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  • Otter@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.mlInstalled homebrew on wii
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    2 months ago

    Neat! I’m somewhat familiar with homebrew but I haven’t kept up with it in years. I didn’t know you could put Linux on it too

    I wonder how it would do as a media center for the living room. I’d much rather use a Wii remote to navigate on a TV instead of buttons.

    Being able to play Jellyfin off of it somehow would be amazing, I imagine it will need a custom app. Possibly based off of this thing? https://www.wiimc.org/about/











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    Do this in order:

    1. Install with LUKS full-disk encryption and Btrfs subvolumes for @ and @home so snaps are atomic.

    2. Enable automatic snapshots with Timeshift or snapper.

    3. Export your package lists:

      • Debian/Ubuntu: dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt
      • Arch: pacman -Qqe > pkglist.txt
      • also flatpak list --app > flatpaks.txt
    4. Put your dotfiles under version control and manage them with chezmoi or GNU Stow.

    5. Use Flatpak for GUI apps, containerized toolchains (podman) for dev environments, and keep only system-critical packages in the distro manager.

    6. Back up with Borg: borg init --encryption=repokey /path/to/repo ; borg create repo::$(date +%F) /home /etc --stats ; borg prune --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4 --keep-monthly=6

    7. Keep a small, bootable USB with the exact kernel/tools you use so you can unlock LUKS and mount Btrfs snapshots.

    8. Test restores quarterly: restore a snapshot to a spare partition and boot it. Do that for a year and tell me reinstalling is fun again.