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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • If you don't know, or aren't sure. Backup everything if you have the space. Once you've hit a couple of disaster scenarios, it will become apparent what stuff is really important.

    Obviously, the stuff you can't recreate otherwise is most important. But apart from that, even the stuff you can recreate from other sources might be worth backing up because of time savings. E.g. faster to restore from backup than to recreate.


  • Back when I was still using Gentoo, configuring your own kernel was a rite of passage. It was kind of fun to try and configure it as minimalist as possible to cut down on the kernel compile time. Also, understanding all the different options and possibilities. And thanks to use flags, you had access to all these different patch sets for the kernel, which took a lot of the pain out of trying things like experimental schedulers or filesystems.