• rtxn@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Keep it polite, folks. No personal attacks against others, especially speculations regarding mental or emotional capabilities.

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    Lol don’t give them any attention. It’s the same 3 people who didn’t get loved enough during their formative years and cannot distinguish between good attention and bad attention

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    Some of those posts are decent jokes to be honest. Some are just desperate/scare tactics though.

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        24 days ago

        The owner once said they were not a meme community in a post. Empirical evidence disagrees.

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        24 days ago

        I’m not sure. Some posts legitimately seem like Linux users making fun of themselves. Others really seem like people who have an actual grudge against it.

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        23 days ago

        If you satirically make a community about the Earth being a triangle, users who actually believe it will pop up eventually.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    23 days ago

    linux is terrible because removing the entire root folder can brick your system it should be more like windows where removing system32 can brick your system

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      The mention of UEFI in this context likely means they are thinking of a deletion recursing through sysfs and by extension deleting all visible UEFI variables which, in some firmware editions and versions, causes it not to be able to get through post or into the setup menu.

      I vaguely recall this and the general issue was very bad firmware design, but it was possible to make it impossible to even reinstall a system. If you were industrious in windows you could have done the same thing, so malware under windows could also brick such platforms.

      Of course rm has more safeguards on it so you have to pass more flags and really really be asking it to try to screw things up.

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      I thought the same at first, then I started to think the main person was just trolling, now I’m pretty sure they’re actually serious

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    Microwaving any of your computer parts can brick them.

    I accidentally ran rm -rf / on my work MacBook once. Proper backups and patience with yourself are far better solutions than recommending to let Microsoft infect your computer.

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    Quick glance AFat that place and wow. Talk about people completely and utterly missing the point

    Yeah, I know I can be annoying when I tell people for the 100th time that they should install Linux, but I wouldn’t have to say that if they didn’t get their computer hacked / full of viruses / full with Microsoft bloat and spyware they want removed and come to me to fix that shit on each of those occasions.