oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]

Sure, maybe I was a little ambitious. But my point is mistakes can bring learning, so it might be worth it to try something “hard”. Trying things in a virtual machine is also often a good idea.

Attempt an Arch install entirely from memory. You might want to try this in a VM, in case something goes wrong, but just do it. If you can’t quite remember what to do, man and ls /bin are your friends.

linux from scratch /s

Linux Mint is good, Pop_OS! is good, Fedora is good.

restic to a local server and to cloud storage. it varies by device, but usually just everything in /home/. The rest of the operating system should be reproducible, whether through images, ansible, nix, or guix, given the information in /home/.

scheduling is done through systemd, usually (or the non-systemd equivalent). I use BackBlaze now, but I switch around occasionally. restic has policy based snapshot removal, and a prune option.