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I work for a very small company. We do embedded development. They gave me a Windows machine. After a few months I ditched Windows for GNU/Linux and after a couple years the other two fellow developers followed suit.

Am I the only one using Btrfs snapshots like this? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] dario@feddit.it 1 points 3 weeks ago

This is an option, but I really do not need periodic snapshots.

Am I the only one using Btrfs snapshots like this? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] dario@feddit.it 1 points 3 weeks ago

Glad to read that.

Am I the only one using Btrfs snapshots like this? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] dario@feddit.it 2 points 3 weeks ago

This is also a sensible approach.

Am I the only one using Btrfs snapshots like this? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] dario@feddit.it 2 points 3 weeks ago

systemd-nspawn is interesting. I never managed to try it out.

Am I the only one using Btrfs snapshots like this? in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] dario@feddit.it 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It could be a sensible approach, but with a snapshot I am free to tinker with every aspect of the system knowing that I can revert everything with a reboot.

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Am I the only one using Btrfs snapshots like this? (feddit.it)

submitted 3 weeks ago by dario@feddit.it to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I use Btrfs with Parabola GNU/Linux-libre, a derivative distribution of Arch Linux. I use no snapshot management tools such as Snapper or Timeshift. I keep my system minimal and tidy. Everything is boring and predictable. I do not bork my system by mistake, except when something breaks after an odd update, usually once or twice per year. When it happens, I find a workaround (usually something needs to be downgraded) and file a bug report if there is none.

When I need to tinker with something that can possibly go out of control, like installing a new package for a program that I want to try out and I am not sure I will want to keep it, I take a snapshot of my current "pristine" system and boot into it. In the snapshot copy of my system I do all the dirty stuff I want to try out. When I am satisfied with my findings, I reboot into the main subvolume and delete the snapshot.

It seems to me that most people use Btrfs snapshots preemptively in case of unexpected failure. I use snapshots exactly when I know I am going to do something that can lead to instability or «OS rot». Am I the only one using Btrfs snapshots like this?

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Truly global search of every Lemmy community out there? None of the tools I have tried so far seem to cover everything (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago by dario@feddit.it to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Is there something to search for communities across each and every Lemmy instance out there? emulation@lemmy.ml seems hidden from every discovery tool I have tried so far and I came across more undiscoverable communities out there.

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Impossibile iscriversi a comunità !opensourcegames@lemmy.ml (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dario@feddit.it to c/feddit@feddit.it

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Mi sono iscritto a diverse comunità ospitate su lemmy.ml, ma non riesco ad iscrivermi a !opensourcegames@lemmy.ml. Su Feddit.it la ricerca non restituisce risultati utili. Ho letto da qualche parte che questa cosa può succedere quando una comunità cambia nome in seguito alla creazione. Non so se il problema sia correlato, ma ho notato che https://lemmy.ml/c/OpenSourceGames@lemmy.ml è raggiungibile, mentre https://lemmy.ml/c/OpenSourceGames restituisce un codice di errore 404.