On the last system I put together I used xfs because I was thinking ext4 development was waning. TBH I can't really tell the difference in my regular usage.
Word on the street is that xfs sometimes corrupts files, but I'm not sure if that's true anymore.
Maybe on the next system I'll be back to ext4.
When I was in college we had disposable film cameras. That was more than enough intrusion, thank you very much. I've always been incredibly happy that we did not have digital cameras in those years. 😅
I hate to do this, but AI chatbots are typically pretty good at giving examples for things like this and you can learn from it.
I have 2000 Saturn with 220,000 on it. It has been amazingly solid and low TCO.
Of course, they don't make them anymore, so your point stands. They don't make them like they used to.
The one thing that would drive my parents over the edge is ads in Windows. They already use Firefox and Libreoffice.
Unix has been my favorite dev platform since I first used it 30 years ago. I'm typing this on a Mac, which also does just fine. But I'm happiest on my Linux box. Even WSL was OK, but the bloat of Windows overpowers the hardware. My Linux daily driver is a 9-year-old laptop that couldn't handle Windows any longer.
I'm on the "OK but keep an eye on it" train, here.
Devs need feedback to know how people are using the product, and opt-out tracking is the best way to do it. In this case, it seems like my personal data is completely unidentifiable.
I was coding in the IE6 era, so I'd really prefer to not end up in a browser engine monoculture again.
It never happened--since they knew in advance, they had time to whip up something cool if there wasn't anything else. It didn't have to be massive. I just wanted to see some clean non-trivial code and a clear understanding of how it worked. Fizzbuzz wouldn't have impressed. :)
One of my classmates years ago loved bash. They wrote a filesystem for their OS class in Bash. It was a really, really impressive and bad idea.
But how do you handle candidates who say something like "look, there's heaps of code that I'm proud of and would love to walk you through, but it's all work I've done for past companies and don't have access (or the legal right) to show you?"
It never once happened. They always knew in advance, so they could code something up if they felt like it.
I asked candidates to bring me some code they were proud of and teach me how it worked. Weeded out people really quickly and brought quality candidates to the top. On two separate occasions we hired devs with zero experience in the language or framework and they rocked it. Trythat with your coding interview, eh? 🙂
Yikes. Back to Newegg for me!