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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • Around 2007 I had a Windows laptop die on me and drove me to device agnosticism. Maybe I learned the wrong lesson but now I keep my OS and data separate enough that a b0rked OS is an hour’s inconvenience instead of a day’s recovery.

    Still, it’s pretty awesome that you can just shuck a drive into a totally new machine and only have to adjust network settings.









  • Taken from ‘Don’t Break Debian’

    Take notes

    It’s easy to forget the steps you took to do something on your computer, especially several months later when you’re trying to upgrade. Sometimes when you try several different ways of solving a problem, it’s easy to forget which method was successful the next day!

    It’s a very good idea to take notes about the software you’ve installed and configuration changes you’ve made. When editing configuration files, it’s also a very good idea to include comments in the file explaining the reason for the changes and the date they were made.

    Taking good notes will save your as so many times. Good notes are as important as good backups.

    https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Take_notes