What is the worst way to break your system without deleting data
What is the worst way to break your system without deleting data
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bash
sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/mem
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chmod -R 000 /
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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.
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Dont forget to chown to root,set all special bits and a+x
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I hear if you privately run a Tor exit node, the FBI will make a free offsite data transfer
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Copy few debian system files into your arch directory.
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Bricking your BIOS comes to mind.
Physical damage, spills, etc.
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Running
rm -rf /sys/firmware/efi/efivarsand having a shitty motherboard incapable of recovering from it.
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With a hammer.
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Probably not the worst way but breaking the bootloader is definitely annoying.
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Installing KDE on my EeePC 900 didn't work out too well
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simple: sudo apt remove apt
apt 🔫 apt
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