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[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 13 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I once deleted /dev/null Do not recommend. You’d be surprised how much of the system needs it.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I once deleted /dev/urandom. I didn't want uncertainty in my life.

Well, I was on for a surprise.

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

well, i guess your pc got into a pretty certain state of being, at least for that evening, so technically it worked:)

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

How? I could've sworn it wasn't even a "real" file. I thought the file system just had special rules for interacting with that name.