Ah, thanks! If true, that is a significant performance difference. I need to look into this...

Just add 5G and I'll finally have the phone I've been waiting for

I'm curious what sets this apart from the existing JuiceFS approach? JuiceFS is a commercial product, but with a foss community edition. It doesn't appear as a block device, but it does allow you superimpose an ext4-like filesystem complete with metadata etc. over S3 block storage (and others I believe). I've been using it for years and it's excellent.

Anyone know if this an improvement over the JuiceFS solution, and in what way(s)?

Same. That snap-by-default issue (last year?) pushed me from kubuntu to pure Debian and I haven't looked back. Technically you can just remove snaps from Ubuntu to get around it, but it's an incorrect assumption that users want that forced down their throats when upgrading in place. Left a bad taste - Debian is my goto stable OS now.

Yeah, I think I read on some forum that a wireless model might be in the works. 🤞

Sorry; no idea. I'm not affiliated with them. I found them organically (almost certainly from an open source community here on lemmy) and I just think it's a really cool project and business model worth supporting.

I can't speak to long-term reliability, but this open source design is designed to be repairable: https://ploopy.co/mouse/

Thank you! This is basically what I've been assuming but haven't been able to confirm anywhere. Do you happen to have a URL handy I could share with a client? Thanks again!

This looks extremely useful. Well done!

I'm super sorry if this offends anyone, but I just can't help but hear "metaballs" as a fake Italian Mario accentt like, "What-ah happen to my meat-ah balls?"

I really want to like both nixOS and their nix package manager, but so far I'm not there yet. from a PM perspective, it seems like anything I tried getting from their repos was always way further behind the mac OS homebrew or Debian apt versions.

nixOS is really slick in concept, but has a steep learning curve to get it properly customized as a daily driver. The learned skills don't really translate outside the nix realm either, so I decided it was too much effort for my use case. I love this concept as a way to build reproducable servers or workstations tho, so I'll def be playing with it again.