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  • I installed the paid version of Zorin on my Parents machines, because while I could set it up for them just the same and then maintain it until they die, I’d rather pay 50$ and have nearly 0 work to do.

    I make way over 50$ for 1 hour or Linux tech support, so there is no world where it would be worth.

    But besides that I don’t think your attitude is particularely useful for people that would rather shit just work than spend hours on setting it up themselves.







  • My current setup:

    ~/.bashrc

      stty intr \^x
      bind -f ~/.inputrc
    

    ~/.inputrc

    set bind-tty-special-chars off
    
    set colored-stats on
    set show-all-if-ambiguous on
    set show-all-if-unmodified on
    set completion-ignore-case on
    set completion-query-items -1
    set page-completions off
    
    "\e[1;5C": forward-word
    "\e[1;5D": backward-word
    "\C-h": nop
    "\C-s":"\C-asudo "
    

    And in Konsole I have remapped copy to ctrl+C and paste to ctrl+V .

    I honestly don’t remember what each config line is for, cause it has been so long ago. And probably you don’t want all of that. Probably best to throw it into an AI and let it explain it line by line.


  • If you need any help, ping me and I’ll share my setup.

    The reason you gave still falls under the concept of ergonomics.

    From wikipedia:

    Ergonomics, also known as human factors or human factors engineering (HFE), is the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems. Primary goals of human factors engineering are to reduce human error, increase productivity and system availability, and enhance safety, health and comfort with a specific focus on the interaction between the human and equipment.

    It would be a more ergonomic (and less error prone) system if you modify the shortcuts so that you don’t fumble them.






  • HelloRoot@lemy.loltoLinux@lemmy.mlBroken SSD - Disaster or not
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    12 days ago

    I have btrfs snapshots with snapper on my desktop. It keeps the last 20 snapshots. Sending them to a second drive would require an equal amount of space as the main drive, which is ~850GB / 1T full.

    But the borg backup for the same takes only ~450GB and also keeps the last 20 versions. Because of the smaller size, sending the backup over the network is also quicker than with btrfs.

    So I use btrfs to restore situations about filechanges (for example a bad system update).

    Borg is easier to set up a central server for all my devices, because it takes much less space. I run https://github.com/Ravinou/borgwarehouse . So I use that in case where the drive fails. To restore I set up the same partition layout as before and then throw the borg backup at it. It was easy enough so far.


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    I have successfully recovered from dead drives by restoring from a borgbackup to a fresh new drive.

    Borg backups take much less space on the backup storage because of extremely efficient compression and deduplication.

    The Professor who developed it has some presentations on youtube and it’s kind of mindblowing.

    So thats what I would recommend.

    I backup all my computers and servers with borgmatic which makes it a bit easier to manage excluding directories and how many versions you’d like to keep.

    If you need any help with setting it up, let me know.