• papertowels@lemmy.one
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    5 months ago

    I was tech support in college. I was handed a hard drive to wipe.

    Connect HDD to laptop, load up DBAN, select drive, kick it off. NBD.

    Oops, I selected the laptops os drive…

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        5 months ago

        I once decided to actually use the dread command.

        rm -rf /

        I was nuking the OS, so fuck it.

        Forgot to unmount my data first… And that was before I even knew that recovery services existed, so I just chucked it in the trash. Fuck me. If I still had the drive (and an IDE controller,) it would take all of 5 minutes to re-obtain access to my “lost” data. I’m a fucking idiot, but past me was also an utter moron.