• erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Jesus Christ. One part of me really wants to see some green text rant about this. Another part of me empathizes with the horrible pain and suffering it would wield.

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      1 year ago

      The best part is Linux used to mount EFI vars and make them editable in the root filesystem. I believe there are preventions against this now, but 5 years ago or so doing this would delete crucial EFI vars on some motherboards, bricking them.

      https://lwn.net/Articles/674940/

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      1 year ago

      I actually dont keep anything important on my PC, it’s basically just a gaming and homework machine. So tempted to do stuff like this for the meme and also because setting up arch again might teach me some things