Phanatik

The payment model is largely irrelevant. The feature by design is a privacy nightmare so it being even an option available to users is dangerous. How they thought they’d get this past the EU is beyond me.

What the Conservatives hope to do is call anyone who opposes this a paedophile.

Looks great, I’ll give it a bash

One of the simplest ways to safeguard against breakage is to have your /home on a separate partition. I realised I wouldn’t need to backup and reformat it from the beginning, I just need to wipe the root drive and reinstall again.

It’s made even easier by writing an installation script. Simply put, you can pipe a list of packages into packstrap and use a little convenience package for pulling a partition scheme out of a file.

I like to tinker and I’m aware that things will break so I have these tools that let me rebuild the system again in as short a time as possible.