• Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    As someone I’d still consider a noob, I did this less than a month after getting a new laptop last January. I probably broke something trying to get the headphone jack working on it and then Bluetooth stopped working properly as well after installing Steam, so I started over. All I know for certain is I ended up destroying a folder I shouldn’t have on accident, which bricked the system pretty much and made nothing launchable, terminal included. This was on MX and haven’t had issues since reinstalling.

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      7 days ago

      configure automatic snapshots and invest in a few terrabytes of storage on a home cloud, like a NAS server

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        6 days ago

        It’s kind of a moot point now, but I’ve definitely been keeping snapshops from timeshift just in case I truly break something and can’t fix it, like the time I somehow nearly bricked Plasma by just trying to install virtualbox.