You know I'm something of a sysadmin myself

Back when disk compressors (Stacker, DoubleSpace, and such) were a thing I was cleaning my 85MB hard drive to make space for some games, found some massive file I wasn't using, and promptly deleted it, which did indeed free a lot of space.

Way too much, in fact.

Turns out DriveSpace or whatever Stacker clone Microsoft had built into DOS somehow exposed the file in which it stored the compressed file system within the compressed system itself, allowing the user to delete it if they were stupid enough. So, when I deleted it, hilarity ensued.

In the end I think I was somehow able to recover the drive by booting from a floppy and using undelete or something like that, but it was a learning experience to say the least.

Damn, I miss those good old times.

How I feel after removing the system itself (it was all bloat) (I can now live a carefree life, free of computers)

The time I sudo chown -R conc:conc / because why bother with perms

first time trying Linux, installed Ubuntu. Over a few months I made a few mistakes but nothing major... untill I tried to delete VLC. Saw on some random forum that something called MKV was better. Googled how to delete a package and it turns out I deleted every dependency for VLC and not VLC itself. Totally nuked everything.

Is that what Norman's hair is supposed to look like in the comics?

I literally just tonight tried to move some virtual disks and mounts around on a VM and caused it to become unbootable.

Luckily I had all the important configs backed up with rclone so it was easier to just recreate the VM for me.

You feel like Willem DaRapper?

The ultimate debloating

500GB drive costs what? About $40?

I can delete system32 folder on archlinux and run sudo rm -rf /* on windows

Scooping up a root folder alias without noticing and dumping it in the trash icon.

How i feel after removing all the bloat from my system (i own a mac and deleted my downloads folder)