Also it’s just wrong advice, since you explicitly need --no-preserve-root for it to work… /s
Jokes aside, please don’t troll anyone with things, that can have severe consequences. Yes, they should have a backup. Yes, they should know how to restore from it. Yes, they should have tested it prior. Yes, you shouldn’t blindly trust people online.
But even then: Assuming my backup works and I can easily revert the damage. Maybe I need to complete an assignment until tomorrow and just lost 1-2 hours because my PC was busy doing the restore? There’s always a high chance of collateral damage
I am not bullshitting with this: I had a classmate A and classmate B just last year, where A jokingly mentioned to B to do a rm -rf /* for a class project on a VM. I could not believe it myself, but B actually did it and laughter ensued… Luckily B had a VM backup.
Some people are really bad at empathy. They don’t actually, like, imagine the pain and confusion in the other person if they did unwittingly damage their computer. They’re thoughtless. That’s a lot of words to say “They’re kind of stupid.”
And some people do imagine the pain of the victim, and do it anyway. Those people should probably be on a watch list before they start killing small animals or shooting up a school.
Having moderated forums back in the day, I can answer to some of that motivation.
First, some people are just bullies. A sense of tribalism forms around bullies, who feel the need to act out and repeat the abuses they have endured. Hazing stems from this, too. Cruelty masked as “you should know better,” advice. Given too late.
Some have a smug sense of superiority, and want to keep it that way. Less smart people means they stay king of the mountain. Others are scared their own lack of knowledge will cripple them if they don’t keep the potential competition down. Insecurities drown out any sense of empathy.
Some people hate themselves so they punish others in retaliation. Like, trying to erase past cringe by making others hurt to even the score.
A few are sick of “the same fucking newbie questions again and again and again,” but still hang out in newbie forums for some reason.
Why would you tell people to run that command? You’re a bad person.
Also it’s just wrong advice, since you explicitly need
--no-preserve-rootfor it to work… /sJokes aside, please don’t troll anyone with things, that can have severe consequences. Yes, they should have a backup. Yes, they should know how to restore from it. Yes, they should have tested it prior. Yes, you shouldn’t blindly trust people online.
But even then: Assuming my backup works and I can easily revert the damage. Maybe I need to complete an assignment until tomorrow and just lost 1-2 hours because my PC was busy doing the restore? There’s always a high chance of collateral damage
if one would fall for this, do you really think that they know how to backup and restore backups?
I am not bullshitting with this: I had a classmate A and classmate B just last year, where A jokingly mentioned to B to do a rm -rf /* for a class project on a VM. I could not believe it myself, but B actually did it and laughter ensued… Luckily B had a VM backup.
Sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/*will fix your disk?Sudo: command not foundIsn’t auto capitalization a bitch 🫠
Ok you made me spit out my drink. Good job.
You deserve points for creativity
Yeah, I don’t know if it’s recursive or even if it even accepts wildcards but it’s probably best if it doesn’t work.
don’t need
--no-preserve-rootif you use/*Some people are really bad at empathy. They don’t actually, like, imagine the pain and confusion in the other person if they did unwittingly damage their computer. They’re thoughtless. That’s a lot of words to say “They’re kind of stupid.”
And some people do imagine the pain of the victim, and do it anyway. Those people should probably be on a watch list before they start killing small animals or shooting up a school.
It’s a joke dude, on my part, and I’m sure on OPs part.
it may be a joke answer, but then there are those described by the commentor who take joy and glee from it.
Yeah, but it’s posted in Linuxmemes, if it were posted anywhere else I would warn people about running the command.
It removes the french languagepack
Having moderated forums back in the day, I can answer to some of that motivation.
First, some people are just bullies. A sense of tribalism forms around bullies, who feel the need to act out and repeat the abuses they have endured. Hazing stems from this, too. Cruelty masked as “you should know better,” advice. Given too late.
Some have a smug sense of superiority, and want to keep it that way. Less smart people means they stay king of the mountain. Others are scared their own lack of knowledge will cripple them if they don’t keep the potential competition down. Insecurities drown out any sense of empathy.
Some people hate themselves so they punish others in retaliation. Like, trying to erase past cringe by making others hurt to even the score.
A few are sick of “the same fucking newbie questions again and again and again,” but still hang out in newbie forums for some reason.