So I was thinking of silly things I’ve done that pseudo-broke my system, or made me think I had a broken system. Like the time I put the cmd :
exit
in my ~/.bash_aliases file and I had to open a text editor to fix it because that broke all the terminals on my machine.
I’m curious what other silly things users have done to confuse themselves.
I had an accident when i tried to change my Debian from using APT package manager to Slackware Pkgtools. When i made a package for Pkgtools, i used Pkgtools built-in chown (which is “Sloppy” according to manpage) and it didn’t just change ownership of the package but also my user folder and files inside my user folder. Because it, my Waydroid had errors
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I think I posted this before in some other thread, but one time back when I used to use Ubuntu, I opened my laptop and the screen was upside-down. Everything worked perfectly, but just upside-down. I went through every display setting I could find, trawled through forums for hours (on a different, non upside-down computer) and got absolutely nowhere. It was at the point where I was thinking I’ll probably have to reformat and start over and this will forever be a mystery.
Then I accidentally solved it when my Playstation controller battery got low and I plugged it into the nearest USB port to charge, which was my laptop. As soon as I plugged it it, the screen flipped back the right way. As it turned out, Ubuntu was talking to the controller and had for some reason interpreted the gyroscope movement as ‘rotate screen’ the last time I charged it. After a couple of minutes of waving the controller around and watching the desktop spin while going “huh”, I just unplugged it when it the right way round and crisis averted!
A few years back, I was installing Arch on an external hard disk. I was basically done, so I powered off the system, but I forgot to unmount the hard disk.
Then I tried to boot to the OS on my computer, which was also Arch, and it got stuck at the BIOS splash screen. No luck rebooting.
I remember panicking (because that was my only machine) and asking my computer teacher what to do and he also had no idea.
I ended up manually unplugging and replugging the hard disk inside the case and it worked. To this day I still don’t know what went wrong.
It seem just an error. Computer shouldn’t have a problem with not unmount HDD. It should just not detect the HDD
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That’s right. It should not have the problem. That’s why this is confusing.
One time while streaming I had someone convince me to install zsh. Almost bricked the thing live. No clue what I was doing that day.
I once tried to log in into my arch workstation, and the password just didn’t work. I had used that password and had not switched distros for 6+ months, and one day it started saying that my password is incorrect. Not just the user password but also the root password. Stopped using arch since that day
