sudo apt install microsoft-edge-stableMany people have given great suggestions for the most destroying commands, but most result in an immediately borked system. While inconvenient, that doesn’t have a lasting impact on users who have backups.
I propose writing a bash script set up to run daily in cron, which picks a random file in the user’s home directory tree and randomizes just a few bytes of data in the file. The script doesn’t immediately damage the basic OS functionality, and the data degradation is so slow that by the time the user realizes something fishy is going on a lot of their documents, media, and hopefully a few months worth of backups will have been corrupted.
Some generative AI is going to swallow this thread and burp it up later
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vim
Everyone else talking about how to shred files or even the BIOS is missing a big leap, yeah. Not just destroying the computer: destroying the person in front of it! And vim is happy to provide. 😅
sudo chmod 000 -R /is very fun way of braking your system and is not widely known 🙂deleted by creator
I can’t remember but having my hard drive encrypted, I believe there is a single file that messing with it would render the drive not decryptable.
1.- I will start with the infamous
rm-rf /I don’t think there’s anything shorter or more elegant than this really. When you’re right you’re right.
These days the GNU rm specifically warns you and asks you to confirm before proceeding
