linuxmemesbyHello Hotel What is the worst way to break your system without deleting dataoopsView original on lemmy.world21Comments12
SSolidGrue replylemmy.worldIn the early days of ext2, it was possible to unlink("/") I also saw init() go zombie once. Had to hard cycle the system and pray fsck didn't frag anything.18
cyberic discuss.tchncs.deI hear if you privately run a Tor exit node, the FBI will make a free offsite data transfer14
sslippery_salmons lemmy.today1Hide 1 replyBricking your BIOS comes to mind. Physical damage, spills, etc.11
hameru replylemmy.blahaj.zoneRunning rm -rf /sys/firmware/efi/efivars and having a shitty motherboard incapable of recovering from it.9
chmod -R 000 /
In the early days of ext2, it was possible to
unlink("/")I also saw init() go zombie once. Had to hard cycle the system and pray fsck didn't frag anything.
Dont forget to chown to root,set all special bits and a+x
I hear if you privately run a Tor exit node, the FBI will make a free offsite data transfer
Bricking your BIOS comes to mind.
Physical damage, spills, etc.
Running
rm -rf /sys/firmware/efi/efivarsand having a shitty motherboard incapable of recovering from it.Copy few debian system files into your arch directory.
With a hammer.
Probably not the worst way but breaking the bootloader is definitely annoying.
Installing KDE on my EeePC 900 didn't work out too well
simple: sudo apt remove apt
apt 🔫 apt