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    What is the worst way to break your system without deleting data (lemmy.world)
    submitted 2 years ago by HelloHotel@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago 
    sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/mem
    [–] jeremy@reddthat.com 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    chmod -R 000 /

    [–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

    In the early days of ext2, it was possible to unlink("/")

    I also saw init() go zombie once. Had to hard cycle the system and pray fsck didn't frag anything.

    [–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

    Dont forget to chown to root,set all special bits and a+x

    [–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago

    I hear if you privately run a Tor exit node, the FBI will make a free offsite data transfer

    [–] Gryxx@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

    Copy few debian system files into your arch directory.

    [–] slippery_salmons@lemmy.today 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Bricking your BIOS comes to mind.

    Physical damage, spills, etc.

    [–] hameru@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago

    Running rm -rf /sys/firmware/efi/efivars and having a shitty motherboard incapable of recovering from it.

    [–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

    With a hammer.

    [–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

    Probably not the worst way but breaking the bootloader is definitely annoying.

    [–] autoexec@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

    Installing KDE on my EeePC 900 didn't work out too well

    [–] ninsix@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

    simple: sudo apt remove apt

    apt πŸ”« apt