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screenshot of searching "test" in start page that doesn't return any results

EDIT: looks like they're back.

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[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How does a search engine being offline interrupt a device flashing?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Its quite embarrassing you've asked this, tbh. Obviously you've never run

dd if=$(while :; do curl bing.com/q=$RANDOM; done) of=/dev/sda1

and I think that's sad.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

I want to do this now

[–] invisiblegorilla@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Holy fuckshits. You crazy motherfucker.

[–] ashaman2007@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

Is this secure drive erasure 🤔🤔🤔

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago
[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Idk why it happened. Maybe the program uses that API to find new firmware versions. It was stuck at the beginning of the procedure