The btrfs community and developers have been saying this for at least the past 10 years and sending out mixed signals about btrfs' production-readiness. I've suffered from data loss almost every time I've used btrfs.

Most common issues I encounter are disk being full even thought the files on the disk cannot possibly take so much space as to fill the entire disk and performance especially with games and databases. Also sometimes regardless if I'm using SSD or mechanical HDD, sometimes system just freezes when using btrfs and this has been an on-going issue for me past 5 years with btrfs test installs. And really infuriating when it starts to occur in SailfishOS. At this point I don't think it is possible to fix btrfs with more development because it clearly is defective by design.

I mainly use plain ext4 but also lvm+ext4. However I've been phasing lvm+ext4 out in favour of zfs. I'm quite disappointed about Fedora's recent decision to default to btrfs and I'm now planning to move to Ubuntu because they ship working easy zfs-on-root solution anyone can install.

NANOMACHINES, SON!

Sailfish OS here too.

What are you doing America? Your universities and colleges are turning into a Marxists hug boxes. Apps like these will be used by PC feminist girls to hunt down the people they disagree with men and women alike. Though police is soon a reality.

Yes. Also: DNF = Does Not Function.

There are games that are art but not all games are art.

I'm tired of people kneeing in front of these SJWs and wanting to appeal them. We know that it will not help your stuff see more usage. In fact we know from the Protein World's case that doing the opposite will increase your product's sales and usage. Let the developers use .bro if they want. Completely mad political correctness is rampant in English speaking world and should be put into reins. Using "bro" isn't offensive. I will as a joke make my next file type .bro if nobody will take it. Or .cis or .sis or .fag or something like that. I'm rising my middle finger to SJWs.

This Microsoft Wi-Fi Sense thing is a joke, right?

You're wrong. It's perfectly fine to use "PC" to describe "Commodore Amiga". I've lived through the personal computer revolution and PC doesn't exclusively refer to "IBM PC". I have an Amiga and it's a PC. However it is not "IBM PC". Those machines were for spreadsheet suckers.

Devices other than "IBM PCs" were marketed as PCs. For example Commodore 64c has a sticker on top of it and bottom which says that it's a "Personal Computer" aka. PC. And ads frequently referred it being a personal computer for the whole family. Furthermore HP sold a highly programmable calculator that was marketed as a PC before the PC revolution even started.

Term "PC" was in use in e.g. marketing of various microcomputers well before IBM PC Model 5051 was introduced. I believe that some of the first "modern desktop computers" to be described as "PC" are from early 1970's. Any device which, to quote Wikipedia, "is a general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities and original sale price make it useful for individuals, and is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator" can be and should be described as a "PC".

Here in Europe people often did refer various devices as PCs even if they were not from IBM. People also used to call their systems "microcomputers", "home computers" or by the name of the machine e.g. "Commodore" or "Atari" or "IBM Compatible" (because the software sold had stickers like "for IBM PC and 100% compatibles").

Around 1999 this practice died since there were no other PCs than IBM PC clones at the PC market marketed for the general public. IBM PC, like Rollerblades (with roller skates), have become so synonymous with PC, that when people talk about PCs they tend to refer to IBM PC (clones) running Microsoft Windows. Furthermore Apple's marketing has taken advantage of the whole "Generic Trademark" thing and established themselves as "Mac" even though they're exactly same hardware.

I need more beer. I cannot read these threads otherwise.

And far, far away...

...Lenovo Thinkpad T450 or honestly anything from T-series is fine. T-series of ThinkPad is well supported in GNU/Linux and they are insanely durable machines. The new keyboard and the new trackpad do require getting used to (the old Thinkpad keyboard is almost perfect. I really love it.) but they're more than capable and the new keyboard is comfortable and efficient after using it for a while.

...Lenovo Thinkpad W550s might be worth checking it out. However I think W-series is probably an overkill in this usage scenario.

...Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is supposedly very good. One of my friend has a one and she apparently likes it quite a bit. It comes with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed.

However I definitely under any circumstance cannot recommend Apple's Macbook Pros. I used to own a Macbook Pro (two in fact... of the same late 2008 15" model). During the course of few years of travelling and working with fairly large datasets it pissed under itself a dozen of times like a cheap 350€ plastic Acer or MSI laptop. People think that I am joking when I tell that Macbooks are like jewelry (look nice, are expensive, but really fragile) but it's true. They cannot handle heavy workloads in environments other than normal office.

