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.

  • @NorthWestWind
    1•5 hours ago

    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.