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Always read the fine print (lemmy.world)

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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 131 points 2 months ago (4 children)

i used to work in remote tech support. one time i disabled the network adapter on the customers computer that i was remoting into

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

I work a lot with remote servers. I locked myself out in a similar way once or twice before. I felt like the dumbest person alive every time it happened.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I changed some of my router's VPN settings from abroad once because it wasn't performing as expected.

To apply the setting (through the GUI), I remembered you had to press the stop button and then the start button (there was no restart button in that menu). Guess what happened.

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

average router GUI

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's pretty minor.

I've done some terrible things. That's how you learn (you know what they say, test in prod)

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

oh i've done other fuck ups too...

e.g. one time i ran

rm -r /*

on a server.

luckily it was a test server, but i did manage to wipe one of the drives shared across the entire testing cluster with that one

[–] papertowels@lemmy.one 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was tech support in college. I was handed a hard drive to wipe.

Connect HDD to laptop, load up DBAN, select drive, kick it off. NBD.

Oops, I selected the laptops os drive....

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i've done something similar with dd before

[–] higgsboson@dubvee.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I once decided to actually use the dread command.

rm -rf /

I was nuking the OS, so fuck it.

Forgot to unmount my data first...