On 3/2/25 14:46, Chris Green wrote:
Anssi Saari <anssi.sa...@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:
Eben King <e...@gmx.us> writes:
Normally I hibernate, and while it's hibernated, boot off a thumb drive
and back up (either by partition or the whole drive) to a dedicated
drive. The idea is if my main drive takes a dump, I could replace it
with the backup drive, boot, and be on my merry way. After the backup
has completed, I resume and it's right where I left off.
So you actually back up the hibernated / partition? Is that really a
sound backup strategy? Seems risky to me but if it works I guess it's
fine.
With modern systems booting so fast I wonder why anyone bothers with
hibernate or sleep.
I would just shut down, except that certain sites I frequent (*ahem*
youtube) insist on this "infinite scrolling" thing. If you're two dozen
"end"s into a channel's back catalog and you restart Firefox, it doesn't
start where you were, it starts you at the top. If they had real pages
with separate URLs for each one, then it'd be a non-issue. Reddit does
it too, but at least for that there's a browser plugin that gives you
the option of disabling it.
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