The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 29 days agoYou don't have to be so bashful media.piefed.worldimagemessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1798arrow-down15
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minus-squareDaddleDew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-229 days 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-up7·29 days agoMe: I’m going to remove the boot device Linux: lol sure thing boss
minus-squareDevjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-229 days agorm -rf / You sure? Yes. Okeee-
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·29 days ago rm -rf / Were you sure? Ah, yes, the classic UNIX confirmation prompt.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-229 days agoWell no, that command won’t work. You need to run: rm -rf / --no-preserve-root
minus-squareDevjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·29 days 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-up13·29 days 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-up4·29 days 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-up7·29 days ago True that, I had not thought of that.
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-
Were you sure?
Ah, yes, the classic UNIX confirmation prompt.
Well no, that command won’t work.
You need to run:
does this