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PFM said:
Reading the Github page it's funny that they mention alpha beta delta etc.... snapshots but nowhere does it explain what that means

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The docs are pretty shit for some reason. The alpha beta delta in the docs are simply placeholders. You can change the name in the conf file to something that makes more sense like hourly, weekly, monthly. It's basically a function call to run rnsapshot. You then make a cron file for rsnapshot to run at the intervals you want.
 
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PFM said:
Any suggestions on an easy to use Back In Time alternative? I just need something to back up /home on a schedule, ability to exclude what i want, and auto-delete of old backups.
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Why fiddle with small half solutions, when there's a huge everything solution? Switch to ZFS and set up autosnapshots. Then, set up syncoid to automatically duplicate your snapshots on an offsite storage array.
 
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Why do some devs out there outright refuse to comply with the XDG Base Directory spec? It seems like game-related projects are worse for this typically but sometimes there will be some useful software package that just dumps yet another directory in the middle of $HOME instead of following a relatively decent standard. Surely I'm not the only one annoyed by this, am I?
 
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Why do some devs out there outright refuse to comply with the XDG Base Directory spec? It seems like game-related projects are worse for this typically but sometimes there will be some useful software package that just dumps yet another directory in the middle of $HOME instead of following a relatively decent standard. Surely I'm not the only one annoyed by this, am I?
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Worst, just write to /home/$USER for some reason instead of just using $HOME.
 
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Another Char Clone said:
Worst, just write to /home/$USER for some reason instead of just using $HOME.
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Could be worse. Microsoft still has tonnes of software dumping state data in C:/Software, ~/Documents/My Games, ~/Documents/My Saved Games, ~/Documents/Software, ~/Documents/Saved Games, etc etc. There are also five .locals for some reason, ~/AppData/Local, ~/AppData/LocalLow, ~/AppData/Roaming, ~/Application Data, and ~/LocalSettings.
 
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Is anyone compiling a list of distros that didn't change their twitter account for pride month? If not, is there any other list of based distros I could start using to get into Linux? Thread tax:
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Miller said:
Linux Mint.
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I wanted something for an oldebook with 4GB of RAM. I've read that Cinnamon is heavy on resource usage so I was thinking something with Xfce, Mate or Lxde. Are there any based distros that specialize in those desktops?

Also, anti-Israel still means pro-Palestine and there are plenty of "proud" Palestinians on woke twitter who still aren't proud enough to stay in their own country and instead live in the US and live the woke slacktivist life. If some Linux dev's heart is bleeding for them when many other countries face worse problems, I don't think that dev is quite alright in his head.
 
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Administrator Flotsam said:
Is anyone compiling a list of distros that didn't change their twitter account for pride month?
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Alpine didn't. It's a very light-weight distro, mostly used for container images, but it is apparently a decent daily driver if you set it up right. I'm planning on trying it out at some point.

In fact, now I look again, it seems none of the majors have changed their twitter avatars this time around. Interesting.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
In fact, now I look again, it seems none of the majors have changed their twitter avatars this time around. Interesting.
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suse got into it over the rainbow-banner they never turned off, to the point some board-member called conservatives "rotten flesh" in the mailing-list and go full reddit afterwards. not changing their twitter avatars doesn't mean much really...
 
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Administrator Flotsam said:
Is anyone compiling a list of distros that didn't change their twitter account for pride month? If not, is there any other list of based distros I could start using to get into Linux? Thread tax:
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Garuda Linux didn’t rainbowfy either Twitter or their forums.
teriyakiburns said:
In fact, now I look again, it seems none of the majors have changed their twitter avatars this time around. Interesting.
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Must have smelt blood in the rainbow infested water and decided to give it a pass this year.
 
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Administrator Flotsam said:
I wanted something for an oldebook with 4GB of RAM. I've read that Cinnamon is heavy on resource usage so I was thinking something with Xfce, Mate or Lxde. Are there any based distros that specialize in those desktops?
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For a simple turn key solution I have found Lubuntu to work great on old and slow hardware. I have been able to run a windows 7 VM through qemu on Lubuntu on a laptop with 4gb ram and intel celeron.
 
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