i had a syntax error in my dotfiles that took me two hours to solve.
it was a missing semicolon that was wayyy above where the error said it was. it didn’t even say missing semicolon, instead saying unexpected ‘}’ on line …
and a need to find another PC to flash an archiso to a flash drive ('cause ofc I didn’t have one at the time).
you can do that from your phone using etchdroid
i don’t remember ever breaking my system in a terrible way, but when i started using linux (with linux mint) i uninstalled ca-certificates and i think that uninstalled the whole DE