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Bluesky post by user @magnusbeefcastle.bsky.social that reads,

I INSTALLED “LINUX”. BECAUSE WINDOWS IS FOR MEN WHO ASK PERMISSION TO EXIST. I CRUSHED THE INSTALLER WITH MY BARE HANDS AND NOW THE TERMINAL CALLS ME “SIR” BUT MY KERNEL KEEPS PANICKING. WHAT COMMAND MAKES THE COMPUTER SUBMIT COMPLETELY? I REFUSE TO GOOGLE

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~Yes, all of this user’s posts are like this.~

  • Foni@piefed.zipEnglish
    16·
    8 hours ago

    Pfft, only a true beta user uses BlueSky. Real men tame their own Mastodon server.

  • Sophienomenal@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    45·
    11 hours ago

    sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / should do the trick! It’ll let the OS know it’s nothing compared to you.

    Note: PLEASE DO NOT RUN THIS ON YOUR COMPUTER, IT IS A JOKE

    • bridgeburner@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      That note is unnecessary. I’d say if you are stupid enough to copy a command you find on the Internet and run it without knowing what it does, you deserve the consequences lol

    • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
      9·
      9 hours ago

      What’s the looping command? It’s a bunch of symbols.

      Edit: the fork bomb. TY commenters

        • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
          32·
          10 hours ago
          :() {      # define a function named ":".
 :         # run the function named ":"
   | :     # pass the output to the function named ":"
       &   # run this line in the background.
};         # end of definition
    :      # call the function ":".

          in case anyone was curious.

          • rbos@lemmy.caEnglish
            9·
            9 hours ago

            If you replace : with “loop” it becomes pretty clear. The only ‘weird’ thing is using punctuation as a function name.

            • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
              11·
              9 hours ago

              it’s not just looping; every instance starts two instances of itself waiting for input. it’s basically doing

              async def fork(): 
    f = fork()
    await fork(await f)

              …except python doesn’t start the second call until its arguments are evaluated, while shell does.

      • megopie@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        10 hours ago

        Recursively force delete the listed directory, so not just delete the directory, but go through anything below and delete that too, and the / is the root directory. So it deletes everything.

    • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Somehow, the exact second I’ve finished reading this meme i knew i would have find this comment below.

      To be clear that command would wipe out everything. So please DON’T play with the nuclear option in your terminal.