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    [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Android: screenshot dir? Use DIRECTORY_PICTURES env variable. Changing either? Lol, eat dirt pleb.

    [–] Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I did this once by accident, I deleted every file that had KDE as a dependency recursively. As well as every file that KDE listed as a dependency, recursively.

    Lesson learnt

    [–] azha@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    You can't kill windows with windows but you can kill Linux with Linux. Remember that.

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    [–] Voyajer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

    yes, do as I say!

    [–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

    Yes, do as I say!

    [–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Yup. And I've seen countless "articles" by trust-me-i-am-it-guru's whining that this is allowed

    [–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    That’s not true. Most distros now ask you to add —no-preserve-root

    [–] elvith@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Have you tried to add * to the path? No more nagging about that pesky missing safety parameter...

    rm -fr /*
    

    Bonus points of you do:

    rm -fr $ACCIDENTIALLY_UNDEFINED_VAR/*
    [–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

    Well, technically those aren’t the same command (but works well enough if you’re trying to render a system unusable).

    rm -rf /* would not remove /.secret. It rm -rf / would

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    [–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] azha@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

    And everything and your entire PC is under your control

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