What is the worst way to break your system without deleting data

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sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/mem
chmod -R 000 /
- In the early days of ext2, it was possible to unlink("/")
  
  I also saw init() go zombie once. Had to hard cycle the system and pray fsck didn't frag anything.
- Dont forget to chown to root,set all special bits and a+x
I hear if you privately run a Tor exit node, the FBI will make a free offsite data transfer
Copy few debian system files into your arch directory.
Bricking your BIOS comes to mind.

Physical damage, spills, etc.
- Running rm -rf /sys/firmware/efi/efivars and having a shitty motherboard incapable of recovering from it.
With a hammer.
Probably not the worst way but breaking the bootloader is definitely annoying.
Installing KDE on my EeePC 900 didn't work out too well
simple: sudo apt remove apt

apt 🔫 apt

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