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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months 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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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months 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”
Norgur@kbin.social 10 months ago
"First step in this guide is to poste.the following code into a console
echo /dev/null > /etc/Pulseaudio.confscrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months ago
WARNING: This command requires sudo priviledges, only continue if you are sure you know what you’re doing! [y/N] >Norgur@kbin.social 10 months 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
Voytrekk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve been doing Security+ training and they have you do everything as root, which goes against the very principle of least privilege.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months 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