The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 19 hours agoYou don't have to be so bashful media.piefed.worldimagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1712arrow-down13
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minus-squareDaddleDew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-216 hours agoMe: Hey Linux can you ________ ? Linux: OK, I trust that you know what you’re doing. It’s on you if it breaks something. That’s how a computer should work.
minus-squareomgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·13 hours agoMe: I’m going to remove the boot device Linux: lol sure thing boss
minus-squareDevjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-217 hours agorm -rf / You sure? Yes. Okeee-
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-216 hours agoWell no, that command won’t work. You need to run: rm -rf / --no-preserve-root
minus-squareDevjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·16 hours ago That is distribution specific. I’m not just gonna post a command like that so some idiot can paste it into their terminal to see what happens.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·16 hours ago Ah, good to know! If they are running ramdom commands from the internet in a privileged terminal, then this will quickly stop them doing that.
minus-squareNuclearDolphin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·13 hours ago If they are running ramdom commands from the internet in a privileged terminal, then this will quickly stop them doing that. does this “omg Linux is not user friendly”
minus-squareDevjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·16 hours ago True that, I had not thought of that.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·17 hours ago rm -rf / Were you sure? Ah, yes, the classic UNIX confirmation prompt.
minus-squareaubeynarf@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·17 hours agoha ha, no you deleted the inode, the file may still be open.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 hours agoDon’t worry, it’ll go away once that process is done with it.
Me: Hey Linux can you ________ ?
Linux: OK, I trust that you know what you’re doing. It’s on you if it breaks something.
That’s how a computer should work.
Me: I’m going to remove the boot device
Linux: lol sure thing boss
rm -rf /
You sure?
Yes.
Okeee-
Well no, that command won’t work.
You need to run:
does this
Were you sure?
Ah, yes, the classic UNIX confirmation prompt.
ha ha, no you deleted the inode, the file may still be open.
Don’t worry, it’ll go away once that process is done with it.