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    [–] [email protected] 196 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Omitting the dot removes Canadian French too

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Sacrifices must be made for the greater good. \s

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 104 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 /*

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week 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?

    [–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

    Thank you, kind person.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week 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.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

    You had one task...

    [–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Technically this does remove the French language pack.

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

    My keyboard and mouse speak French with my pc

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I wonder how many people have fallen for this

    [–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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    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.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

    Medium. No fries, please.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    you don't need it with /*, especially ./*

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

    The complete removal of bloat.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

    I love French strings in Python.

    fr"Hello, {name}!"
    
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Although I'm French, I still laugh at the stupid memes by the English speaking internet that make fun of my people. Then again, there is a sense of justice in imagining people falling for this. 😁

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    This is very much the Linux version of the old tricking gamers to alt+F4 gag.

    My favorite was when I was teaching a friend Squad, and we were in a vehicle. I explained you hit the F keys to change seat (which is true), so F1, F2, F3, etc. Noticing that seats 1, 2 and 3 were filled, I then told him he can hold down alt to swap seats faster. He then immediately quits the game xD

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

    Bro, the Counter-Strike devs put porn in the game. I’m surprised they were all able to get away with it.

    Huh? Oh no, dude it’s easy. Hold alt and press f4 and it brings it up. Then just browse it with the s and d keys.

    Bahahaha! Half the lobby is gone!

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    How do you think this is making fun of your people? It's making fun of non-French people that would want to "remove the French language pack" because they're not French

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

    This is not making fun of french people, but this might trick people who laugh at french people. That made me smile I must admit.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Nice try, but we know the French don't speak English.

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

    Make sure to read the man page before so you don't remove the runtime functions

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