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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you! That’s funny and horrifying, as a complete newbie.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I installed Ubuntu on a spare computer a few weeks ago just to rm -rf / it. It was quite fun seeing the os slowly killing itself :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You should try dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda some time :P

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should I ask what it does before or after I use it? :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fills the hard drive with randomly-generated garbage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Specifically, most likely the OS hard drive, since that's usually sda