apt install "*" --force-yes
I'm sure it's fine...
@catsalad I never thought about what the opposite of rm -rf / was, but this is it.
@mttaggart @catsalad Basically me around '95 discovering linux and installing all the things. Gnome? :check: KDE? also :check: thing<no idea what this does> also :check: let's see what it does...
@nf3xn @catsalad I was definitely thinking about multiple window managers.
@mttaggart @catsalad That one (rm -rf / ) is obvious. What is worse is me thinking "oh, I'll get rid of the hidden files there, they are not needed, so I'll just do
rm -rf .*
I did not think about it, because clearly .. matches .*
There are some mistakes you only make once.
catwheezie (@catwheezie) on X

It's him, it's Mr Oppenheimer.

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@catsalad This was th exact image I was looking for as a bunch of drives start spinning up over maximum speed and indicators jump over red.
@catsalad
โ€œMy work here is done.โ€
@catsalad Now that looks like a seriously fiery toot...lol
@catsalad @fortyseven Cool cats don't look at explosions.
@corbden @catsalad @fortyseven
Kitten got away, grew up and then finally blew up those domokun
https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/54511079/domokun-chasing-kitty
domokun chasing kitty Blank Template - Imgflip

Blank domokun chasing kitty template

@bornach @catsalad @fortyseven The original version of that meme was just the kitten, and said, "Every time you masturbate, God kills a kitten." I've always thought they were God's hired hit-domo.
@catsalad this sounds like good advice, never need to apt install again ๐Ÿ‘
@catsalad is this taken from my employerโ€™s lightweight Docker images?
@bea Never miss a lib* again!
@catsalad this is basically the same as installed a small text only utility and forgetting โ€œ--no-install-recommendsโ€
@bea 7 hours in and my goodie grab is still installing on my test machine... I must of picked a catch all package for fonts, because I now have them all for every language. ๐Ÿ˜ง
@catsalad you never know when you might pick up Cyrillic!

@catsalad ok... ok... wait... hold on.. WHAโ€”

AAAAAAAAAAAA

@catsalad inspired by 'npm install everything'?
@catsalad After this operation, 1.574 tB of additional disk space will used.
@catsalad no packages found: all apps are installed and managed through the snap store now.
@catsalad I hadn't taken you for a villain.
@catsalad Is this what they meant by "owning all the libs"?
@catsalad I don't think that's what they mean by "own the libs".
@catsalad reminds me of npm install everything: everything was an NPM package which depended on all other NPM packages and broke the entire NPM registry and caused huge drama lol
How One Command Broke NPM

YouTube
@lexi @catsalad they fixed this by making it the default when you `npm install` anything.

@catsalad npm install everything

(this broke stuff, https://uncenter.dev/posts/npm-install-everything/)

The package that broke npm (accidentally) - uncenter.dev

How we made a package that depends on every single npm package... and completely broke npm in the process.

Documentation by directory, after removing the quotes. ๐Ÿ˜‰

(It's probably cleaner and easier to manage than a block of lines in a shell script.)

@catsalad

@catsalad It won't actually do this because of conflicts.

I'm not 100% sure this syntax is right, but I tried:

apt install --force-yes `apt-cache search . | awk '{print "+"$1}'`

... and it's been sitting and thinking about it for quite a long time now.

@catsalad
The forbidden command
@catsalad ๐Ÿ˜‚ I actually said โ€œno!โ€ out loud !
@catsalad can't fall into dependency hell if you have every dependency
@catsalad I do this first for a clean install: rm -rf /
@catsalad
`W: --force-yes is deprecated, use one of the options starting with --allow instead.`
@catsalad usually my first step in a clean install lol
@catsalad sadly this may not work: some packages are in Conflict with others ๐Ÿ˜ž
I would have loved if it worked ๐ŸŒŠ๐ŸŒŠ๐ŸŒŠ

@catsalad

I built a collection of 40 or so boxes that did this with yum as a stress tester for a VM environment. Watching a 1/4 million dollar storage appliance hard crash itself is impressive.

@johntimaeus There's a thin line between advanced stress testing and just taking the device out back and shooting it. ๐Ÿคฃ

@catsalad

I was aiming to cross that line. I did, showed the results to the vendor, and got them to change their firmware so the box wasn't reserving 80% of cache for writes.

@catsalad it is time for the maximalist linux install
@catsalad nix-env -iA nixpkgs

@catsalad

A new datacenter. The electricians final checks on the substation, they ask if there is a way to load test the grid connection and peaking generators. Why yes, we can do that...

@catsalad
No worries: if anything goes wrong you can always revert using "dpkg --purge --force-all *"... Right? ๐Ÿค”
@catsalad purr evil ๐Ÿ˜บ
@catsalad
The maximalistic debianlike!
@catsalad this is what happens when you tell syncopathic LLMs: "I'm so tired of error messages telling me I don't have the dep. Just give me the command to fix it!"