• masterofn001@lemmy.ca
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    I don’t have a printer.

    I don’t like open ports.

    Decides to remove CUPS.

    “apt list -i *cups*”

    There are like 7 CUPS packages and dependencies.

    for each package “apt remove cups --simulate”

    Get to package 6 and decide ‘Ok. No major issues, looks fine.’

    For the first 6 packages “sudo apt remove CUPS

    This is easy and painless!

    On 7th …

    Removing cups-pk or some shit… Removing mint-common… Removing cinnamon-desktop…

    Oh, fuck

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        When I was new to Linux I broke EVERYTHING.

        Often.

        The more you break, the more you learn.

        Nobody tells me I can’t modify this file.

        Eg. I once accidentally chmodded the entire root directory. (Recursion incident)

        Linux does not like when the root fs permissions are ALL changed.

        I had no internet at the time. And no idea what timeshift was.

        Thankfully, I had a library card.

        Learned a lot about permissions that month.

        (I enjoy doing things the hard way)

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          Did you manage to get your system working again? Iirc I did the same on Arch a few years ago and it wasn’t too bad to restore the system after looking at the permissions on a fresh install (maybe a container or vm, idr).

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            I tried. It was so long ago now I can’t even remember. It was xubuntu, though.

            But, I’m pretty sure I had to take it down to the local shop and get a copy of the iso since I didn’t have a fresh install to compare. (This wasn’t the only time I absolutely borked my machine)

            Nowadays, I backup everything. I image the partitions. I create a separate partition for home. And I know what to never touch.

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              Agreed, backups are important. Before switching to NixOS (or image based OS like Fedora Silverblue) I made use of automatic btrfs snapshots. This makes these kinds of screw-ups simple to revert.

              I’d like to say an overly optimistic chmod -R didn’t happen again but my old Nextcloud instance would like a word.

              Thanks for reminding to do my backups again. I’ve recently build a server with enough storage so I’ll probably setup restic or borg. That means I can bring my external backup HDD over to my family as an offline/offsite backup.

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      I did something very similar while I was drunkenly troubleshooting issues on an old laptop and I gave up as soon as I saw the desktop going I just closed the lid and reformatted the next day