Freedom

Obligatory reminder to remove the French language pack:

sudo rm -fr /*

I mean... You're not wrong. If there's a French language pack on the system, it will remove it.

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Along with everything else.
I add a -v because I like to watch.
- You sick Bastard.
alias trash-put from trash-cli in both sudo and user.

myrm() { trash-put "$@" } alias rm="myrm"

This has saved my ass so many times. Especially when typing "rm * .png" instead of "rm *.png"

Can restore the files using the cli or from system recycling bin.

The alias to rm is probably not best. So getting use to using another name is probably best. But I'm never had a problem with it.
- That feeling where rm is taking a while to return to the prompt
- Or just use snapshots. If you are into aliases make an alias for rm to make a snapshot before deleting something.
- I've never ran into any issues from using rm but I like this idea and will be using it as I only see positives
My brother did this accidentally... twice... Don't ask me how you manage to do this twice...
help
- Did you actually run it?
  
  In this case, I hope you had a backup. Boot a live system to see if there's anything left. Back that up, then reinstall.
make sure to add --no-preserved-root to make sure to update all the English libraries too so you can make sure only freedom fries are respected.
- Not necessary with /* Only needed if you do rm -rf /
- No preserved root because candied ginger is gross

I think you mean:

sudo I want to delete everything to corrupt my system

sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=$(df | grep '\s/$' | cut -d' ' -f1)

(Omit the $ if you are using the fish terminal)
- One good use for AI was a great breakdown of what exactly that command does. I like it.

I just uninstalled edge on my laptop (still windows for work/study compatability)

EU laws!

It will be back on next update😭
- And in larger numbers.
- Even with the "proper" uninstall I can do now? noooo, I thought that was only for deleting the files!

accidentally deleted every dependency VLC requires instead of deleting VLC. Absolutely recked EVERYTHING on my PC.

I deserve it for trying to remove the best video player 😔

Remove and reinstall VLC should install all the dependencies, yeah?
I managed to remove all the kernels instead of all the old kernels. It was a good learning experience fixing it later, and now I pay much more attention when apt warns about "potentially dangerous operations".
@TriflingToad @azha apt moment...

Linux is not free like in "freeware" but in "free to fuck yourself if you want"

It's both. Free as in free beer (gratis) and free as in freedom (libre).
Free as in climbing
- Free as in fallin'?

I once tried to delete something I was not supposed to and the system was quite adamant on advising against it. The system was to be reinstalled so I was just trying things.

It's been a while but I recall the system giving me a first warning that my command woud delete X, Y and Z, which could render the system inoperable.

Then it questioned me if I was sure I wanted to proceed with the operation.

The final warning was a sum of the potential damage I would do to the system and that it would be irreversible, without a full system install.

So, three strikes.

I remember when windows would let you delete system32 but not Internet Explorer.

As a user, I hate when an OS gets in my way. Or insists that there is one right way to do something.

As the tech support guy in my family, I'm grateful that windows denies permission, has big guard rails, and forces you to do updates.

Bruh. For how many years did Windows make every luddite, child, and grandparent default Administrator with full, unprompted access to install viruses, run scripts, and delete system files?
Nah. Fuck forced updates. Only time I'm forced to use windows is for work.

I have to play the "low battery" game when it starts notifying me during work. Unplugging and repowering the laptop right below 10% so it won't restart and disconnect my VM and SSH sessions I'm using for work.

I don't care what anyone says. Updates that can't have a forever "give me 1 more hour" indefinitely are just going to destroy work.

Suddenly restarting in the middle of someone working is just awful design. I don't care how many "warnings" there are.

I'm connected to a remote session and doing work. If you restart my computer I could lose my work. The OS is not some self contained thing you can always save the state in.
- Unplugging and repowering the laptop right below 10% so it won’t restart and disconnect my VM and SSH sessions I’m using for work.
  
  For SSH, assuming that the remote system is Linux, run tmux on the remote system and do your work in that. If your SSH connection gets killed off, you just ssh back in and tmux attach to your old tmux session.
I suppose immutable systems are ment to stop the end user from bugging out the system but even regular Linux distrios need to assume that there users are incompetent cus I am.
- I managed to destroy my immutable linux install by resizing the OS partition while it was running.

sudo apt remove grub

Single use linux.
E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system.

You can still do it if you really want, but even Linux rightly has some protections against breaking your system.
- I do want to clarify: it's not Linux itself, but specific distributions (or rather their package managers). As far as I know, Arch's pacman would do nothing to stop me 🥰
I might be wrong, but I think that actually wouldn't do anything, because grub is installed by the tooling from the package, not the package itself?
- Try it and report back

While great, we should also have some safe guards so normies can use linux without destroying their entire system

I once forgot to install the Linux package when I was installing Arch on a system. Linux even let's you not use Linux, if you like.

It didn't boot.

Narrator: "Turned out Windows never needed Edge to work"

It doesn't even need it to show you ads on your purchased OS, they just do it to be dicks.

yes, do as I say!

I did this once by accident, I deleted every file that had KDE as a dependency recursively. As well as every file that KDE listed as a dependency, recursively.

Lesson learnt

You can't kill windows with windows but you can kill Linux with Linux. Remember that.
- You can definitely kill window with windows,it's just done through the GUI and it's a messy operation, like killing a whale with a chainsaw.

Android: screenshot dir? Use DIRECTORY_PICTURES env variable. Changing either? Lol, eat dirt pleb.

Yup. And I've seen countless "articles" by trust-me-i-am-it-guru's whining that this is allowed

That’s not true. Most distros now ask you to add —no-preserve-root

Have you tried to add * to the path? No more nagging about that pesky missing safety parameter...

rm -fr /*

Bonus points of you do:

rm -fr $ACCIDENTIALLY_UNDEFINED_VAR/*
- Reminds me of when a script released by Valve did just this back in the day.
- Well, technically those aren’t the same command (but works well enough if you’re trying to render a system unusable).
  
  rm -rf /* would not remove /.secret. It rm -rf / would

Just gotta say sudo

And everything and your entire PC is under your control