• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    12 hours ago

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

    • kewjo@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      10 hours ago

      make sure to add --no-preserved-root to make sure to update all the English libraries too so you can make sure only freedom fries are respected.

    • SinkingLotus@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      10 hours ago

      I mean… You’re not wrong. If there’s a French language pack on the system, it will remove it.

      Tap for spoiler

      Along with everything else.

    • LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      11 hours ago

      alias trash-put from trash-cli in both sudo and user.

      myrm() {
        trash-put "$@"
      }
      alias rm="myrm"
      

      This has saved my ass so many times. Especially when typing “rm * .png” instead of “rm *.png”

      Can restore the files using the cli or from system recycling bin.

      The alias to rm is probably not best. So getting use to using another name is probably best. But I’m never had a problem with it.

      • pressanykeynow@lemmy.world
        cake
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        10 hours ago

        Or just use snapshots. If you are into aliases make an alias for rm to make a snapshot before deleting something.

      • _____@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        10 hours ago

        I’ve never ran into any issues from using rm but I like this idea and will be using it as I only see positives

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    12 hours ago

    accidentally deleted every dependency VLC requires instead of deleting VLC. Absolutely recked EVERYTHING on my PC.

    I deserve it for trying to remove the best video player 😔

  • qyron@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    13 hours ago

    I once tried to delete something I was not supposed to and the system was quite adamant on advising against it. The system was to be reinstalled so I was just trying things.

    It’s been a while but I recall the system giving me a first warning that my command woud delete X, Y and Z, which could render the system inoperable.

    Then it questioned me if I was sure I wanted to proceed with the operation.

    The final warning was a sum of the potential damage I would do to the system and that it would be irreversible, without a full system install.

    So, three strikes.

  • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    13 hours ago

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

    • azha@lemm.eeOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      13 hours ago

      And everything and your entire PC is under your control

  • Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    13 hours ago

    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.eeOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      13 hours ago

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

  • hddsx@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    14 hours ago

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

    • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      13 hours ago

      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/*
      
  • yesman@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    14 hours ago

    As a user, I hate when an OS gets in my way. Or insists that there is one right way to do something.

    As the tech support guy in my family, I’m grateful that windows denies permission, has big guard rails, and forces you to do updates.

    • LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      11 hours ago

      Nah. Fuck forced updates. Only time I’m forced to use windows is for work.

      I have to play the “low battery” game when it starts notifying me during work. Unplugging and repowering the laptop right below 10% so it won’t restart and disconnect my VM and SSH sessions I’m using for work.

      I don’t care what anyone says. Updates that can’t have a forever “give me 1 more hour” indefinitely are just going to destroy work.

      Suddenly restarting in the middle of someone working is just awful design. I don’t care how many “warnings” there are.

      I’m connected to a remote session and doing work. If you restart my computer I could lose my work. The OS is not some self contained thing you can always save the state in.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      14 hours ago

      Bruh. For how many years did Windows make every luddite, child, and grandparent default Administrator with full, unprompted access to install viruses, run scripts, and delete system files?

    • tazeycrazy@feddit.uk
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      14 hours ago

      I suppose immutable systems are ment to stop the end user from bugging out the system but even regular Linux distrios need to assume that there users are incompetent cus I am.

    • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      13 hours ago

      I might be wrong, but I think that actually wouldn’t do anything, because grub is installed by the tooling from the package, not the package itself?

    • stuner@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      13 hours ago
      E: Removing essential system-critical packages is not permitted. This might break the system.
      

      You can still do it if you really want, but even Linux rightly has some protections against breaking your system.

      • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        13 hours ago

        I do want to clarify: it’s not Linux itself, but specific distributions (or rather their package managers). As far as I know, Arch’s pacman would do nothing to stop me 🥰

        • addie@feddit.uk
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          12 hours ago

          Yeah, swapped out grub for systemd-init on a running Arch system not too long ago. Arch is cool with it. Be sure not to make any really bad typos while you’ve not got a boot manager, of course.