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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • Unplug the computer
  • Shut the house electric safety switch down
  • Cut the electricity pole nearest to the house
  • Bomb the nearest electricity distribution post
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

nuke it from orbit. it's the only way to be sure.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
  • Wait for a sufficiently powerful coronal mass ejection to collapse the global electric grid
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

"this is my life now"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does colon-capital-Q-exclamation mark even work? I'm pretty sure it's only lower case q.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

its supposed to be lowercase,
but imgflip put the entire text in uppercase.

[–] RustySharp 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly, the joke landed anyway. I've done numerous uppercase-Q trying to quit, because I didn't let go of Shift fast enough after typing the colon...

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

Was going to say this, myself.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

cat /dev/zero > "/proc/$(pidof vim)/mem" is my favorite dumb way. Clear its memory, wait for the segfault.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...you can write to program memory? Idk how exactly but that feels like a security risk.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's your process, why shouldn't you be able to write to it? Vi is certainly doing it...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You do need to be root to do it to arbitrary processes.

[–] vrkr 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

dumb way.

Get fancy, add progress bar: pv < /dev/zero > "/proc/$(pidof vim)/mem"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Amateur. Just unplug the power cable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Open vim.

Accept vim is the OS now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

One panel below: shut down the computer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

holy crap,
that's exactly what i wanted the last command to do.

i just didn't know you can target jobs,
and settled with quitting the shell instead

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

yeah it's my favorite way to exit Vim. I post it every time I get a chance lol https://gekinzuku.com/comment/202790

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

ctrl-S instinctively from windows then panic when the terminal pauses and isnt accepting input so you restart the computer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Fuck, are you me?

[–] mormegil 4 points 1 year ago

There's a whole repo of possible methods: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim

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

Alt+PrtScn o

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=s5lj9YdKMz0

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] IHateRedditAndSpez 5 points 1 year ago

The comment was edited after the bot responded

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

M-! pkill -9 vim

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

ZZ will save file though, the others won't. You meant ZQ.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/4889ED2-ufw

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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

try...

:x

it will save your changes and exit vim If there are no changes to the then it just exits vim.

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

til shift-z shift-z. am I stupid

[–] Just_Dominic 1 points 1 year ago
  1. Ctrl + T + alt
  2. sudo reboot
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does unplugging the machine not work?

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

I call my local energy provider and simply cancel my contract with immediate effect.

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