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Why not reinstall?

You may have seen that the premier advice online whenever literally anything goes wrong is to reinstall Windows. No, don't reset or refresh - wipe your hard drive and reinstall the entire OS. Windows can't be trusted to unbreak invariants.

What are invariants?

For non-technical users, "invariants" are rules that must apply in order for an operating system to work correctly. This includes things like file & folder permissions being correct. These invariants are sometimes broken which result in one or more parts of your working system becoming nonworking.

Windows is famously bad at repairing broken invariants, which is why the advice is typically that you need to reinstall the entire thing - to get a fresh new system with all the invariants upheld.

Preface

There are many ways to back up your computer. In order from least effective to most effective, we have:

Copy all the files manually to another disk periodically. (Optionally, use an automated tool for this, like rsync.)

This sucks. Most of the time you don't even preserve permissions. Plus it's horribly error-prone. And you also can't restore a working system from it.
Image your entire boot drive.

Update #2

I was able to rebuild perf in order to make it work. My previous version of perf was built with these features:

...                         dwarf: [ OFF ]
...            dwarf_getlocations: [ OFF ]
...                         glibc: [ on  ]
...                        libbfd: [ OFF ]
...                libbfd-buildid: [ OFF ]

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	import {DependencyList, useCallback, useDebugValue, useRef} from 'react'
	import useForceUpdate from 'use-force-update'

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	* of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	* in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
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	import {Disposable} from 'event-kit'

	export const DISABLE: unique symbol
	export const STDOUT: unique symbol
	export const STDERR: unique symbol

	// May be one of:
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	package net.logandark.languagehack

	import com.google.gson.Gson
	import com.google.gson.JsonObject
	import net.fabricmc.loader.api.FabricLoader
	import net.logandark.languagehack.mixin.MixinLanguage
	import net.minecraft.util.JsonHelper
	import net.minecraft.util.Language
	import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.util.Closer
	import java.io.InputStreamReader

	// This is JXA, i.e. you can't run it with plain `node`. Use `osascript` or the Script Editor.
	// I recommend exporting it to an `.app` and running it at login if you have my same issue.
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