All fun and games until immutable systems are the future of Linux
Microsoft and Android have entered the chat
did you say immutable fun and games? We’re in!
Just wondering, but is there anything regarding packages or flatpaks (and variants of them) that would make immutable systems a requirement in order to use your applications, or would it still be possible to use a regular distro?
I’m sure there wouldn’t really be any complaints regarding 90% of linux users using immutable systems, as long as applications weren’t “locked in” to using those exclusively.
Bad time for a typo. Can’t*
Thank you corrected it
The fun part is that I’ve actually done the “delete the bootloader” on purpose. We did it for operating systems class and then manually did the disk partition calculations to directly write a new bootloader into place. Once you’ve done that a few times you start to really really understand how the superblock, bootloader, and partitions work.
System32 is not the bootloader. You can delete it all day long once you change permissions and unhide it.
You can do all sorts of dumb stuff to Windows, but you have to know what you are doing. I don’t think that is a feature to make fun of.
Yep, this was me a few weeks ago. I was running widows and linux dualboot on separate hard drives. I decided to reformat the windows drive since I was never using it. Apparently I had installed the bootloader to the drive which windows was on…
Yes. Also happened to me. Linux distros also do this (if you didn’t specify a separate boot partition), so next time you need to erase an OS, go into that partition, and remove the folder corresponding to the OS like “Windows” or “Ubuntu”.
I mean, there’s a reason they don’t let you delete system32 anymore
It’s like one of the earliest troubleshooting joke memes. It just so happens people actually did that, and not because they wanted to do that.
But like on earlier versions of Windows you could absolutely delete any folder on the drive. I think there’s even a story about an uninstaller that accidentally deleted the entire root of the drive because it wasn’t written correctly.
“Deltree C:\ . /Y” I think it was.
Sadly that still happens from time to time on both windows and Linux. Minecraft dungeons was the last I remember
The solution should be restricting such actions to root/admin, not preventing them entirely though.
When I first started using Arch Linux I swear I deleted my bootloader on accident like 4 times lol.
Windows: “I’m trying really hard to be your friend, please love me”
Linux: “Lol you wanna fuck around and find out? Go ahead dude IDGAF”
And in the process, I learned something about computers :D
Weird how that works.
FYI, Windows 3.11 let one fuck around in this way.
If you’re running Linux with the French language add-on installed, you can delete it:
rm -fr /
Immutable Distro says noooooo~
Don’t make a motherfucker…
DiskpartNow yall did it
And then there is that one Distro your “hacker” friend uses that turns your disk in to a industrial shredder…
This joke is explained with a story by Neal Stephenson in his “The Hole Hawg of Operating systems”. It’s a short, but great read: http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html
To quote:
“But I never blamed the Hole Hawg; I blamed myself. The Hole Hawg is dangerous because it does exactly what you tell it to. It is not bound by the physical limitations that are inherent in a cheap drill, and neither is it limited by safety interlocks that might be built into a homeowner’s product by a liability-conscious manufacturer. The danger lies not in the machine itself but in the user’s failure to envision the full consequences of the instructions he gives to it.”
Like a review of the OG Dodge Viper:
“Traction control? Air bags? Nope. You get ten cylinders, four wheels, and a steering wheel. Whatever happens next, it’s on you.”
Edit: Here it is
I knew what channel that was gonna be before I even clicked the link lol
“this car accelerates like it hates the past” is maybe one of my favorite quotes of all time now. Thanks for sharing this gem
His Demon review is even better:
“This car doesn’t accelerate, it escalates. Like a conversation born from the phrase ‘what’s wrong?’”
Poetry
ddstands for disk destroyer.It’s a true Unix tool: it does one thing really well and it’s up to the user to not fuck it up. Always double check the if= and of= before you hit enter on a dd! That’s how power works and I’d rather have power over my computer than have it be the other way around.
Yes, I’ve fucked up a few dd commands over the years. Lessons learned.
Rm /bin/rm
