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@linux thank God for Timeshift

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[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Calling a Lemmy community from Mastodon like that makes it look really crappy on Lemmy side (and even worse in an app).

Can you post directly to Lemmy?

[–] bahmanm@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

I agree w/ you RE posts looking horrible 👍

Though I'd say for one-liners like this, it's mostly OK. It gets really messy when folks post more complex posts and mention and tag a bunch of times.

[–] VENMusica@mastodon.social -3 points 1 year ago

@Blizzard didn't realize I was doing that. To be honest I hate Lemmy and will probably unsub Lemmy accounts

[–] throwawayish@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Let's not forget to praise Snapper as well.

[–] VENMusica@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] throwawayish@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Snapper offers basically the same functionality as Timeshift and is -to my knowledge- developed by openSUSE's team. So, while finding it therefore pre-configured on say openSUSE Tumbleweed makes sense, it's also the preferred solution on some other distros like Garuda Linux, Siduction and Spiral Linux.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Saved my butt many times.