this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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[–] HelloHotel 19 points 1 year ago
sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/mem
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] solidgrue 18 points 1 year ago

In the early days of ext2, it was possible to unlink("/")

I also saw init() go zombie once. Had to hard cycle the system and pray fsck didn't frag anything.

[–] HelloHotel 2 points 1 year ago

Dont forget to chown to root,set all special bits and a+x

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I hear if you privately run a Tor exit node, the FBI will make a free offsite data transfer

[–] Gryxx 11 points 1 year ago

Copy few debian system files into your arch directory.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bricking your BIOS comes to mind.

Physical damage, spills, etc.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Running rm -rf /sys/firmware/efi/efivars and having a shitty motherboard incapable of recovering from it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

With a hammer.

[–] juipeltje 7 points 1 year ago

Probably not the worst way but breaking the bootloader is definitely annoying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Installing KDE on my EeePC 900 didn't work out too well

[–] ninsix 1 points 1 year ago

simple: sudo apt remove apt

apt 🔫 apt