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What is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal?

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Turbula@lemmy.ml
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sudo apt install gnome

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jbaber@lemmy.sdf.org
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sudo apt remove ratpoison

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chaogomu@kbin.social
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That wouldn’t work on my system.

Typing apt just opens the man page for pacman.

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misophist@lemmy.world
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btw

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electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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vim

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manualoverride@lemmy.world
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Emotional damage

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Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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Everyone else talking about how to shred files or even the BIOS is missing a big leap, yeah. Not just destroying the computer: destroying the person in front of it! And vim is happy to provide. 😅

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TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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True, just entering vim on a pc for a user who doesn’t know about vim’s existence is basically a prison sentence. They will literally be trapped in vim hell until they power down their PC.

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electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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I once entered vim into a computer. I couldn’t exit. I tried unplugging the computer but vim persisted. I took it to the dump, where I assume vim is still running to this very day.

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nodsocket@lemmy.world
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./self_destruct.sh

Assuming you have a script that triggers explosives to destroy your computer.

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Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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That’s nothing compared to:

./fire_ze_missiles.sh

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slazer2au@lemmy.world
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Reminds me of those Defcon talks where they discover it’s really hard to pack a HDD killing device into a 2ru server.

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comrade_pibb [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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sudo panman -Syu with a caveat: just read the news feed

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pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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real arch linux user would know to have a rescue live usb handy in the event the system becomes unbootable.

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katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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sudo apt install microsoft-edge-stable

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Urist@lemmy.ml
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Look, a heretic!

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nixcamic@lemmy.world
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I actually like Edge more than Chrome.

I don’t use either, die-hard Firefox user for decades but if I’m forced to pick one…

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TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
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There’s so many good features in Edge. It genuinely sucks that Microsoft is ruining their stuff with popups and forced defaults because Edge and their other software have a lot of thought and care put into them.

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u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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heyoni@lemm.ee
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flashgnash@lemm.ee
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I actually use it on NixOS

Gotta use teams for work and it functions least poorly in edge

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psmgx@lemmy.world
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Is it really available in a Debian or Ubuntu repo?

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katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
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It’s probably helpful for webdevs

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DudeDudenson@lemmings.world
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Does it have the internet explorer compatibility mode?

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