It tells you how to exit if you press ctrl+C, which is many people’s first instinct.

You wouldn’t download someone’s awesome tile art

Fun fact: there’s a group that shares this goal but was actually capable of doing it: https://www.scratch.mit.edu/

(TL;DR you can just let people explore coding in a simple language/engine and that’s enough of a stepping stone)

https://piefed.blahaj.zone/comment/3791025

A near miss and a disaster are worlds apart in terms of consequence, but very close in terms of what went wrong.

https://xkcd.com/1251/ (there is always an xkcd about it)

Is there any reason to use a root account? If you had used sudo for each privilege needing command in stead it would have stopped you.