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shutdown -h now on the wrong machine. Should have been “-r”. No IPMI but important enough to force me to drive to the office at night.
Ever since, I force myself to wait a couple seconds before sending any shutdown command, and tend to use reboot instead.
I footgunned myself with iptables once and couldn't even google how to fix it. (Well, I could with my phone, just not the convenient google - copy - paste - run workflow)
I don't remember the details, but I was trying to control internet access of a VM guest and ended up controlling my own too.
Mine was wiping my vps while backing it up. Luckily for me I only lost some files that I could easily replace.
I tried upgrading instead of a fresh install.
Needless to say, I ended up doing a fresh install eventually...
Rermoved the Wireless card drivers while troubleshooting the Internet connection..
One time on Manjaro i had a dependency issue regarding python3. So i just removed it. The I watched in horror as i saw what packages depend on python3, including pacman and manjaro-system, but did not dare to interrupt the process and end up with a half-broken system, and my curiosity wanted to see it play out. Then I rebooted, and thus legally turned my Manjaro system into a half-working Arch install. It even displayed the OS as Arch Linux. Still managed to fix it without reinstalling by downloading the package files from http mirrors, but if i was smart the entire thing should have taken 5 minutes instead of a full afternoon. Was a valuable learning experience tho
I activated aur in majoro. Twice.
Now I use endeavourOS to install my arch.btw, lol