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linuxmemes @lemmy.world hypertown @lemmy.world 1 yr. ago

Very useful tip

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To he fair, it is removing the french language pack (if installed).
- Well, technically yeah. But at what cost?
  
  I removed the French language pack
  
  What did it cost you?
  
  Everything
  
  None. Just profit.
  
  pan to Thanos
I just se saved 206 GiB on my drive. Thanks!

Who knew the funny diacritics used so much storage?
sudo rm -fr /* is short for sudo rm --for-real /*
- Super-do real-magic --for-real /* (<- that's a magic wand)
  
  Lmaooooo
  
  Su means substitute user, not super user
  
  I thought it begins a comment.
- Remember that AI answer that said that adding -f option was to get a confirmation before deletion ?
  
  I'm a bit concerned that this kind of meme will get a lot more real when people will blindly trust AI for commands.
  
  Unfortunately I couldn't find the post in question but if I recall it was GitHub AI telling boldly that you can add -f to your RM command to get a confirmation...
  
  Read the man people. RTFM is still a good advice.
  
  I mean.
  People have been saying "press alt F4 to change your IRC nick" or whatever for several decades
- -force -recursive but I like the way you think
don't forget no-preserve-root to remove all the roots and prevent it from getting reinstalled
- since it affects /* and not / no-preserve-root isn't needed
- Well, you don't want the French pack to re-grow... So, good tip..
- 'root' referred to the Fr*nch root words
for real
What would this actually do? I'm assuming it's the equivalent of deleting system32 from Windows.
- A little more destructive 😅
  “As a ‘super user’, do ‘remove’ with ‘force’ and ‘recursively’ everything starting from the beginning of the hard drive (‘/‘)
  
  Though I think most consumer Linux OS has like 2-3 warnings before actually doing it……… doesn’t stop everybody 😅
- In Linux, the root of the filesystem is /
  
  The command would remove recursively every file/directory in the filesystem, essentially nuking the whole system.
  
  Im not sure if it would delete the whole system. Isn't it more likely that it will destroy everything until it kills a file/directory necessary for the operation to run?
  
  Thanks :)
- it's more like deleting the entire (C:) disk
  
  It's more like deleting every drive connected (mounted) to your system.
I think that was a load-bearing language pack - my entire system has caved-in!
Yeah and an old joke that doesn't even work anymore since.. decades, now? For those kind of folders, extra flags are required
- since it affects /* and not / the extra flag isn't necessary
Also, remember to empty your recycle bin by doing sudo rf -rm /usr/bin, and don't forget the super recycle bin for hidden super garbage sudo rm -rf /usr/sbin
I've never actually tried this but feel like rm should have a built in warning specifically for that command letting them know they've been trolled and have a y/N prompt.
- There kind of is one, but it is overridden by -f
  
  You also need the flag "--no-preserve-root".
- Come on, it is super fun. Just install VirtualBox and set up a virtual machine, make sure there is no funky mount point that touches your host machine, and go nuke that VM !
- You can create an alias in ".bashrc" just in case.
Fixed timezone issues. Thank you.
Didn't know we could say the f-word on Lemmy
do you hear the people sing
- i hear they sing vaguely swear-y words
What's wrong with the French language pack?
- Not enough baguette 🥖
  
  au bon pain
- Omelette du fromage
  
  🎶That's all you can say-y🎶
- It's in French.
  
  HE SAID IT HE SAID IT RUN DOR YOUR LILOCED AAAAAAAAAAA. AAAAAAAAAA OH NO IM BEING INFECTEF WIV DER FR🐸🐸🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮NCH AAAAAA JE LUV ZE BEAUGUTES N ZE SNAILS BEACOUP HONHONHOMHOMHON
- chocolatine
  
  Lalatina
Pourquoi ?
That's racist

But also, please do this if you're a true American patriot...
- Guys, think about it before you downvote...
Hon hon hon
That's a big egg. Of course, egg is just how you say oof when you remove the french language pack.
- Œuf
nixos peeps: 😎
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