What is the magnesium top case and bezel mod? Will any Intel AX210 card work, or do I have to somehow patch the T480's firmware to update the wifi whitelist?
I wonder if load times have improved. I had this on my Kobo Libra 2, and it took it easily 5 minutes or more to open an admittedly large epub file. Changing the font size also incurred a huge penalty as it reflowed the entire document.
Conversely, the built-in software never struggled with that file.
I ended up getting a faster Kobo! Thankfully, the slow load is a one time thing, per book. Depending upon when you tried it, KOReader has switched to a progressive model of updating it's caching (with most of it being handled in the background) when modifying a book's formatting.
That said, I think this may be mostly based upon a book's formatting. Messing around with upload options in Calibre may help. (For example, Calibre recently added an option to speed up load times with Kobo's reader software.)
That Calibre option isn't relevant -- it's for Kobo's native stuff, which treats "KEPUB" different from regular ePub, in ways that I haven't bothered to remember.
ZFS is a first-class citizen on Void Linux, too. There's a lot of care and consideration put into the kernel packages to ensure compatibility with ZFS. ZFSBootMenu is 'native' to Void as well, and the features it provides are quite far ahead of what FreeBSD's bootloader has.
Snapshots on ZFS only take up space when files change. It's easy to use one of the many snapshot managers to accomplish what you want - I do it for my workstation and laptop. I have zero fear of deleting files, upgrading the OS, making sweeping changes to my system config, etc.
Are you saying at Tesla, GitHub can't be used without pull requests? You can for sure (obviously) just push to whatever branch you want for your GitHub hosted repository if that's your desire.
It's great to hear that you're using ZFSBootMenu the way I envisioned it! There's such a sense of relief and freedom having snapshots of your whole OS taken every 15 minutes.
One thing that you might not be aware of is that you can create a zpool checkpoint before doing something 'dangerous' (disk swap, pool version upgrade, etc) and if it goes badly, roll back to that checkpoint in ZFSBootMenu on the Pool tab. Keep in mind though that you can only have one checkpoint at a time, they keep growing and growing, and a rollback is for EVERYTHING on the pool.
Oh, are you zdykstra? If so, thanks for creating an invaluable tool!
> you can create a zpool checkpoint before doing something 'dangerous' (disk swap, pool version upgrade, etc) and if it goes badly, roll back to that checkpoint in ZFSBootMenu on the Pool tab
Good to know! Snapshots meet most of my needs at present (since my boot volume is a single fast drive, snapshots ~~ checkpoints in this case), but I could see this coming in useful for future scenarios where I need to do complex or risky things with data volumes or SAN layout changes.
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