I first discovered Timeshift through Garuda, which had it set up by default. It mitigates the issue of bleeding-edge updates breaking your system.(Although they use Snapper now, which is supposedly better with BTRFS.)
When you install or update something that breaks something, like has happened to me many times, to the point that the system cannot boot, you can pick a snapshot from the grub menu from before those changes occurred, allowing you to recover your system to a working state without the use of a live boot usb.
It's also been useful when some program or other stops working due to some change in a dependency somewhere, like OBS sometimes does. Then you can just hop backwards in time to a point where it works and get to actually using your system, instead of spending hours tracking down exactly where an error is occurring right then and there. "fixing it later" becomes a valid way of dealing with problems with your system, when just pressing a button lets you make it temporarily go away.
It works however you like, you can define which parts of the system get snapshotted.
The default leaves your home folder untouched, meaning downgrading your system to an earlier point in time should never meany our user files are affected.
To be fair, I thought about that however saw posts from other people that blocked from posting because of the automation. Also I think the automation process is pretty much botched thanks to API change. So I handpick my posts, mostly skipping forum posts, that leaves image-based posts which are not that many, at least for me.
Maybe it can be still possible if you want data request from Reddit, since you'll get your post links. Unless they're NSFW, scrapping should work after that.
But since trying Arch, i do pacman Syu almost everyday.
Its kinda addicting, and it give some statisfactions for myself, i dont know why
But now I'm past that stage, and just update it like every 2 weeks.
Going to Gentoo, i repeat the same process again. Seeing the console log is hipnotising and give a statisfaction for me when it complete successfully. I update like every 3 days
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somedaysoon@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 3y
4rkal@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
I'm the
echo "sudo pacman -Syu" >> .bashrcUndearius@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 3y
This is the first I'm hearing of timeshift. I will be looking into this.
voidMainVoid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
I first discovered Timeshift through Garuda, which had it set up by default. It mitigates the issue of bleeding-edge updates breaking your system.(Although they use Snapper now, which is supposedly better with BTRFS.)
vox@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 3y
timeshift supports btrfs snapshots tho
JurassicPork@lemmy.one · 7 pts · 3y
Alias yolo=yes š I know what new alias I'm creating on my laptop and rasp pi's š
skillissuer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 3y
thank you!!
fuckis still 3 less characters thansudo !!JurassicPork@lemmy.one · 4 pts · 3y
Omg ššš well, look w"tf" I have been mossing, that is gold
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 3y
Timeshift has saved my stupid ass way too many times
Melco@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 3y
When you install or update something that breaks something, like has happened to me many times, to the point that the system cannot boot, you can pick a snapshot from the grub menu from before those changes occurred, allowing you to recover your system to a working state without the use of a live boot usb.
It's also been useful when some program or other stops working due to some change in a dependency somewhere, like OBS sometimes does. Then you can just hop backwards in time to a point where it works and get to actually using your system, instead of spending hours tracking down exactly where an error is occurring right then and there. "fixing it later" becomes a valid way of dealing with problems with your system, when just pressing a button lets you make it temporarily go away.
Melco@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 3y
It works however you like, you can define which parts of the system get snapshotted. The default leaves your home folder untouched, meaning downgrading your system to an earlier point in time should never meany our user files are affected.
skillissuer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
mpiepgrass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
4rkal@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
G0FuckThyself@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
muhyb@programming.dev · 11 pts · 3y
To be fair, I thought about that however saw posts from other people that blocked from posting because of the automation. Also I think the automation process is pretty much botched thanks to API change. So I handpick my posts, mostly skipping forum posts, that leaves image-based posts which are not that many, at least for me.
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
muhyb@programming.dev · 1 pts · 3y
Hahaha
G0FuckThyself@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
muhyb@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3y
Maybe it can be still possible if you want data request from Reddit, since you'll get your post links. Unless they're NSFW, scrapping should work after that.
odium@programming.dev · 7 pts · 3y
My most common command is probably yay -Syu
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 3y
By default, this is aliased to just
yayTwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 3y
I never really understood why to use -Syu instead of just yay
vaseline@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
You can just do
yayvojel@feddit.de · 1 pts · 3y
Bloat. yay without -Syu does the same.
Plm@programming.dev · 7 pts · 3y
sudo !!
TheDarkBanana87@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Used to hate when windows update between my work.
But since trying Arch, i do pacman Syu almost everyday.
Its kinda addicting, and it give some statisfactions for myself, i dont know why
But now I'm past that stage, and just update it like every 2 weeks.
Going to Gentoo, i repeat the same process again. Seeing the console log is hipnotising and give a statisfaction for me when it complete successfully. I update like every 3 days
Now i update once a month hahaha
dotslashme@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 3y
I update every 2-3 weeks or so. Is this really a thing?
muhyb@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3y
Well, it's a meme with some exaggeration so not really. But daily perhaps? :)
Titou@feddit.de · 1 pts · 3y
doas, FTW