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Linux can and has destroyed hardware (lemmy.world)
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In A UEFI World, "rm -rf /" Can Brick Your System

This New Linux Kernel Update Can Damage Your Laptop Display

There was also a particular optical drive that would brick if installing from a particular I believe Red Hat Linux installation cd, though I can't find a source for this (personal experience with 2 drives - warning was in manual). -This was ~20 years ago.

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[-] Aiastarei@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

I mean, right in one of those articles it says that Windows also can destroy your UEFI

[-] madthumbs@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

"Matthew says with about 20 lines of code on Windows, you can cause the same havoc. He points out that mounting EFI variables as read-only could break some user-space applications and isn't the solution to the problem."

[-] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As a public service announcement, recursively removing all of your files from / is no longer recommended.

When was it ever recommended?
There's absolutely no reason to do this, ever.

[-] Rin@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

As a public service announcement, recursively removing all of your files from / is no longer recommended.

When was it ever recommended?
There's absolutely no reason to do this, ever.

To remove the French language from your system ofc (rm -fr /)

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