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I somehow broke my Debian bookworm install…(lemmy.world)

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It’s not really broken, couldn’t get the microphone to work with any program

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Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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Use Timeshift, use Timeshift, use Timeshift.

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SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
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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?

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caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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What
In the off chance that this isn’t a joke, does your distro really not have timeshift binaries?

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SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
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It’s a joke

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Sabata@ani.social
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I have saved 3 reinstall or 1 week of troubleshooting in only 3 “fuck around and find out” incidents.

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rovingnothing29@lemmy.world
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I guess I’m the only one timeshift always fails for.

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powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de
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saved me when I deleted the wrong partition.

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Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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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.

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