You are going to fuck this up. Don’t come crawling back to me when you lose all your data since the dawn of time and you completely brick this goddamn computer. This is your one and only warning.

    • Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      104·
      17 days ago

      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.

      • mormund@feddit.org
        40·
        17 days ago

        Maybe its also a ship of theseus type situation. If you have to copy /etc/ from somewhere else, is it still the same installation?

        • styanax@lemmy.world
          13·
          17 days ago

          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…

      • bigboitricky@lemmy.world
        12·
        17 days ago

        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

      • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        16 days ago

        I feel like there is probably some software stuff you could do to permanently fuck the hardware, such as running a resistor at full voltage for a sustained period of time when its only meant to see bursts. Still not truly beyond repair, but you could make it very difficult.

      • redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        6·
        16 days ago

        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.

      • RyeBread@feddit.org
        4·
        16 days ago

        Laughs in NixOS (while still spending the next few days going insane trying to figure out what isn’t in config qq)

      • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.org
        1·
        16 days ago

        Yes, but many modern mainboards do feature two UEFI copies and can switch to the backup on the fly - and most let you restore a bricked UEFI from a USB drive. Not sure if this can help here or even work on this situation, but it might be worth a try.

  • Rozaŭtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    74·
    17 days ago

    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.

  • MissingGhost@lemmy.ml
    34·
    16 days ago

    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.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      16 days ago

      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.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    16 days ago

    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.

  • chellomere@lemmy.world
    13·
    16 days ago

    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.

    • Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      16 days ago

      You aren’t wrong, but really what are the odds the version of zenmap I got from official repos is going to be an issue? I like pretty pictures to go with my networking tools, it’s not like I leave them open after

      • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
        1·
        16 days ago

        It’s not that the program you’re running is malicious, but that it has an exploitable flaw. Because it’s a GUI app, a lot of things can touch it, which might be something malicious or something with another exploitable flaw.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      16 days ago

      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.