• NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social
    50·
    11 months ago

    Windows: “I’m trying really hard to be your friend, please love me”

    Linux: “Lol you wanna fuck around and find out? Go ahead dude IDGAF”

  • azimir@lemmy.ml
    39·
    11 months ago

    The fun part is that I’ve actually done the “delete the bootloader” on purpose. We did it for operating systems class and then manually did the disk partition calculations to directly write a new bootloader into place. Once you’ve done that a few times you start to really really understand how the superblock, bootloader, and partitions work.

  • June@lemm.ee
    325·
    11 months ago

    One thing I miss from Reddit is that all this software/hardware supremacy bullshit died out years ago.

    I’m so fucking sick of these memes

    • Kiosade@lemmy.ca
      9·
      11 months ago

      I don’t know why, but there’s a LOT of Linux users on here. Feels like it’s half tech nerds/programmer types.

    • starman@programming.devEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      As GNU/Linux user, I don’t like this meme too. I’ve seen this so many times that it’s not funny anymore. And if it was, it should be posted to c/linuxmemes, not here.

      • June@lemm.ee
        4·
        11 months ago

        I have no beef with folks circle jerking in their own space, go for it. But having it constantly hammered in my feed is just annoying and toxic. May as well get in arguments about whose dad could beat up whose.

  • azimir@lemmy.ml
    23·
    11 months ago

    This joke is explained with a story by Neal Stephenson in his “The Hole Hawg of Operating systems”. It’s a short, but great read: http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html

    To quote:

    “But I never blamed the Hole Hawg; I blamed myself. The Hole Hawg is dangerous because it does exactly what you tell it to. It is not bound by the physical limitations that are inherent in a cheap drill, and neither is it limited by safety interlocks that might be built into a homeowner’s product by a liability-conscious manufacturer. The danger lies not in the machine itself but in the user’s failure to envision the full consequences of the instructions he gives to it.”

    • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      Like a review of the OG Dodge Viper:

      “Traction control? Air bags? Nope. You get ten cylinders, four wheels, and a steering wheel. Whatever happens next, it’s on you.”

      Edit: Here it is

  • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.mlEnglish
    222·
    11 months ago

    Story time: In 1994 my friends dad still had a PC running DOS/Windows 3.1

    My friend and I had been downloading pron clips from a local BBS that were all in a *.dl file format.

    My friend got anxious his father would find the porn and he would get in trouble, so in a command line for DOS, he typed:

    C:\> del *.dl

    Which the computer read as del *.dl* which meant within seconds it was deleting every Dynamic Link Library on the PC, and in short order it crashed and then would not boot.

    So yes, especially in older Windows systems, you could delete all kinds of shit to bork it.

  • AnonTwo@kbin.social
    18·
    11 months ago

    I mean, there’s a reason they don’t let you delete system32 anymore

    It’s like one of the earliest troubleshooting joke memes. It just so happens people actually did that, and not because they wanted to do that.

    But like on earlier versions of Windows you could absolutely delete any folder on the drive. I think there’s even a story about an uninstaller that accidentally deleted the entire root of the drive because it wasn’t written correctly.

  • corporateHippie@lemmy.ml
    14·
    11 months ago

    Yep, this was me a few weeks ago. I was running widows and linux dualboot on separate hard drives. I decided to reformat the windows drive since I was never using it. Apparently I had installed the bootloader to the drive which windows was on…

    • Octopus@thelemmy.club
      2·
      11 months ago

      Yes. Also happened to me. Linux distros also do this (if you didn’t specify a separate boot partition), so next time you need to erase an OS, go into that partition, and remove the folder corresponding to the OS like “Windows” or “Ubuntu”.

    • azimir@lemmy.ml
      5·
      11 months ago

      It’s a true Unix tool: it does one thing really well and it’s up to the user to not fuck it up. Always double check the if= and of= before you hit enter on a dd! That’s how power works and I’d rather have power over my computer than have it be the other way around.

      Yes, I’ve fucked up a few dd commands over the years. Lessons learned.

  • ch00f@lemmy.world
    7·
    11 months ago

    I had a dream the other night that I accidentally deleted the ls command and it broke a bunch of shit on my linux server.

    Yet it still booted, and my mdadm raid array was still intact. I had to boot from a live CD to copy the command over.

    As someone who knows enough about linux to run a ubuntu file server, but has never contributed to a meaningful open source project in his life, is this something that can actually happen?

    • Falmarri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Sure. There’s a story around somewhere of someone deleting basically all of /bin and was able to recover the live system

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    5·
    11 months ago

    Nothing like disabling the screen in the BIOS/UEFI. Guaranteed adrenaline

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
    4·
    11 months ago

    System32 is not the bootloader. You can delete it all day long once you change permissions and unhide it.