"beyond repair" my ass, this is Linux
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2025
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I guess they meant "beyond repair if you don't have access to a live boot USB or the means to create one". Gotta remember who this warning is meant for. For those kind of users, "beyond repair" might technically be true.
Maybe its also a ship of theseus type situation. If you have to copy /etc/ from somewhere else, is it still the same installation?
In modern Linux and assuming you did no pre-filtering or post-processing, no. machine-id systemd is a thing, fstabs commonly use device UUIDs now snd so forth with various subsystems. A laptop GRUB config commonly has the resume UUID set (sleep/hibernation stuff), a server typically has network configs tied to the hardware IDs, and on and on...
rolls up sleeves Not if I gave anything to say about it! Watch a master at work missing boot folder missing rescue disk missing OS backups
exactly lol.
"wtf is a 'boot/efi' directory, seems stupid, bye bye!"
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rm -rf / in UEFI system, no more return.
THANK GOD we have this failsafe now:
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '/'
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
Linus Sebastian: "Why do I hear boss music?"
Efi spec states it must be safe to delete all variables. It's only motherboards not adhering to the spec that are affected, effectively faulty hardware.
If you do this on a mb from that era chances are nothing will happen, and if something does happen chances are it is recoverable. You'd have to have some truly bad luck on your choice of mb to have it be permanently bricked by that.
testdisk entered the chat. (Kind of a challenge though but still)
Laughs in NixOS (while still spending the next few days going insane trying to figure out what isn't in config qq)
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In Ubuntu you used to be able to delete the UEFI firmware from the motherboard.
With this ~~character's~~ file's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a ~~saved game~~ backup to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.
Would jury-rigging Wraithguard be booting a live USB and trying to fix the system yourself?
The emotional damage on first use would make sense in that context.
Linus Sebastian will ignore all text and type yes do as I say
I knew I shouldn't rely on that guy for sex tips.
Windows user: "Whatever", and keeps clicking around.
They probably donβt even read what the message has to say. When Iβve helped some family members with their computer Iβve seen something important pop up and they just closed it immediately. I asked what did that message say and they said βI donβt know I just closed it.β :/
With modern windows error messages being absolutely useless "something went wrong :/" tier messages I can't even blame them that much anymore.
That's usage for a non tech literate user
They will force every block out of the way of what they want to do, and if it stops working, they call someone.
Mac and Linux users do this too. If they didn't then systems administration wouldn't be a career path.
As a systems administrator, I'll not worry about users taking over my job as long as Citrix exists.
I pray for the day Shitrix stops existing
It's right tho...
Even sudo says that: "With great power comes great responsibility."
With great power comes great electricity bill.
pssh, it also says "this incident will be reported" when I get my password wrong.
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How times have changed. If you have used Windows 98, you were always the administrator. Your five years old brother could actually go around deleting random system files.
https://tenor.com/en-CA/view/computer-old-man-my-computer-delete-my-computer-delete-gif-12348422
You can still delete system files on Windows but you need double secret admin rights.
I never ever had to run my file manager as root.
Same here, but I can understand why someone might want to. For many people, even those that are comfortable on the command line, a GUI is a more comfortable experience. And, I have (rarely) needed to do some filesystem management as not my primary user account.
It's nice to have a GUI for those things sometimes rather than a command line for everything. If you're doing things right, your daily login shouldn't have access to modify system settings or read sensitive logs. But troubleshooting requires that often and ls, vim, cat, tail, etc., can become cumbersome compared to a GUI file manager and proper GUI text editor like Kate or Gedit.
I installed something that I got very disappointed, and wanted to get rid of it
the script itself tried to rm something in a directory but failed, sudo dolphin didn't work, so I found out how to delete stuff from... I think /bin or /usr/local/bin ?
That needed me to run as admin/root so I did it. I deleted 1 file, the leftover artifact of the thing I didn't want installed. I then stopped using dolphin as admin so that I wouldn't break everything forever.
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Iirc before dolphin would just refuse to run as root, I guess this is an improvement
Yep, they used to. SUSE actually shipped a second version (or maybe just a shortcut with some startup-option) of Dolphin to provide "Dolphin as Root". I think this was inspired by said approach
this is why I moved everyone in my family to atomic fedora. This is almost entirely not a thinng there. To be fair while all of them regularly fucked up windows, only my mom ever fucked up regular linux distros.
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You're not my supervisor.
Mario Sunshine stakes got higher
I had to come back to this message several times over the course of the day to finally understand that you mean seeing this message in the emulator dolphin while playing Mario Sunshine ups the stake of the game.
IMO an application written with a graphical toolkit and connected to a graphical server like X or Wayland shouldn't be run as root, as these millions of lines of code that the program may use through libraries is a very large potential attack vector.
This should be done through the terminal if you value security.
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If I want to look at files in a directory I use ls and thats it
they should just say here be dragons
This is KDE, there are always dragons
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