That startup time test seems a little sus for BTRFS
It’s not just startup time, it’s startup time with heavy background I/O
I want to support pharonix but damn, chill out ob the ads. Especially the video overlays on mobile. It is unusable without an ad blocker, while at the same time saying they are ad supported.
I would like to help, but ouch.
If you’re from the EU you can just reject all cookies and all ads disappear.
Premium subscription is ad free, It’s easy to judge but maybe that’s what he needs to do to make a decent income.
But yeah some financial transparency would be nice, maybe have a fundraiser where raising X amount of money would make it ad free.
Kent just made a reply on this.
TL;DR: Fast on his machine. The reason of the difference is unclear though.
Would help if they have a repo with a test suite anyone can run, like in science making it easy to reproduce results.