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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • To add on to this answer (which is correct):

    Your “of” can also just be a regular file if that’s easier to work with vs needing to create a new partition for the copy.

    I’ll also say you might want to use the block size parameter “bs=” on “dd” to speed things up, especially if you are using fast storage. Using “dd” with “bs=1G” will speed things up tremendously if you have at least >1GB of RAM.









  • Author of the tool here! If you are okay letting me know the instance, I can definitely take a look and see if I can figure out the issue. I might need to make an account though.

    There’s lots of Lemmy instances, and I’m always finding new quirks with different configs. But it’ll help the next person who might run into the same thing!


  • Author here! I’ve been posting about it a good bit, and especially with the hack of .world and vlemmy’s disappearance, now others have started sharing it too. Besides myself testing it with lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, and lemm.ee, I’ve seen at least a handful of people that say they’ve run it without issues. I’m assuming the real number is much higher but there isn’t any tracking in the app, or even a download counter, so I really have no idea.

    Only known issue at the minute is whether it works on Mac OS X. It theoretically does, but the only person who attempted it ran into issues where OS X wanted to open it as a text file instead of running the program - and it’s the only platform I can’t test myself.

    Obviously if you do have any issues you can report them on GitHub.