Not to mention that OS X has gone bad (due an acute iOS poisoning) since the greatest thing ever that was the OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Think about this: In Yosemite the X in the close window button in window decoration is "misaligned" (there's actually a pretty interesting science explanation why this is the case). Good design should take account into the technical limitations too.

http://www.robbert.org/2014/10...

Google Wave was really cool idea and service. Thankfully the Apache Wave exists now but without a large corporation pushing it the chances of it getting anywhere are slim at best. Oh, and I wonder where Google left its "Don't be evil" mentality.

I also hope to see Google Plus on the memorial page as soon as possible. But for the sake of fairness it should be mentioned that as a service G+ is better than the Facebook. OH AND THE CURRENT USER INTERFACE of the Youtube. It's absolutely horrible and dysfunctional.

The statistics don't agree with what you're claiming. Both men and women receive about just as much harassment on social media. The claims American journalists did few months ago were not based on reality.

Please watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

First I want to say that Twitter has done a good job improving its reporting system. So thanks for them for that.

But I'd like to point out that the articles produced by Ars Technica cannot be trusted as a source in this matter. For example this Slashdot news item links to an article full of errors about the reasons Twitter has done this. The "vast harassment campaign" they're talking about is #Gamergate which is a reaction on behalf of gamers (aka. people who play computer and video games regularly) to a corrupt games journalism and other problems in games industry such as collusion, and censorship,.. not to mention the favoritism, cronyism and nepotism related issues.

Ars Technica writer Ben Kutchera has been accused of some really unethical things by the people who support #Gamergate. Kutchera for example is known to have taken part in journalistic collusion (Google GameJournoPro mailing list). He is also known for trying to tone police writers from other news outlets to write stuff from the same perspective as their clique did. And pressuring head of Escapist Magazine to censorship conversation about certain issues and especially things they didn't like. Like for example, people who criticise Anita Sarkeesian's extremist views. Mr. Kutchera was paying money for a developer through Patreon, and presumably was expecting this developer to give him exclusive interviews and stuff like that. Resulting both getting money and fame. And the proof of him doing all this is out there. And he is not the only one doing these things.

http://wiki.gamergate.me/index...
http://wiki.gamergate.me/index...

Trying to avoid the talk about the corruption and GameJournoPro list, writers like Mr. Kuchera and the rest of the accused people from Polygon, Kotaku, Gamasutra, Ars, RPS, etc. have been opposing #Gamergate. They've actively been trying to derail the conversation by accusing pro-#GamerGate of some of the most depressing stuff I've ever read on-line. Ars Technica as a whole has either failed to understand everything related to the social phenomenon currently on-going (which they should understand, if I may add), or they know exactly what is going on and they're playing fools on purpose.

The "Chat Logs" in question were released by person who happens to be one of the people accused of cronyism and being professional victim by pro-#GamerGate people. And the evidence supporting these claims this is also out there if you Google it. Those pieces make a stronger case than the cherry-picked or out of context "Chat Logs" that support the other point of view in this matter.

It just blows my mind when person (or people this person knows), visit anonymous image boards (without understanding how they work), write bad stuff about themselves (which can be traced back to themselves), and then go to their Twitter accounts and blogs with the screenshots they just took of their own messages, and shout "Look! Here's evidence of how bad these people on this board are". And that's even more mind boggling is how journalistic outlets like Ars Technica without verifying person's story or listening to both parties in question, write articles about the person as the harassed underdog who is desperately in need of some more Patreon money or Kickstarter funding.

#GamerGate is just a hash tag like any other. Any one can go on-line and take part in it. Any one can go and do what they want with it. I'm sure that harassment has happened, release of private information has happened, and some other bad stuff has happened. And both the anti-#GamerGate, the trolls, and pro-#GamerGate have done it. And it's good that Twitter offers better tools for people to combat against this bad behaviour. And I also hope that they have a system in place against people who are abusing the report system.

However it is wrong for Ars Technica to make an article were they commit multiple logical fallacies, use unverified & untrustworthy sources to back them up, and do other stuff. But the most critical part of this Slashdot news item I want to address using a Youtube video. Ars Technica wrote that "Chat logs recently revealed how Twitter is used by small groups to create vast harassment campaigns, thanks to sock puppet account and relative anonymity". Here are the persons who are part of the so called "harassment campaign", who are the "sock puppets" and "relatively" anonymous people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

People who don't know what #GamerGate is should watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I still subscribe to a newspaper. I haven't watched TV in years.