over said they appear to be at least as reliable as other major brands, but that they just didn’t have as many to compare. Luckily, I back up things that are important in numerous places, so I lost very little that was ultimately that important, but when I purchased a replacement, the best deal I could find (with my spouse’s 10% Walmart discount and my 5% back in points from the credit card people on Walmart’s website) was a 4 TB Toshiba Canvio Advance. My Western Digital 2 TB “EasyStore” finally crashed after 5 years.