I’d agree that many people have a learned helplessness when dealing with computers because of a fear that they can easily break their computer.
I disagree that really destroying your computer is a very easy thing to do (sans going into the BIOS or touching the actual hardware)
rm -r /
sudo rm -rf /
sudo rm -rf / &
It’s no fun if you can just C-c to stop it.
I get a creepy feeling just looking at that.
No kidding. It’s like saying ‘Zeeky Boogy Doog’ out loud.
I did that once! Without the sudo, so it was even worse because I was logged in as root. Oops? Now every time I do anything as root I triple-check it. Destroying my system wasn’t really fun, but it taught me a really valuable lesson.
Edit—please disregard this post
I had a boss who did that to an entire lab of computers just after a coworker finished reimaging them.
Yeah, but who’s going to accidentally install linux? ;)
It’s like falling and missing the ground. Happens all the time. For some reason people don’t let me borrow their computers anymore.
Video.
The ‘f’ switch helps!
I’d agree that many people have a learned helplessness when dealing with computers because of a fear that they can easily break their computer.
I disagree that really destroying your computer is a very easy thing to do (sans going into the BIOS or touching the actual hardware)
rm -r /
sudo rm -rf /
sudo rm -rf / &
It’s no fun if you can just C-c to stop it.
I get a creepy feeling just looking at that.
No kidding. It’s like saying ‘Zeeky Boogy Doog’ out loud.
I did that once! Without the sudo, so it was even worse because I was logged in as root. Oops? Now every time I do anything as root I triple-check it. Destroying my system wasn’t really fun, but it taught me a really valuable lesson.
Edit—please disregard this post
I had a boss who did that to an entire lab of computers just after a coworker finished reimaging them.
Yeah, but who’s going to accidentally install linux? ;)
It’s like falling and missing the ground. Happens all the time. For some reason people don’t let me borrow their computers anymore.
Video.
The ‘f’ switch helps!