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Yet another win for Systemd.

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[–] Satelllliiiiiiiteeee@kbin.social 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Target disk mode is fantastic, I'm thrilled to see this coming to Linux

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Worked in IT, target disk mode is a life saver when you have to recover data from a laptop with a broken screen/keyboard/bad ribbon cable and don't want to take apart something held together by glue.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

It's a nice feature. I used it a few times on old Macs with external FireWire hard drives for booting a different OS or troubleshooting.