IMHO there is no point backing up an OS drive, just rebuild it*.

Data is the important thing to back up because you usually can’t regenerate it.

* the corollary here is that you’ve backed up the configuration required to rebuild the OS.

In the spirit of this thread: no.

Recovering with the backup should put you back to an operational state equivalent to when the backup was taken.

I.e. if you’ve restored some files, but something is still not working then the backup failed its purpose.

E.g. the timestamps on the files might be important, do they need to be stamped with the time of the backup or the time of the restore?

Oh that is clever.

Does curl send a different useragent when it’s piped?

Searching for those words just vomits ‘hOW to SeT cUrL’s UseRaGenT’ blog spam.

Once upon a time, when you logged in you arrived at the desktop. Then typically you’d click a docked application icon or use the hot corner to open the overview (Apple calls it exposé on macOS) and search for an application to start. Some people would just hit the keyboard shortcut and start typing an application name. Very quick.

One day, the gnome team decided that since a lot of people do this, that immediately after logging in you’d arrive directly at this overview/exposé mode ready to type an app name.

Quite a few people didn’t like this change, and requested a setting so they could enable/disable it as was their preference. The response from the gnome team was essentially ‘get fucked’ enshrouded by weak/nonsense justifications for the change and for not making it optional, apparently taking the request as some kind of personal attack.

It was a trivial minor change but the way the team handled it was… lacking.

I like gnome DE, I dislike the arrogance of the project team.

My straw was the login-to-exposé thing.

And the Google dudes too?

They’re all the same: billionaires.