Follow-up from “Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?”.
Here’s mine - the laptop from which I’m typing right now has a broken touchpad that keeps jumping and clicking randomly, and does not work. Well, I can’t afford to fix it, but at the moment, I was so pissed off I punched the touchpad really hard, and the machine panicked with all the lights blinking. A few more revival abuses, and the machine was back to life, but since I was running a nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade in the background, I blew off my boot partition. I think I just broke the unbreakable distro.
I once deinstalled dpkg on Debian or Ubuntu.
Back then I did not know what that dependency was. So apt-get uninstall dpkg felt okish for me.
The funny thing is, apt forces you to type “yes I know what I am doing!”, but even that did not kill my flow here. I misspelled the sentence twice, than copied it and pressed enter…
After I tried to compile dpkg again but decided relatively soon it’s time for the next distro hop.
I DON’T FUCKING KNOW 😭
This was dumb on so many levels.
I downloaded an iso and was supposed to dd it to my USB drive. You can see where this is leading, but it’s worse than you think.
I overwrote the hdd. While I was on an airplane. Of a macbook air that I had no idea how to restore to a functioning state. And this was my workplace laptop.
Like I said, dumb on many levels…
Edit: while the question is about breaking ones Linux installation, one could argue that macOS share the same lineage as Linux and share many similarities.
Running obfuscated commands from forums on the internet.
It wasn’t on Linux on but on a Vax Unix machine in the early 90s. We were an IBM shop but the accounts department got a Vax to run their new software. Obviously we were expected to look after this little box with no training. Things went quite well until it started to to run out of space. I found a huge file called vmuniz iirc and couldn’t see anything using using it. The file was deleted and the job was done. Until we rebooted.
