I swear by ddrescue. It’s a situation I strive to never be but i’ve been there before. I used it once to rescue an employees masters capstone project from their dead work laptop.

Oh MediaTracker looks nice, thanks!

It’s definitely still useful and easier to do now too. SpaceX and Tesla both allegedly use it to catch leakers. It’s usually done now with whitespace and/or invisible characters.

Look into using GNU stow! It’s exactly what you’re doing but it creates the symlinks for you.

I love this solution, I’ve been using it for years. I had previously just been using the home directory is a git repo approach, and it never quite felt natural to me and came with quite a few annoyances. Adding stow to the mix was exactly what I needed.

Durability is a big concern for me as well. I bought a Pixel 2 at launch and had it until June of this year, almost 6 years. It was still in decent shape, but the battery had become unreliable and the cost of paying someone to replace it and fix the cracked screen was almost as much as a new in box Pixel 5. Hopefully my Pixel 5 will also last me a similarly long time.

What kind of problems have you had with your 6?

I’ve used ledger on and off for a few years. I use it along with ledger-autosync to process the transaction files I download from Amazon, Paypal, and my bank. I haven’t gone so far as to automate the import of those files, I just download them manually, but it does support that.

I try not too think about it 😬

I would guess everything together is around 800 Watts