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[–] BurnedDonut@ani.social 141 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There is no such thing as immutable or uncorruptable OS. My late father would always find a way to fuck up the laptop I setup for him. He would even come back with errors that I've seen for the first time and our conversation would go like this:

Me: How did this happen? My Father: how should know? It was like this when I turned it on. Me: what did you do before you turned it off last time? My Father: I was on Facebook, played some backgammon and watched some YouTube. Me: ...

I miss him and I would gladly give everything to have him bother me with his laptop problems one more time. I hope that he is getting some good support where ever he is.

[–] oconnordaniel@infosec.pub 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I believe the saying goes.

If you make something idiot proof, the universe will produce a more advanced idiot.

(Not to belittle your late father’s intellect)

[–] BurnedDonut@ani.social 6 points 2 months ago

No offence taken. He was not a tech savvy person.

[–] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He would even come back with errors that I’ve seen for the first time

My father does this as well. And it's always the computer because it's old and it plays tricks on him. He's never done anything wrong!

[–] BurnedDonut@ani.social 5 points 2 months ago

He never blamed the computer directly because he knew I bought a new laptop for him. But he would say it happened on it's own so...

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Me when I accidentally type in sudo rm -rf /: how the fuck did I accidentally type that in?

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

trying to remove the French language pack is what I've heard.

[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Macropolis@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I didn't think the order of the flags mattered

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the order does not matter. But for it to be french, shouldnt it be fr?

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 3 points 2 months ago

It means "for real"

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

you want to type in an absolute path, but accidentally press enter after / maybe?

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you forgot --no-preserve-root or it won't do anything.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 2 months ago

yeah that's why the term "atomic" is better

[–] MicrondeMMMMMMM@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Immutable doesn't mean unbreakable though.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago

tbf, thats not true immutability in the strictest sense of the word

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For true immutability, burn something like tails on a read-only CD.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

CD? You mean the shiny coaster?

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure this is the command my dad used to test disaster recovery systems.

you know. to simulate the entire cluster going poof. He spoke of having to get somebody else to actually send it, because it just felt that wrong.

(pretty sure he was being sarcastic. Pretty sure when he was asked to test their disaster recovery for his org... his first thought was probably "i've never nuked an entire network before")

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What distro?

On Fedora Atomic Desktops:

If you deleted /etc then you can copy it from /usr/etc

Your fstab, shadow, crypttab, gpasswd and quite some other files are gone though, which is problematic.

https://gitlab.com/fedora/ostree/sig/-/issues/28

[–] RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

Me when I try vanilla os 2: