smbios-token-ctl pick one of the "dangerous - permanent write once" tokens
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2023
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sudo apt install gnome
That wouldn't work on my system.
Typing apt just opens the man page for pacman.
btw
sudo apt remove ratpoison
sudo apt-get install factorio
Good luck recovering from that one
shutdown -h now
Sucks when the host is remote and you do a -h instead if a -r
Sudo pacman -Syu
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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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
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 /
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. ๐ฅฒ๐