this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Reboot, 10 seconds later: Oh good, it works.

Be Root, 10 hours later: Why won't this work!?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For Mac Problems,

Lick Boot

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

sudo reboot now, because waiting's for chumps

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You guys log in as regular users?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No please don't encourage running things as root as a random troubleshooting step. Only run as root if you understand what you are doing and know what the command is going to do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Disregard this comment, become root and then run rm -rm /* to fix many common pc problems (it won't wipe your drives :trollface:) ~s~

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[–] darcy 1 points 1 year ago

dont forget --no-preserve-root or else it wont work properly

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

Real admins screw instead of root

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

Reinstall Windows, get new, different problems 🤡

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

software guide: if it fails to run, it needs configuration. you really shouldn't run this thing as root

me: 🎶how bout I do anyway🎶

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, what’s the worst that could go run with running pip as root?

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

Is 'got root?' still a thing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

sudo shutdonw -r NOWWW

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

restart systemd service-> Restart Shell -> Reboot OS -> Reinstall OS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

vanillaOS wants to know your location

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago