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What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

Tinkering is all fun and games, until it's 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you're about to execute... And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought...

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I've not broken my setup (yet), but I've came close to it one time when I accidentally made a
lesser fork bomb.

I was writting a function that would display how many jobs I currently had in the command prompt,
but when writting the function instead of calling jobs I called the function itself, sourced .bashrc
and now everything was laggy (my pc only has 4GB). Thankfully I was able to shut down the terminal
before my swap got completely consumed.

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I use kitty, it's fast and it allows me to use it as an image viewer

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Could you explain what this was? I couldn't find anything about it while searching.

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Thank you! That was fun to read :)

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