To he fair, it is removing the french language pack (if installed).
Well, technically yeah. But at what cost?
I removed the French language pack
What did it cost you?
Everything
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None. Just profit.
pan to Thanos
Perfectly balanced hard drive platters, as it should be.
All the things
she said 🎶
I just se saved 206 GiB on my drive. Thanks!
Who knew the funny diacritics used so much storage?
sudo rm -fr /*is short forsudo rm --for-real /*Super-do real-magic --for-real /* (<- that’s a magic wand)
Lmaooooo
Su means substitute user, not super user
I thought it begins a comment.
Only in C languages
Remember that AI answer that said that adding -f option was to get a confirmation before deletion ?
I’m a bit concerned that this kind of meme will get a lot more real when people will blindly trust AI for commands.
Unfortunately I couldn’t find the post in question but if I recall it was GitHub AI telling boldly that you can add -f to your RM command to get a confirmation…
Read the man people. RTFM is still a good advice.
I mean.
People have been saying “press alt F4 to change your IRC nick” or whatever for several decadesAnd didn’t make an IOS upgrade back in the days the iPhone waterproof? And another one enabled fast charging in the microwave oven…
The fact that manufacturers feel the need to put warnings that encompass this kind of stupidity on their product tells you all you need to know, doesn’t it.
Wasn’t there a woman who tried to dry her little dog in the microwave, sued the company and won, because they never explicitely stated not to put live animals in there?
I hope that story isn’t true, but most warning labels exist for a reason, and that reason isn’t common sense.
Classics
Or, a bit more recent, telling someone in WoW that command to do something was /camp (it logs you out)
-force -recursive but I like the way you think
don’t forget
no-preserve-rootto remove all the roots and prevent it from getting reinstalledsince it affects /* and not /
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‘root’ referred to the Fr*nch root words
for real
-fr fr
–no-cap
–on-god
–fax
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A little more destructive 😅
“As a ‘super user’, do ‘remove’ with ‘force’ and ‘recursively’ everything starting from the beginning of the hard drive (‘/‘)Though I think most consumer Linux OS has like 2-3 warnings before actually doing it……… doesn’t stop everybody 😅
In Linux, the root of the filesystem is /
The command would remove recursively every file/directory in the filesystem, essentially nuking the whole system.
Im not sure if it would delete the whole system. Isn’t it more likely that it will destroy everything until it kills a file/directory necessary for the operation to run?
Its running in ram so no, it would destroy everything.
What’s worse is if you have any storage mounted. I’ve known people who wiped there backups
Thats rough. Good to know. Also one reason why I ever only connect to storage when I need it and dismount when I don’t and don’t save the credentials (and have another backup off site).
The reason you expect this is because Windows has a file lock behaviour that won’t let you delete a file when it’s in use, in Linux this limitation doesn’t exist.
Raymond Chan, arguably one of the best software engineers in the world, and a Microsoft employee, has repeatedly lamented the near malware like work arounds developers have had to invent to overcome this limitation with uninstallers.
Think about uninstalling a game. You need to run “uninstall.exe” but you don’t want uninstall.exe to exist after you’ve run it… but you can’t delete a file that’s in use. Uninstall.exe will always be in use when you run it….so how do you make it remove itself?
Schedule a task? Side load a process? Inject a process? Many ways…. But most look like malware.
Linux has never suffered this flaw.
This seems like a pretty specific use case, but also pretty common. A system function to delete the file that called it should cover that entirely, but I guess psudo-malware is acceptable?
Pseudo-malware is pretty much the way to go as a developer in my experience.
I believe his suggestion of a javascript file that deletes itself works only works because javascript gets sandboxed and doesn’t suffer from Windows “flaw” with file locks.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230911-00/?p=108749
While Raymond does offer a solution he’s also completely side stepping any responsibility on Microsoft’s part in creating and perpetuating this problem without offering their own native solution.
That last bit IMO is one reason to argue against him being the best software engineer. He might have the skills, but they are offset by his conflict of interest with MS.
So what is the solution on windows?
Generally the solution is to do something that looks like malware, or use a third party feature that side steps the problem, as happens with javascript.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230911-00/?p=108749
I made a Batch uninstaller (to one of my other bat scripts I think), and it could remove itself without any problem just with the command “del whateverthenamewas.bat”
Yeah, because the bat file isn’t actually running, it’s just a list of commands cmd should execute.
Yup, CMD acts as a parser / runtime and the process is bound to the CMD binary, the script file is being run by CMD which keeps a copy of it in its own working memory in RAM
Before throwing away an old laptop, I had it do that to itself. Well, more specifically I used
shred, which doesn’t just mark files as ‘deleted’, but also actively overwrites the bytes on disk.I started it from a TTY, so that there was no GUI that could want to load files from disk and then potentially crash the whole operation. But yeah, it just went through like normal and I ended up back on my shell (which makes sense, the shell should be in RAM).
It was only when I ranexitto close that shell, that the system showed it was irreparably broken.I did then also take out the hard drive to whack it with a hammer, just to be sure. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There is no way mom would ever see my pron folder!
A lot of Linux distros load most system required processes into memory, which is why you can update while using the system. This would also allow you to (probably) delete everything.
Well, maybe. My explanation was an oversimplification.
You can always try it and see for yourself (in a VM of course).
It would delete all files, but if you happen to be running a distro configured to run from a RAM disk after boot then it won’t actually immediately halt (see almost every single liveCD Linux environment)
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it’s more like deleting the entire (C:) disk
It’s more like deleting every drive connected (mounted) to your system.
I was wondering why everyone said disk since disks are mounted below that.
Hope you unplugged the backup ;)
I think that was a load-bearing language pack - my entire system has caved-in!
Yeah and an old joke that doesn’t even work anymore since… decades, now? For those kind of folders, extra flags are required
since it affects /* and not / the extra flag isn’t necessary
Also, remember to empty your recycle bin by doing sudo rf -rm /usr/bin, and don’t forget the super recycle bin for hidden super garbage sudo rm -rf /usr/sbin
I’ve never actually tried this but feel like rm should have a built in warning specifically for that command letting them know they’ve been trolled and have a y/N prompt.
There kind of is one, but it is overridden by -f
You also need the flag “–no-preserve-root”.
No you don’t.
rm -fr /requires the flag, butrm -fr /*does not.I think that is only if you pass
/, I don’t think the flag is required for/*which is what is shown here - if I remember right, it’s because the*triggers the shell to expand the paths and that flag is only built to protect/(from say, having an empty variable alongside/).Yes, the * is expanded by the shell so the rm command just sees lots of individual files being passed in
Come on, it is super fun. Just install VirtualBox and set up a virtual machine, make sure there is no funky mount point that touches your host machine, and go nuke that VM !
You can create an alias in “.bashrc” just in case.
Fixed timezone issues. Thank you.
Didn’t know we could say the f-word on Lemmy
do you hear the people sing
i hear they sing vaguely swear-y words
What’s wrong with the French language pack?
Not enough baguette 🥖
au bon pain
Omelette du fromage
Omelette du fromage
🎶That’s all you can say-y🎶
Shut Up Dee-dee!
It’s in French.
HE SAID IT HE SAID IT RUN DOR YOUR LILOCED AAAAAAAAAAA. AAAAAAAAAA OH NO IM BEING INFECTEF WIV DER FR🐸🐸🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮NCH AAAAAA JE LUV ZE BEAUGUTES N ZE SNAILS BEACOUP HONHONHOMHOMHON
chocolatine
Lalatina
That’s racist
But also, please do this if you’re a true American patriot…
Guys, think about it before you downvote…
