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What is the worst way to break your system without deleting data

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Jul 31, 2023 at 12:07amWeb
Show threadHello HotelJul 31, 2023
sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/mem
Show threadslippery_salmonsJul 31, 2023

Bricking your BIOS comes to mind.

Physical damage, spills, etc.

Show threadhameruJul 31, 2023
Running rm -rf /sys/firmware/efi/efivars and having a shitty motherboard incapable of recovering from it.
Show threadPons_AeliusJul 31, 2023
With a hammer.
Show threadjeremyJul 31, 2023
chmod -R 000 /
Show threadHello HotelJul 31, 2023
Dont forget to chown to root,set all special bits and a+x
Show threadSolidGrueJul 31, 2023

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.

Show threadcybericJul 31, 2023
I hear if you privately run a Tor exit node, the FBI will make a free offsite data transfer
Show threadGryxxJul 31, 2023
Copy few debian system files into your arch directory.
Show threadautoexecJul 31, 2023
Installing KDE on my EeePC 900 didn’t work out too well
Show threadjuipeltjeJul 31, 2023
Probably not the worst way but breaking the bootloader is definitely annoying.
Show threadninsixSep 12, 2023

simple: sudo apt remove apt

apt 🔫 apt