JWBananas
What a great idea! They should automate something like that! Maybe they could call it System Restore?
This is one of the issues that systemd purports to solve, and it gets nothing but flack for it.
Granted, systemd does have its flaws. But the religious war around it is unjustified.
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Take it up with Tennessee Williams.
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
systemctl disable systemd-critic.service
Systemd-init, the core part of systemd, offersa wide range of features surpassing other init systems. More features lead to more bugs and security vulnerabilities.
This is a bad take. Many of systemd's features improve security significantly. And having all that code in one cohesive place can't possibly be inherently less secure than the cornucopia of init scripts we used to use.
And if the backup was merged into existing contacts, just take a new one. Then you can purge all contacts instead of trying to sort through the broken ones.