Follow-up from “Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?”.
Here’s mine - the laptop from which I’m typing right now has a broken touchpad that keeps jumping and clicking randomly, and does not work. Well, I can’t afford to fix it, but at the moment, I was so pissed off I punched the touchpad really hard, and the machine panicked with all the lights blinking. A few more revival abuses, and the machine was back to life, but since I was running a nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade in the background, I blew off my boot partition. I think I just broke the unbreakable distro.
I ran ‘rm -rf ~’ because I fat fingered the ~ instead of the 1 and wiped my home folder
alias rm='rm -i'This could save your life
Adding ‘-f’ overrides the ‘-i’.
That’s not going to help you if you use
-rfthoughSimilar. I was not pranked or anything. I simply ran it in the wrong folder. Alas, it was a gentoo install so took 3-4 days to recompile.