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New comment by sdbillin in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"

sdbillin — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:45:41 +0000

Could really do with a torrent. 120GB at 3MB/sec...

New comment by sdbillin in "How to build your own RAID for macOS on a budget"

sdbillin — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 17:41:43 +0000

The trouble with SSD arrays, especially for use as a boot drive, is the access time. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485...

You'll get more throughput (probably), but slightly higher latency.

New comment by sdbillin in "Why Did Intel x86 Beat RISC Processors in the 1990s? (2022)"

sdbillin — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:41:10 +0000

Not faulting the content, but this could really have done with a quick proof-reading for grammar and syntax.

New comment by sdbillin in "[dead]"

sdbillin — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 21:59:28 +0000

Using allah as a strawman? That's a paddlin'

New comment by sdbillin in "My next main browser: a review of Orion"

sdbillin — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:46:26 +0000

What the world doesn't need is another webkit based browser.

New comment by sdbillin in "Santa hat removed from VS Code after complaint"

sdbillin — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:26:21 +0000

It deeply offends me that people in professions that require a degree of logic and rationality can actually believe in a magical sky wizard.

New comment by sdbillin in "Chrome Incognito has a Gmail account saved in it (try it yourself)"

sdbillin — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 13:06:13 +0000

Not seeing this. The only option I have is to autofill with my browser sync credentials. -edit- it shows all my saved gmail credentials, which for this browser is just one.