How about crud permission system (lemmy.ml)

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F-ing up myself is part of my routine. I always rm files that I don't mean to (obviously not always but it happens). So I think it would be nice to have separate 'delete' permission. With that I could protect my files from accidental 'rm's. What's your opinion

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Daily backups. Then you can have as much wild ambition as you like. Disk failures do not care for your permissions bits anyway.

Practically though, one thing I find that's a good habit to get into is to use rmdir on directories that you know should be empty instead of rm -rf. If you've made a mistake and try to delete the wrong folder, it'll error out.

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