I accidentally untarred archive intended to be extracted in root directory, which among others included some files for /etc directory.
I went on to rm -rv ~/etc, but I quickly typed rm -rv /etc instead, and hit enter, while using a root account.

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[–] 5 points 8 months ago

~/bin is the old-school location from before .local became a thing, and some of us have stuck to that ancient habit.

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