You are going to fuck this up. Don’t come crawling back to me when you lose all your data since the dawn of time and you completely brick this goddamn computer. This is your one and only warning.

    • Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      1 month ago

      I guess they meant “beyond repair if you don’t have access to a live boot USB or the means to create one”. Gotta remember who this warning is meant for. For those kind of users, “beyond repair” might technically be true.

      • mormund@feddit.org
        1·
        1 month ago

        Maybe its also a ship of theseus type situation. If you have to copy /etc/ from somewhere else, is it still the same installation?

      • bigboitricky@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        rolls up sleeves Not if I gave anything to say about it! Watch a master at work missing boot folder missing rescue disk missing OS backups

    • ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      They probably don’t even read what the message has to say. When I’ve helped some family members with their computer I’ve seen something important pop up and they just closed it immediately. I asked what did that message say and they said “I don’t know I just closed it.” :/

      • Ricky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.com
        1·
        1 month ago

        With modern windows error messages being absolutely useless “something went wrong :/” tier messages I can’t even blame them that much anymore.

    • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
      0·
      1 month ago

      Mac and Linux users do this too. If they didn’t then systems administration wouldn’t be a career path.

      • mech@feddit.org
        1·
        1 month ago

        As a systems administrator, I’ll not worry about users taking over my job as long as Citrix exists.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 month ago

    this is why I moved everyone in my family to atomic fedora. This is almost entirely not a thinng there. To be fair while all of them regularly fucked up windows, only my mom ever fucked up regular linux distros.

    • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Yep, they used to. SUSE actually shipped a second version (or maybe just a shortcut with some startup-option) of Dolphin to provide “Dolphin as Root”. I think this was inspired by said approach

  • Rozaŭtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    1 month ago

    With this character’s file’s death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game backup to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldOP
      0·
      1 month ago

      I installed something that I got very disappointed, and wanted to get rid of it

      the script itself tried to rm something in a directory but failed, sudo dolphin didn’t work, so I found out how to delete stuff from… I think /bin or /usr/local/bin ?

      That needed me to run as admin/root so I did it. I deleted 1 file, the leftover artifact of the thing I didn’t want installed. I then stopped using dolphin as admin so that I wouldn’t break everything forever.

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldOP
          0·
          1 month ago

          I’m getting used to it; I customised it to my liking and it even has a terminal built in. what do you recommend instead?

          also, what do you recommend that works like VSCode for writing shit into that I never save and leave open forever, and has a search functionality on all open files that can work on any programming language I want (through compiler/interpreter and colour scheme plugins)?