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[โ€“] leds@feddit.dk 8 points 10 months ago

smbios-token-ctl pick one of the "dangerous - permanent write once" tokens

[โ€“] Turbula@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] chaogomu@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That wouldn't work on my system.

Typing apt just opens the man page for pacman.

[โ€“] jbaber@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago

sudo apt remove ratpoison

[โ€“] netburnr@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

shutdown -h now

Sucks when the host is remote and you do a -h instead if a -r

[โ€“] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
alias cp="rm -rf"

bonus points for putting it into the shells RC file.

Not as destructive as deleting root, but a lot more sneakier

[โ€“] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdx will overwrite every single byte of /dev/sdx with random data. Replace /dev/sdx with the drive you want to wipe. Optionally, specify a larger block size to speed it up more.

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[โ€“] Lime66@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Sudo pacman -Syu

[โ€“] intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

sudo apt-get install factorio

Good luck recovering from that one

[โ€“] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago

hdparm --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing --sanitize-crypto-scramble /dev/sda

Modern disks have encryption enabled in disk level. This will change the encryption key on the disk, meaning that in seconds all data in the disk is in unrecoverable state.

This is way better than writing the whole disk 0's or rm -fr /

[โ€“] mokazemi@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

I was a newbie user, telling a friend of mine about rm -rf /*. I typed it in a hit Enter, telling him it doesn't harm since I didn't enter sudo. But I'd forgotten that I have still permission to delete my home directory. ๐Ÿฅฒ๐Ÿ˜‚

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