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luthis, 1 year ago to asklemmy in What genres of music do Lemmites enjoy?

Plenty or great bands there!

luthis, 1 year ago to newcommunities in [META] [Crosspost] Announcing a new Search Engine for Lemmy

Should be able to search all instances. If you know what instance your community is on, then you’ve already found it so… why search?

luthis, 1 year ago to linux in Live (Animated) wallpapers programs for linux

Pretty sure I did with mplayer and/or feh but it was years ago

luthis, 1 year ago to linux in As a normal, boring user that does nothing special other than browse the internet and the occasional "casual coding" -- what am I supposed to do with 32GiB of ram?

My DE is Gnome which uses a bit. Haven’t really looked into it further, because I still have 62GB of ram free after startx. Haven’t maxed it out yet.

luthis, 1 year ago to linux in Easiest way to switch distros

How did you get on with this? I was looking to do this myself.

It’s that one step closer to having a customised disposable distro

luthis, 1 year ago to linux in Automatic backups of inode tables and partition info for easier data recovery

Oh you’re right it does work… well fuck knows what I was doing wrong before.

Yeah this is a backup in case I like, mv file to /dev/sda1 or something.

Not a backup of the files, but a backup of the structure.

luthis, 1 year ago to linux in Automatic backups of inode tables and partition info for easier data recovery

Ok time to investigate ZFS

luthis, 1 year ago to linux in Automatic backups of inode tables and partition info for easier data recovery

For fun and learning. It’s just another tool to go with file level backup.

And the backup for this is 40mb and really fast, but backing up files even when compressed would be hundreds of GB, maybe terabytes, and then you’re paying for that amount of storage online somewhere, uploading for hours…

luthis, 1 year ago to linux in Automatic backups of inode tables and partition info for easier data recovery

Great tips, thanks!

I’m using ext4 across everything I think.

Can you enable superblocks after you’ve already formatted the drive?

Fdisk saves the offsets so keeping a record of that at least sounds like a good idea.

luthis, 1 year ago to linux in FOUND file in device by hex content using wxHexEditor

Yeah definitely share your config! I’ve only just scratched the surface with wxHexEditor

luthis, 1 year ago to linux in FOUND file in device by hex content using wxHexEditor

Thanks! I will keep it up!

luthis, 1 year ago to linux in How to take actions on multiple docker containers at once

I needed a way to pass an argument into the command so it can be used in name=“$1”

luthis, 1 year ago to linux in How to take actions on multiple docker containers at once

If I eventually get around to using a GUI, I’ll check out portainer

luthis, 1 year ago to linux in How to take actions on multiple docker containers at once

You can of course do it this way too, it’s just extra typing:

docker container stop $(docker container ls -qf name=snikket)

luthis, 1 year ago to linux in Systemd Homed users and what does 'login' mean?

Actually, I suspect ‘login’ refers to init and logind,

Back to the wiki to find out the steps during late userspace…