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With great power comes great responsibility. Do check twice what you write.
Jokes aside, it has happened to almost everyone... and then you learn to QUADRUPLE CHECK dd commands.
I haven't accidentally deleted a bunch of data yet (which, considering 99% of my interaction with Linux is when I'm SSH'd into a user's server, I am very paranoid about not doing), but I have run fsck on a volume without mounting the read/write flashcache with dirty blocks on it first.
Oops.
It will happen to you sooner or later ๐... we're all dead on a long enough time scale ๐คท ๐.
or just don't attach any drives except the main one to your system. ever.
That's a very bleak future... at least for me.