What are some of the easiest ways for a beginner to make their system untable when they start tinkering with it?

  • node815@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Instability you ask? This is like a slow creep to instability and freeze your system. It’s called the Bash Fork Bomb (look it up if you want), but it’s a copy/paste you put in and it slows your system down by consuming all the system resources and cause it to lock up HARD. It goes away after a system reboot, though.

    I was going to post the code here, but decided to play nice. But if you are curious:

    https://itsfoss.com/fork-bomb/

    (edit: Made ‘slow’ ‘slows’)