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New comment by BitFlogger in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"

BitFlogger — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:06:31 +0000

Swap isn't just for when you run out of ram though.

Don't look at swap as more memory on slow / hdds. Look at it as a place the kernel can use if it needs a place to put something temporarily.

This can happen on large memory systems fairly easily when memory gets fragments and something asks for a chunk of memory than can't be allocated because there isn't a large enough contiguous block, so the allocation fails.

I always do a least a couple of GBs now for swap... I won't really miss the storage and that at least gives the kernel a place to re-org/compact memory and keep chugging along.

New comment by BitFlogger in "Untrusted Device Encryption"

BitFlogger — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 03:38:33 +0000

Not necessarily. Lets say I have a node at my in-laws house. I would use untrusted device encryption in case anyone decided to take the drive and have a look.

New comment by BitFlogger in "Monaspace"

BitFlogger — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 20:29:25 +0000

Texture healing requires ligatures (specifically `calt`) and Alacritty does not support ligatures.

New comment by BitFlogger in "OrbStack 1.0 is here! Fast, light, easy way to run Docker containers and Linux"

BitFlogger — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:59:03 +0000

Congrats on the launch!

I just updated and saw the notification and passed it along to my legal department to get approval for purchase.

Do you know if you are, or have any plans to be, SOC2 Compliant?

New comment by BitFlogger in "micro – A Modern Alternative to nano"

BitFlogger — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 17:41:28 +0000

Looks like it doesn't support MacOSX...