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    I somehow broke my Debian bookworm install… (lemmy.world)
    submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    It’s not really broken, couldn’t get the microphone to work with any program

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    [–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Use Timeshift, use Timeshift, use Timeshift.

    [–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    Ok. I’ve downloaded, tar and gunzipped the files for it.

    Then did a make build and then make install. Now my system won’t start. What do I do?

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    What
    In the off chance that this isn't a joke, does your distro really not have timeshift binaries?

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

    It’s a joke

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

    I have saved 3 reinstall or 1 week of troubleshooting in only 3 "fuck around and find out" incidents.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    saved me when I deleted the wrong partition.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

    Same, it's saved my butt so many times. Once in the middle of a tech conference, I was messing around in the terminal with my networking and borked something really bad.

    I spent 5 minutes trying to get my networking back but couldn't figure out what I had screwed up and ended up breaking it more.

    I just went into Timeshift and restored to the beginning of that day and in a few minutes I was back up like nothing had happened.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

    I guess I'm the only one timeshift always fails for.