Equal parts mad and cool that ext4 is still getting meaningful updates
I remember when it was the new hotness 2 decades ago
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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Wow, ok. Now I feel old. Yeah, I remember updating my system from ext3 to ext4 (an incredibly easy process). I can’t believe that was 20 years ago.
I remember using ReiserFS and moving away from it for... reasons.
There seems to be a pattern with Linux FS maintainers.
When I first switched to Linux around 20 years ago, ext3 was the new default on the Ubuntu installer, while a few holdouts on the forums were still recommending ext2 to new users to see whether and how ext3 would hold up to real world usage.
I remember ext2 to ext3. Journaling was all the rage!
I remember JFS coming out and being excited
Remember when FAT came out?
no, Im old but not "remembering file system releases from 1977" old
And yet we're still using that file system...
Who the fuck downvoted this? And why?
Some idiot who obviously wants stale xarray tags after writeback.
There is always that one downvote no matter what. Get used to it 🙃
The fact that this reponse has 1 downvote is *chef's kiss*
I love this comment so much that I'm gonna swipe-like the shit out of it! Whoops! Well, they'll know what I meant.
I used to be upset about this phenomenon until I realized Social Media is full:
- people who can’t see one palm in front of them
- literal children whose parents are scrolling videos for them to watch.
All due to screen addiction. So while it is tempting to reduce everything to bots, trolls, or mustache-twirling villains who won’t let us have nice things, the reality is we humans too tend to misclick things. 😶🌫️
I'm left handed and in the Jerboa app the vote buttons are on the left. I've accidentally voted on posts when scrolling the feed quite a few times by now.
I miss the old Relay Reddit app where I could move the controls around to avoid that issue.
Why are you still using jerboa when there are a dozen other apps that have that functionality?
The pickings were slim when I initially went to Lemmy, but I might take a look at some of the others again soon. I am also hoping a Lemmy app would support UnifiedPush in the foreseeable future.
I initially used jerboa for a long time, but I don't remember what made me try something else. I settled on Thunder, but initially it was very weird and ugly. Had to spend a bunch of time in the settings to configure it in a way that made sense to me. Now it feels natural.
I'll give it a try, looks like they even have an experimental UnifiedPush feature
This is blaphemous against the holy temple of Bcachefs.
I think you misspelled ZFS.
Let's hope it's an accident. I have an app that allows for voting by swiping on a comment/post. It used to be quite sensitive and I found out I had down/up voted unintentionally when swiping back a couple of times.
lol this is why I think being able to disable downvotes from non-subscribers is a good idea