Linux will do what you tell it. :)
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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Thats nothing, on 2 separate occasions i mistyped the parameters for dd and erased my entire hard drive lol.
It's drive destroyer for a reason.
I think it could use more guard rails. Like if you are flashing a 4gb image to a 256 gb partition. a confirmation dialog?
I am still triple checking when I see /dev/sda as a target drive in such utilities. I use NVMe, so nowadays that's probably a flash drive for me, but it still gives me adrenaline when I notice it.
I usually start typing with # before the command, so that even if i accidently hit enter, it won't run. After verifying the command enough times, i removes the # and run the command(take command from history if i hit enter)
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Plot twist: this was a work computer.
This is why I use an atomic distro
Much harder to break important things, but little things all come pre-broken.
Rest in peace my granny,she got hit by a bazooka
(got no clue why, but really FEELS like an appropirate reaction to have, I salute to you and your pain sir!)
TIL rm -v is a thing
For when you want to livestream your failures directly to the terminal
Well at least you got to watch
what is that? i3? sway?
Make an alias in .bashrc (or equivalent) so that rm always have the -i flag to prompt for βyou really wanna do it !?β.
You use btrfs, right? Right???
Tried the terminal emulator for the first time today, but I kinda can not get used to the fact, that I cannot move it around :(
I chowned root recursively once to root:root caught it half way when errors started popping up about stuff that was denied. Was trying to do ./ but missed the .
Ah, this is why I set up snapper on my btrfs system
Ah! thx for reminding me to setup timeshift again on my new system :)
Why is the cursor still on the same line as the prompt?
I think he pressed up after having run that command to see what he wrote wrong.
Unlikely, as the v flag would leave a list of all deleted files before the active prompt.
Edit: I get it now. The ls was executed after deletion
shh enjoy the funny /s