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How to improve battery life, performance, and SSD longevity by disabling Unix compliance just a tiny bit

Posted by cwright on 2021.01.15 @ 21:30
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Unix has all kinds of pessimizations that seemed really cool in the 1970s when they were introduced. One of them is ATime.

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