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I’m also @savvywolf@furry.engineer , and I have a website at https://www.savagewolf.org/ .

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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Snapshots seem an ideal tool for the job. It won’t replace a full backup system, but as long as the cost of failure (such as you mistyping a command and nuking the disk’s partition data or something) is only a few hours of OS reconfiguration rather than losing priceless family photos, it should work.

    I use btrfs snapshots on my system. When I’m about to do something “risky” (e.g. trying out kde or cosmic) I take a snapshot beforehand. Then when I want to go back, I just restore the snapshot and reboot.

    For /home, there won’t be a lot of OS configuration there, and if it’s a burner machine you probably won’t have much personalisation done on it. However, if you want to backup configuration there, look into a dotfile manager.



  • Depends on how much RAM you intend to use, and how much you need. For normal web browsing, I think probably enough swap space to make your total RAM + Swap amount up to 24GiB should do. If you have more than that and don’t run anything memory intensive, you can probably get away without any swap at all.

    If you want the ability to hibernate though, you need at least the same amount of swap as physical RAM (since Linux will use the swap space as the location to “hibernate to”.

    I think for an SSD it makes sense to use a swap file rather than a swap partition, since random access is basically free and you can resize it easily. That’s a minor thing though.

    How much memory do you have? How much storage do you have? What will this computer be used for? Do you want to be able to hibernate?






  • I find it amusing that supposedly a modern smartphone is “useless” because it lacks mobile data. Tech like the iPod and PDA were innovative and changed society. Having a device that functions as a camera, calculator, note taking device, information database, audio recorder and even light source is insane.

    Other than that, I think one of the best things to do is to learn how something works, head back in time and invent it. Seems like a good way to get reliable income.



  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialtoLinux@lemmy.mlHow to install wine ?
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    16 days ago

    What is your end goal? There are a lot of different ways to install Wine for different purposes.

    If it’s just to run a arbitrary binary, I use Heroic and add it as a non-Epic/Amazon game. Different Wine/Proton versions can be downloaded in the settings.

    You can also add them to Steam as non-steam game and enable compatibility mode in the settings.



  • Got involved in drama for having a more nuanced view on something everyone is screaming about. Tempted to add Lemmy to the list of social media I’m not allowed to look at when I wake up…

    Other than that, spoke with my counsellor and I think I’m getting better at taking care of myself and giving myself space. So that’s good.

    Also got some seeds and strawberry plants and planted the later. It’s windy outside, so I hope they’ll be okay overnight.

    Oh, and played some Escape Sim with some friends, which was fun.