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    22 hours ago

    The /bin dir on any Linux install is the recycle bin. Save space by regularly deleting its contents

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        8 hours ago

        I legitimately did this unprompted the first time I installed Linux on a computer when I was in my late teens.

        I fully believed that /bin/ was actually just a bin. I didn’t know it stood for binary or whatever