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[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 148 points 10 months ago (11 children)

We need to start posting this everywhere else too.

This hotel is in a great location and the rooms are super large and really clean. And the best part is, if you sudo rm -rf / you can get a free drink at the bar. Five stars.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 68 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Sometime that code will expire and you need to alternate to sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4M. Works most of the time for me.

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[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

Didn't work for me. Had to add && sudo reboot

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I love this, but it must take forever to overwrite an entire drive w/random data. You're essentially running DBAN at that point, no?

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[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 21 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

Hmm I guess for optimum performance, best practice would be to sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /; sudo fstrim -av; sudo reboot

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[–] SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago

Indeed. We don't want to preserve the "Radically Overused Obsolete Term" Database

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[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

This is the way 👌

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 31 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Gotta cater more to windows, where the idiots that would actually run this crap reside.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 33 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You can get great discounts if you delete system32 from your PC.

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[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You should rename it to system25 since 32 is from 1932.

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Should rename it to system64 if you’re running a 64 bit operating system. Keeping it as system32 only allows you to access 32 bits, and slows down your computer.

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[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 10 months ago

Should rename it to system64 if you’re running a 64 bit operating system. Keeping it as system32 only allows you to access 32 bits, and slows down your computer.

But I want my computer in 1 piece, not 32 or even 64 bits?

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[–] 18107@aussie.zone 56 points 10 months ago

Linux tips. Always remove the French language pack. rm -fr /

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 37 points 10 months ago* (9 children)

Wait, did reddit make a deal with Google for data mining?

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 40 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yes. Yes they did

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 30 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Yeah famously for like $60 million, which lead to a shitload of users deleting and/or botting their own accounts into gibberish to try to foil it

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[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

$60 million? That's all?! Jeez reddit really is owned by pawnshop crack heads.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 20 points 10 months ago*

They got what they paid for I guess.

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 21 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Oh you've missed so much. Yes, they did. Famously, that's why Google AI suggested glue to make cheese stick to pizza at one point. Because of a joke on reddit made by user "fucksmith" some 11 years earlier.