12 mo. ago • 94%

Very useful tip

63 comments

To he fair, it is removing the french language pack (if installed).

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- Well, technically yeah. But at what cost?
  
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  I removed the French language pack
  
  What did it cost you?
  
  Everything
  
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  None. Just profit.
  
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  pan to Thanos
  
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I just se saved 206 GiB on my drive. Thanks!

Who knew the funny diacritics used so much storage?

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sudo rm -fr /* is short for sudo rm --for-real /*

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- Super-do real-magic --for-real /* (<- that's a magic wand)
  
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  Lmaooooo
  
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  Su means substitute user, not super user
  
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  I thought it begins a comment.
  
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- 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.
  
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  I mean.
  People have been saying "press alt F4 to change your IRC nick" or whatever for several decades
  
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- -force -recursive but I like the way you think
  
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don't forget no-preserve-root to remove all the roots and prevent it from reinstalled

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- since it affects /* and not / no-preserve-root isn't needed
  
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- Well, you don't want the French pack to re-grow... So, good tip..
  
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- 'root' referred to the Fr*nch root words
  
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for real

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I think that was a load-bearing language pack - my entire system has caved-in!

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Yeah and an old joke that doesn't even work anymore since.. decades, now? For those kind of folders, extra flags are required

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- since it affects /* and not / the extra flag isn't necessary
  
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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

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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.

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- There kind of is one, but it is overridden by -f
  
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  You also need the flag "--no-preserve-root".
  
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- 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 !
  
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- You can create an alias in ".bashrc" just in case.
  
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Fixed timezone issues. Thank you.

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Didn't know we could say the f-word on Lemmy

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do you hear the people sing

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- i hear they sing vaguely swear-y words
  
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What's wrong with the French language pack?

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- Not enough baguette 🥖
  
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  au bon pain
  
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- Omelette du fromage
  
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  🎶That's all you can say-y🎶
  
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- It's in French.
  
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  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
  
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- chocolatine
  
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  Lalatina
  
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Pourquoi ?

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That's racist

But also, please do this if you're a true American patriot...

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- Guys, think about it before you downvote...
  
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Hon hon hon

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That's a big egg. Of course, egg is just how you say oof when you remove the french language pack.

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- Œuf
  
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nixos peeps: 😎

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