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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

“I followed some guide online for a completely unrelated issue because it said it could make my games go faster and I rm -rf’d something important looking”

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Norgur@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
"First step in this guide is to poste.the following code into a console

echo /dev/null > /etc/Pulseaudio.conf

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- scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  WARNING: This command requires sudo priviledges, only continue if you are sure you know what you’re doing! [y/N] >
  
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  - Norgur@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oh, sry, I didn't count entering "so" and thus doing everything as administrator for no fucking reason as a step of it's open since that is mandate for bad guides
    
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    Voytrekk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’ve been doing Security+ training and they have you do everything as root, which goes against the very principle of least privilege.
    
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    scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    ah right right right in this case it makes sense. Sudo just gets in the way, stupid valve and their warnings and protections, just do everything as root! We joke because we were all like that once, and you only gotta destroy your bootloader once to learn
    
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