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When I borked my Arch install back in 2013/14 (I can hardly remember). I was so pissed off I completely destroyed my laptop. It was an old HP Pavilion (however it has nvidia graphics). I regretted it later. I could still be using that old laptop today if id just stopped and taken a breath.

I cant remember exactly what happened, but I think I went away on holiday for about 4 weeks and came back and did the old "pacman -Syu" and well... needless to say it broke and I was unable to recover. I did spend a day or two trying to recover it, but it seemed hopeless.

It wasn't the data loss I cared about, it was my configs. I was young(er) then, and foolish to not have backups. I didn't even git back then. My system was heavily customised and I wasn't experienced enough to be able to reinstall and get it back to where it was to I ceremoniously destroyed the entire laptop. I know it was wrong, but it felt good.

EDIT: I literally took to it with a hammer and a screw driver. Hammering holes through the entire thing.
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You worst moment on a Unix system - by venam - 23-05-2016, 01:40 AM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by jkl - 23-05-2016, 11:00 AM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by cjm - 23-05-2016, 11:26 AM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by z3bra - 23-05-2016, 12:19 PM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by rocx - 23-05-2016, 12:32 PM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by xero - 23-05-2016, 03:46 PM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by Dworin - 24-05-2016, 01:44 AM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by z3bra - 24-05-2016, 03:37 AM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by pkal - 13-11-2020, 03:24 PM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by movq - 13-11-2020, 05:31 PM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by pkal - 13-11-2020, 05:43 PM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by s0kx - 24-11-2020, 12:21 PM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by venam - 24-11-2020, 12:36 PM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by freem - 24-11-2020, 01:43 PM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by venam - 24-11-2020, 01:57 PM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by freem - 24-11-2020, 05:07 PM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by jkl - 24-11-2020, 05:13 PM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by Dworin - 24-11-2020, 10:35 PM
RE: You worst moment on a Unix system - by pfr - 25-11-2020, 02:51 AM