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narc0tic_bird, in Follow-up to installing Arch

So did you actually turn off secure boot in your UEFI setup? Or did you just state that it’s off to archinstall?

Hellmo_Luciferrari,

I turned it off in bios. Sorry for confusion due to order of information or wording.

DerpDerpingtonIsHere, in [QUESTION] I installed Apache OpenOffice

Try onlyoffice. It has excel, weird, and PowerPoint alternatives, very compatible with Microsoft office, and looks like it was made this century. If you need any of the other apps then I’d look into something else.

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

I dont remember what I did when I was stoned. The next day I tried to do normal sudo dnf install and it doesnt recognize any command anymore. I tried restarting it and I cant login anymore because the login scripts dont work. Not that funny but just happened and weirdest way I have broke it

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

Let’s see: Unintentionally making a proxy accessible to anyone online

Accidentally deallocating an ext4 partition and then having to run testdisk on it

Trying to manually create a grub entry and corrupting the bootloader

Installing a arch derivertive and having it silently overwrite grub

Installing puppy Linux and then trying to get it to use apt

Incorrect use of ppa’s on mint resulting in very old packages being installed

And many others besides

papertowels,

The first time I enabled o auth for something self hosted, I gave access to anyone with a Gmail account.

herc3141, (edited ) in What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

Backed up the whole disk image to an external drive because I didn’t have time for a proper backup but knew I would need some of those files later.

Installed a fresh new OS on the same disk, used it for a couple of months.

Needed to make some space on the external drive I had the backup on so I’ll just delete the backed up system files from it.

cd /mnt/external_drive

rm - r /usr /boot …

As you can probably see, a fresh new install was happening again

Scribbd,

Took me a solid second to get it as well.

martinb,

☠️

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

It was only in a container on a Chromebook, but I’ll share it anyway. One time, I had installed Android Studio but found it mildly annoying that I got a line when using apt about Android Studio and some error on a certain line of this one file. I believe the file was something related to dpkg, and after changing some things within the file, I seemed to have broken apt. Luckily, I had a backup, but it was a few days old, so I had to reinstall some apps.

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

Oh, i have a brilliant one:

A few years ago i spent a lot of time converting .flac-files into .ogg-files in order to put on my oldschool iPod. As I did a lot of repetitive typing - entering $dir / for file in flac ; do convert etc / mkdir -p $somewhere/$artist/$album / mv $somewhere/.ogg->$new_dir/ and so on - I thought: “hm lets just write a loop over loops for all the artists here and then all the albums and at the same time create the nested directories somewhere else… hm actually in the home directory… and later love everything on the iPod at once.”

so i was in my music folder with the artists-folders i wanted to convert. i did something wrong

So i did my complicated script directly in the shell. I made something wrong and instead of creating a folder “/artist/album” I created 3 folders in my current working directory: “”, “artist” and “album”. hmph dammit gotta try again… but first : i have to clean up these useless folders in the current dir. so i type of course this: "$ rm -r ~ artist album " after about 5 seconds of wondering why it took so long i realized my error. o_O I stopped the running command, but it was (of course) too late and i bricked my current installation. All the half-deleted config files made or impossible to start normally and extremely tedious to repair it by hand, so i reinstalled.

the16bitgamer, in What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?
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stupid was when I wanted to test Linux Mint on an external SSD, and didn’t check that the bootloader wasn’t going to overwrite my internal drive’s.

So anyway I’m running Linux Mint now.

fl42v,

That’s an interesting way to distro hop for sure

martinb,

It’s a fine distribution. I have it on my desktop and at least one laptop. But yes, a weird way to decide to distro hop 🤣

the16bitgamer,
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I was on Manjaro, and I didn’t want to put the effort in for a third time just to break it again. While I prefer arch based distros, I’ve been liking Mint since I can almost use it without a terminal like manjaro.

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

Wanted a cool bootscreen on my Nixos machine - commented out the bootloader to troubleshoot, why my meme-boot-picture wouldn’t show - after rebooting, it loaded straight into the BIOS and finally realized what I had done… Was able to fix it thankfully

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

I was running Fedora. Something like 27 or so. I needed drivers. I don’t remember if it was AMD or Nvidia, but they were only available on RedHat.

So I downloaded the RedHat drivers for the GPU and forced it to install. It worked! It was great.

Then when I updated the distro to the next release… everything failed. It was dropping into grub, but no video was output. Ooof.

So I ended up enabling a terminal console and connecting to it via a serial port to debug. I had to completely uninstall that RPM and I was never happy that it was properly gone. So a few months later I ended up reinstalling the whole OS.

On the plus side, I learned a lot about grub and serial consoles. Worth it.

robolemmy, in [QUESTION] I installed Apache OpenOffice
@robolemmy@lemmy.world avatar

Even Oracle, a company that funds OpenOffice and has its own proprietary fork of it, doesn’t use it internally. Oracle internal laptops come with libre office installed.

lemmy_user_838586,

Lol, that’s hilariously an “Oracle” thing to do.

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

sudo rm -f /lib /use/share/backup/blah blah.tar.gz

Note the space.

downhomechunk,
@downhomechunk@midwest.social avatar

Oh man, you really owned those libs

liara,

You need to use chown if you want to own the libs

martinb,

Top tip, if tired, replace the rm -f part of the command with something innocuous for a first run. Actually, is better to do this mistake once so that the two important lessons are learned… Backup (obviously, in your case it was backups, but the point still stands) and double check your command if it has potential for destruction 👍

InputZero,

Might be recoverable if you had a live distro ready. Otherwise, o7.

evatronic,

Oh no, this was back in the days when we loaded our distros by way of a stack of floppy disks.

sevenapples,

spaces in rm are a classic one, they’re even mentioned in the Unix-haters handbook

kbal, in Mozilla Firefox 122 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New
@kbal@fedia.io avatar

will finally ship with a DEB package for Debian-based distributions

That's good news for the more specifically Ubuntu-based distributions and their users. I trust that Debian will continue to build its own packages.

SuperSpruce,

Interestingly, just today I switched Firefox from a snap to a deb due to the limitations of the former on Ubuntu.

wiki_me,

I had some issues that happened on debian and not on firefox nix package, maybe debian packaging is not great and this can help improve it.

kevincox,
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It may still be nice to have a reference implementation. For example maybe they can see if there are extra hardening options that they can enable or adopt the more seamless update flow.

Ephera,

Yeah, really happy about this. $WORKPLACE uses Ubuntu and the Snap is just mildly broken in multiple ways. The .tar.bz2 works, but we would have had to script the download + creation of the .desktop file. We successfully procrastinated doing the latter long enough, that Mozilla fixed it.

reverendsteveii, in Ruffle (a open source re-implementation of adobe flash player) reviews improvements made in 2023

blog updates seem to be signed by someone named Dinnerbone

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JustARegularNerd,

Looks like it. There’s a direct link to Nathan Adam’s GitHub within that article

lemmyreader, in Follow-up to installing Arch

From past forums reading I remember that a boot loader in Linux can have trouble booting properly when you use two different physical drives (Rather than one drive and different partitions), I think it needs to specifically get to know about both drives. Does this help ?

Hellmo_Luciferrari,

That very well may help, I read a bit of what you sent. I will have to try when not at work. Thank you!

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