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.
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.
It’s right tho…
Even sudo says that: “With great power comes great responsibility.”
With great power comes great electricity bill.
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.
https://tenor.com/en-CA/view/computer-old-man-my-computer-delete-my-computer-delete-gif-12348422
You can still delete system files on Windows but you need double secret admin rights.
I never ever had to run my file manager as root.
Same here, but I can understand why someone might want to. For many people, even those that are comfortable on the command line, a GUI is a more comfortable experience. And, I have (rarely) needed to do some filesystem management as not my primary user account.
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.
I then stopped using dolphin
Let me stop you right there altogether!
I’m getting used to it; I customised it to my liking and it even has a terminal built in. what do you recommend instead?
also, what do you recommend that works like VSCode for writing shit into that I never save and leave open forever, and has a search functionality on all open files that can work on any programming language I want (through compiler/interpreter and colour scheme plugins)?
You can use vscode on linux
I know I can, but I want to learn about alternatives and grow.
Vscodium.
Or one of the many variants of ol’ Sublimetext and Atom (Sublime is paid for, Atom has been abandoned, but there are successors)
I’ll check out some atom successors, thanks! Any specific ones you like?
Uhh does Codium not work for you? It’s not Vim but it’s something
I haven’t tried, but I want to learn about alternatives and grow. I don’t want vscode with the scummy bits removed, I want to see something that’s better and try something new that’s similar to something that has solved the problems I stated.
Let me stop you right there altogether!
Let me stop you right there!
Linus Sebastian will ignore all text and type yes do as I say
I knew I shouldn’t rely on that guy for sex tips.
Windows user: “Whatever”, and keeps clicking around.
They probably don’t even read what the message has to say. When I’ve helped some family members with their computer I’ve seen something important pop up and they just closed it immediately. I asked what did that message say and they said “I don’t know I just closed it.” :/
With modern windows error messages being absolutely useless “something went wrong :/” tier messages I can’t even blame them that much anymore.
That’s usage for a non tech literate user
They will force every block out of the way of what they want to do, and if it stops working, they call someone.
Mac and Linux users do this too. If they didn’t then systems administration wouldn’t be a career path.
As a systems administrator, I’ll not worry about users taking over my job as long as Citrix exists.
I pray for the day Shitrix stops existing
With this
character’sfile’s death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore asaved gamebackup to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.Would jury-rigging Wraithguard be booting a live USB and trying to fix the system yourself?
The emotional damage on first use would make sense in that context.
“beyond repair” my ass, this is Linux
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.
Maybe its also a ship of theseus type situation. If you have to copy /etc/ from somewhere else, is it still the same installation?
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…
exactly lol.
“wtf is a ‘boot/efi’ directory, seems stupid, bye bye!”
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
rm -rf /in UEFI system, no more return.THANK GOD we have this failsafe now:
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '/' rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafeLinus Sebastian: “Why do I hear boss music?”
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.testdiskentered the chat. (Kind of a challenge though but still)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.
In Ubuntu you used to be able to delete the UEFI firmware from the motherboard.
It’s true! Dolphin breaks constantly, don’t give it a gun!
Dolphin breaks constantly, don’t give it a gun!
🤔
https://youtu.be/HvnqU-1uDUU?t=16
Are you afraid of this being the outcome?
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.
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
Seems about three times wordier than necessary but ok
That’s the dolph.
It’s the d
Iirc before dolphin would just refuse to run as root, I guess this is an improvement
Yep, they used to. SUSE actually shipped a second version (or maybe just a shortcut with some startup-option) of Dolphin to provide “Dolphin as Root”. I think this was inspired by said approach
Mario Sunshine stakes got higher
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.
You’re not my supervisor.
anyone else find this just so patronizing and smug?
no because I’ve worked office IT and people that have jobs I can see are really complicated and easily use software with a serious learning curve are still that fucking dumb.
