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Author of the post reporting for duty! That was written before TCG Opal arrived and greatly improved the situation. In any case, the post turned out to be a meeting point for SSD full disk encryption fans, so there's a whole lot of great discussion in the comments. I did write a follow-up post in 2015 on getting TCG Opal working with your SSD using the open source MSED: https://vxlabs.com/2015/02/11/use-the-hardware-based-full-disk-encrypt… (the author of MSED was super-helpful in the comments, which turned out to be an informal kind of msed helpdesk)

Thank you for the recommendation. I will look into building my own tree sitter grammars using https://github.com/casouri/tree-sitter-module as you suggest. Some time ago I followed this guide https://vxlabs.com/2022/06/12/typescript-development-with-emacs-tree-s… and added this to my .emacs (use-package tree-sitter :ensure t :config ;; activate tree-sitter on any buffer containing code for which it has a parser available (global-tree-sitter-mode) ;; you can easily see the difference tree-sitter-hl-mode makes for python, ts or tsx ;; by switching on and off (add-hook 'tree-sitter-after-on-hook #'tree-sitter-hl-mode)) (use-package tree-sitter-langs :ensure t :after tree-sitter) Regarding C++, I tried a simpler experiment starting emacs with % open -n -a Emacs --args "-q" and I think my C++ slowness issue is due to fontlock https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Font-Lock.ht… Even without a startup file, I can't open https://github.com/ASDAlexander77/TypeScriptCompiler/blob/main/tsc/lib… and scroll through the file unless I also manually do ESC : (global-font-lock-mode 0) I'm sorry if I gave the impression I'm a regular C++ developer. I only use it occasionally. I just happened to remember finding myself unable to use Emacs for that particular file.

vice versa, wsl2 is the true VM that truly suffers https://vxlabs.com/2019/12/06/wsl2-io-measurements/

> As a rule of thumb, WSL 2 accessing host (NTFS) files is about 5 times slower than WSL 1 accessing those same files. https://vxlabs.com/2019/12/06/wsl2-io-measurements/

I agree, gaming and Office are major bonuses for Windows. And IMHO, the discussion about which OS one should use is probably older than any OS at all. It comes down to personal preferences and experiences. I would not for any longer time want to use only Windows for a couple of reasons. I use it for some office stuff (we have SharePoint and OneDrive for Businsess does not exist for Linux). I did a quick search and here are two references about the WSL speed: [1] https://vxlabs.com/2019/12/06/wsl2-io-measurements/ [2] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197 It seems that they already improved a lot bur are still nowhere near native FS speed because of some technical limiations on how to embed the FS.

I've found ob-ipython [1] within Org Mode to be one of the best options for interfacing with Jupyter. If you're sick of the limitations of working in a browser, it's worth checking out. Scimax version: https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/scimax-ipython.org Video of Scimax version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMira3QsUdg Previous HN discussion highlighting key features: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17839926 Some relevant blog posts: - https://vxlabs.com/2017/11/24/getting-ob-ipython-to-show-documentation… - https://vxlabs.com/2017/11/30/run-code-on-remote-ipython-kernels-with-… - https://kozikow.com/2016/05/21/very-powerful-data-analysis-environment… [1] https://github.com/gregsexton/ob-ipython

Linked from the article: https://vxlabs.com/2017/06/03/querying-restful-webservices-into-emacs-…

There are HDDs and SSDs that do the encryption themself, rather than just being a dumb storage medium. You need to unlock it with the password or key when using it, and the disk will transparently encrypt and decrypt the contents on reads/writes. One problem is that you have to trust the disk (manufacturer/firmware) to do this right. This is not so easy to verify yourself, and not all drives claiming FDE are equally secure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-based_full_disk_encryption https://vxlabs.com/2012/12/22/ssds-with-usable-built-in-hardware-based…

"A bricked device still has the data on it. It's fake security" No, because they do this http://vxlabs.com/2012/12/22/ssds-with-usable-built-in-hardware-based-… Erase the AES key -> data is gone