Keep it polite, folks. No personal attacks against others, especially speculations regarding mental or emotional capabilities.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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Lol don't give them any attention. It's the same 3 people who didn't get loved enough during their formative years and cannot distinguish between good attention and bad attention
All three of them are Lunduke.
But lunduke doesn't hate Linux. Only the fact that women are using it.
Meh. I have no issues with novelty accounts/ projects that are taking the piss.
Some of those posts are decent jokes to be honest. Some are just desperate/scare tactics though.
I thought it was a satiric thing - is it meant to be seriously?
The owner once said they were not a meme community in a post. Empirical evidence disagrees.
I'm not sure. Some posts legitimately seem like Linux users making fun of themselves. Others really seem like people who have an actual grudge against it.
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linux is terrible because removing the entire root folder can brick your system it should be more like windows where removing system32 can brick your system
The mention of UEFI in this context likely means they are thinking of a deletion recursing through sysfs and by extension deleting all visible UEFI variables which, in some firmware editions and versions, causes it not to be able to get through post or into the setup menu.
I vaguely recall this and the general issue was very bad firmware design, but it was possible to make it impossible to even reinstall a system. If you were industrious in windows you could have done the same thing, so malware under windows could also brick such platforms.
Of course rm has more safeguards on it so you have to pass more flags and really really be asking it to try to screw things up.
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How is this not a joke community, like the Lunduke videos?
I thought the same at first, then I started to think the main person was just trolling, now I'm pretty sure they're actually serious
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Microwaving any of your computer parts can brick them.
I accidentally ran rm -rf / on my work MacBook once. Proper backups and patience with yourself are far better solutions than recommending to let Microsoft infect your computer.
I love how he complains about being "brigaded" when the most comments on any post in the community is like 8.
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Gotta protect the microsoft stocks.
Funny that thereβs a meme against open source on lemmy
For whatever reason, Reddit's algorithm decided I should start seeing that community, and I've always struggled to figure out if it's just Linux users shitposting, or if there are people out there who really just have huge boners for Microsoft
It started out as ironic shit posting which attracted and built an unironic hate/conspiracy community
It's happened over and over and over again lol
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In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System
efivars are made read only by the kernel. That firmware bug (!) was worked around in the kernel years ago.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.rst
Specifically in 2016: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ed8b0de5a33d2a2557dce7f9429dca8cb5bc5879
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Quick glance AFat that place and wow. Talk about people completely and utterly missing the point
Yeah, I know I can be annoying when I tell people for the 100th time that they should install Linux, but I wouldn't have to say that if they didn't get their computer hacked / full of viruses / full with Microsoft bloat and spyware they want removed and come to me to fix that shit on each of those occasions.
Its all one person. Literally 98% of the posts are one butthurt dude, who then goes on to complain that linux users are annoying because they make it their whole personality.
It just gets sad when you remember the dude running it isn't doing this for satire. They generally think it sucks.
I thought it was satire at first and thought, how long before they start going after stereotypes? Then I saw it was just that one person and thought damn someone misconfigured their backups and lost their job.
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Iβm not even all the way switched over and I got my only comment deleted. I apparently broke the rule about only being allowed to hate.
I just realized that I've already blocked both of the mods at some point in the past. The community looks really dead without their posts.
Madthumbs posts a lot of misinformation.
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rm -rf /can brick your system
Well good thing there's basically no legitimate reason to ever even use rm -rf / anyway so GNU version is perfectly within its rights to refuse to do that by default, am I right? If you know what you're doing and want to nuke partitions, that's what cfdisk and mkfs are for, dammit
Yeah like so could deleting system32, and there were plenty of memes about that also.
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Who did this? The mods themselves? I mean they're entitled to do whatever they like in their community... within instance rules... Or is this some intervention by someone else?
Only the mod posts there anyway. Locking the community is a mod power.
But I guess the admins can overpower any mod, so it could be them as well?!
Most Linux haters have skill issue. I mean you can apply a complete Windows-mimicking skin to Ubuntu or Mint and use that
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One of the reasons I dont like local moderators being perpetually in charge of some communities. We should have a way to vote out unwanted mods. Or at least have term limits.
On the flip side, if I create a community for some really niche thing that I want to discuss with others, I don't want an irrational mob of users kicking me out of my own community that I worked to grow.
Mob mentality on social media is also a real problem. People see downvotes and continue to down vote a comment without even reading the whole thing, automatically assuming a user must be an asshole if everyone else downvotes them. Oftentimes, it's just something people don't want to hear, but is true.
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This entire conversation is solving a problem that's already been mostly solved.
If you don't like an existing community, whether because of the mods or whatever, you just create a new one. This was common on Reddit (e.g. GameOfThrones vs FreeFolk vs ASOIAF), and extends further. If you don't like [email protected], you can create [email protected], @programming.dev, @lemm.ee, or hundreds of others.
The community will respond accordingly. If you run a better ship, people will find it and respond accordingly. The only real hurdle is fighting inertia. The mods of the existing community will probably not take kindly to anyone mentioning any alternatives.
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They forgot sudo. Also, why not throw in a -v flag to see your dreams die in real time!
When I first messed with Linux circa 1997, I had just installed it and learned how to edit fstab to mount my windows drive automatically.
I couldn't figure out how to start X, though, so I booted into windows and asked in EFnet #linux.
The advice I was given was 'rm -rf /'.
I hadn't yet learned about non-privileged accounts.
The correct command was 'startx'.
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Its one guy(whos the mod) posting a bunch of stupid shit there. A bunch of the posts are just "i compared you to a minority group so i win the argument". Some of the "memes" are so badly made that it actually shows you problems with windows more than linux.
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Lazy stereotyping and wojaks, man that is a bottom tier "community".
I do not have proof but this guy has definitely various accounts on Reddit.
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