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    [–] overload@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

    The complete removal of bloat.

    [–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 192 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    remove the "." to adress the root of the problem.

    [–] DannyMac@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Omitting the dot removes Canadian French too

    [–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Sacrifices must be made for the greater good. \s

    [–] elephantium@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 104 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Pro tip: Omit the dot . before the / to make sure you cleansed the language pack thoroughly.

    [–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

    And to avoid annoying error messages about preserving the root of the language, add a * at the end. Final command should look like this:

    sudo rm -fr /*

    [–] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

    I’m a simple man, I see code and I copy and paste it into the terminal with no understanding of what it does.

    [–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    So I know nothing and just wandered in here from Top, but this translates as, "Fuck you, all of you, French language, I show you my butthole," right?

    [–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    No, this is a very old joke that uses the fact the command has "fr" in it to trick people about what the command does. Joking aside, here's what the command actually does:

    rm is the command to delete files and folders

    -f is the force modifier. This means it'll keep going even if it encounters problems and just delete as much as it can

    -r is the recursive modifier. That means it'll go down every folder it sees in the target and delete the contents as well, and delete the contents of folders of folders, etc.

    / is the target. This is the root of the filesystem. If you're used to Windows, that's like targeting C:.

    Put it all together, and this command basically deletes your whole filesystem. A safeguard was put in place a while back due to people meming about this and causing newbies to delete their whole system. Now it won't work unless you put in --no-preserve-root, which tells rm that yes, you really mean it, please delete my whole system.

    /* as the target works around that safeguard, because technically deleting everything in root is not the same as deleting root itself.

    [–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Oh, like a more sophisticated version of the old "put your phone in the microwave"joke!

    Thank you, kind person.

    [–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Or the less destructive, "Press Alt+F4 to triforce."

    [–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] elephantium@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago
    [–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    They're all lying to you. It actually removes Romanian -- for real

    [–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I mean, it does remove every language, that's for sure.

    [–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

    As long as it removes French it’s worth it.

    [–] ggppjj@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

    Gotta make sure the root language is removed also. Add --no-preserve-root for that.

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    [–] lustyargonian@lemm.ee 47 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Technically this does remove the French language pack.

    [–] r00ty@kbin.life 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Yes, but it seems the French language pack is a dependency for pretty much everything else! Who knew?

    [–] And009@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

    My keyboard and mouse speak French with my pc

    [–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

    Only if it's installed somewhere beneath the current working directory, whichever that might be when running the command.

    [–] seeking_perhaps@mander.xyz 21 points 1 day ago
    [–] xcutie@linux.community 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    If you are French, the same command works to remove your freedom pack.

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    [–] zorro@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Don't forget to remove the tuber preserves with --no-preserve-root

    [–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 days ago

    If you do /* you don't need that flag, as / will technically not get touched. Just everything in it

    [–] 299792458ms@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I wonder how many people have fallen for this

    [–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago

    Whatever it takes to have a fr🤮nch-free system

    [–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I have last week, tho I wasn't tricked, but simply forgot the "." when cleaning an usb.

    [–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

    Why would you not just format the stick?

    [–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

    What distro were you using? I'd imagine some of the more user friendly distros have a warning?

    ....okay fine. I'll try it on mint when I get home.

    [–] lustyargonian@lemm.ee 20 points 2 days ago
    [–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
    [–] Krompus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago
    [–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I thought this was stupid, how much space could a language pack take? Then I tried it and my system is at least %15 faster, turns out there is a bug in the dialogue disseminator preventing matriarchal ascension in the domestic power structure.

    You do have to add —no-preserve-root though.

    [–] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

    Medium. No fries, please.

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    [–] Gork@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Ever since Napoleon, the Fr*nch have tried to take over Linux to implement their régime baguette.

    [–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

    I love French strings in Python.

    fr"Hello, {name}!"
    
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