What is the worst way to break your system without deleting data

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sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/mem

jeremy@reddthat.com · 17 pts · 3y (2 replies)

chmod -R 000 /

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.

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

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

Bricking your BIOS comes to mind.

Physical damage, spills, etc.

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

Gryxx@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y

Copy few debian system files into your arch directory.

With a hammer.

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

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

simple: sudo apt remove apt

apt 🔫 apt