Nothing like disabling the screen in the BIOS/UEFI. Guaranteed adrenaline
ddstands for disk destroyer.It’s a true Unix tool: it does one thing really well and it’s up to the user to not fuck it up. Always double check the if= and of= before you hit enter on a dd! That’s how power works and I’d rather have power over my computer than have it be the other way around.
Yes, I’ve fucked up a few dd commands over the years. Lessons learned.
One thing I miss from Reddit is that all this software/hardware supremacy bullshit died out years ago.
I’m so fucking sick of these memes
I was on LinuxMasterRace, i’m not done yet.
As GNU/Linux user, I don’t like this meme too. I’ve seen this so many times that it’s not funny anymore. And if it was, it should be posted to c/linuxmemes, not here.
Never visited r/linuxmemes?
I have no beef with folks circle jerking in their own space, go for it. But having it constantly hammered in my feed is just annoying and toxic. May as well get in arguments about whose dad could beat up whose.
I don’t know why, but there’s a LOT of Linux users on here. Feels like it’s half tech nerds/programmer types.
look at mr “I never deleted the bootloader” here
Bad time for a typo. Can’t*
Thank you corrected it
The fun part is that I’ve actually done the “delete the bootloader” on purpose. We did it for operating systems class and then manually did the disk partition calculations to directly write a new bootloader into place. Once you’ve done that a few times you start to really really understand how the superblock, bootloader, and partitions work.
I had a dream the other night that I accidentally deleted the ls command and it broke a bunch of shit on my linux server.
Yet it still booted, and my mdadm raid array was still intact. I had to boot from a live CD to copy the command over.
As someone who knows enough about linux to run a ubuntu file server, but has never contributed to a meaningful open source project in his life, is this something that can actually happen?
Sure. There’s a story around somewhere of someone deleting basically all of /bin and was able to recover the live system
Yep, this was me a few weeks ago. I was running widows and linux dualboot on separate hard drives. I decided to reformat the windows drive since I was never using it. Apparently I had installed the bootloader to the drive which windows was on…
Yes. Also happened to me. Linux distros also do this (if you didn’t specify a separate boot partition), so next time you need to erase an OS, go into that partition, and remove the folder corresponding to the OS like “Windows” or “Ubuntu”.
Rm /bin/rm
When I first started using Arch Linux I swear I deleted my bootloader on accident like 4 times lol.
This joke is explained with a story by Neal Stephenson in his “The Hole Hawg of Operating systems”. It’s a short, but great read: http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html
To quote:
“But I never blamed the Hole Hawg; I blamed myself. The Hole Hawg is dangerous because it does exactly what you tell it to. It is not bound by the physical limitations that are inherent in a cheap drill, and neither is it limited by safety interlocks that might be built into a homeowner’s product by a liability-conscious manufacturer. The danger lies not in the machine itself but in the user’s failure to envision the full consequences of the instructions he gives to it.”
I mean, there’s a reason they don’t let you delete system32 anymore
It’s like one of the earliest troubleshooting joke memes. It just so happens people actually did that, and not because they wanted to do that.
But like on earlier versions of Windows you could absolutely delete any folder on the drive. I think there’s even a story about an uninstaller that accidentally deleted the entire root of the drive because it wasn’t written correctly.
The solution should be restricting such actions to root/admin, not preventing them entirely though.
I have done this a few days ago and im still struggling to set it back up but I like the freedom
All fun and games until immutable systems are the future of Linux
Just wondering, but is there anything regarding packages or flatpaks (and variants of them) that would make immutable systems a requirement in order to use your applications, or would it still be possible to use a regular distro?
I’m sure there wouldn’t really be any complaints regarding 90% of linux users using immutable systems, as long as applications weren’t “locked in” to using those exclusively.
Microsoft and Android have entered the chat
did you say immutable fun and games? We’re in!
If you’re running Linux with the French language add-on installed, you can delete it:
rm -fr /
Windows: “I’m trying really hard to be your friend, please love me”
Linux: “Lol you wanna fuck around and find out? Go ahead dude IDGAF”
FYI, Windows 3.11 let one fuck around in this way.
