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[โ€“] folaht@lemmy.ml 1 points 48 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

sudo rm -rf ../* for a brief moment
I was not at /run/media/F16C-BD43/boot
Sudo lost.
Move lost.
Copy lost.
No cloud.
Undecryptable.
Everything else worked.
I said my goodbyes.

[โ€“] Kynsey@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

All the lies, the damned lies, and for what?

[โ€“] ShotDonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Okay as cryptic as possible, hmm, let me see... I encrypted everything and lost the keys?

[โ€“] Phlimy@jlai.lu 1 points 2 hours ago

I should have never deleted them.

[โ€“] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

My biggest regret is my biggest regret. Duh.

[โ€“] RichardNixos@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago

Veterinary syringes are "veterinary" for a reason

[โ€“] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

U2FsdGVkX1/rCUpXegKXQomEh3JCrnITLN8orsRQ+cBau8svaDsACOyTYoPfCjv+WTbRPXarv9ljA2H+zOPNkQlTzE5Xew4Qqkz2G4UqlH9DNTE+W6iRpB2swjSRp9yQkniT1zZXz0VwANwC3dPxLe/h8pxowx0PNBA9IzO8pCtXO3SLLZCAKErpGQ4GHpUZiwgTQZuWBewajYkGHrXwlrRSjUCVDjf0f8yXw9E37yRfc+0R6HOR1bqF86Yz1xOKXiK3FU+IQJxTdlxdhblmLUkDbW2KsGC+aIU7e5QXmivu+qCkOR21bP+554n1qEISu8Zv0cyadHKtMk5OgUCJpvH2Oi+Rt+vVQZLfEQfuhHHo9tzuxwbaFE0Ka2fUH0GrzdVLv5Mc2fXQonAZCcacjzcVoS6WVUlnbe5i5KKJ7ng=

[โ€“] grandel@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What is this? A base64 encoded binary?

[โ€“] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

AES-256 baby. When I go cryptic, I go cryptic.

Choosing the university near my home village.

If you're still in secondary school, only apply to units far enough away that your parents will have no choice but to let you move out.

leaving the womb

[โ€“] fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Should have been more brave that one summer.

[โ€“] azimir@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Been there. Multiple times.

[โ€“] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Choosing the easier path when it really mattered

[โ€“] AFLYINTOASTER@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Right person, wrong time

[โ€“] azimir@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Panicked at the wrong moment.

If only I had stayed for seconds on bacon that day

[โ€“] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Shouldn't have looked

[โ€“] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I shouldn't have gotten high and asked to suck his dick.

[โ€“] ShotDonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Hmm, that's pretty cryptic tho.

[โ€“] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i feel like thats not that cryptic i can imagine how that would happen

[โ€“] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago

i can imagine how that would happen

seems kinda gay

[โ€“] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I should have gotten high and let her ride my hips.

[โ€“] cinoreus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Thanks OP, now the curiosity is killing me

[โ€“] railcar@midwest.social 8 points 1 day ago

YOU of all people should know

[โ€“] lordnikon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I should have never gone to that bookstore.

[โ€“] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Following in my dadโ€™s footsteps.

[โ€“] vrek@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it wasn't for that horse I wouldn't of spent that year at college

[โ€“] HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, the candy corn.

[โ€“] andxz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Should've told her.

[โ€“] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago

Simultaneously it's saying things but also not saying things.

I should've said "No, Abso-fucking-lutely NOT".

[โ€“] asdasd201@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

I should've travel to there when all the circumstances were on my side.

[โ€“] tourist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

the way I ruined my nostrils, among other things

[โ€“] monovergent@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

I should've known he was an iPad kid

First day on Earth

[โ€“] BlindFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Shoulda realized we only liked shiny and new things

I met the All Thing but I listened to the voices

This happened some time ago, but I did something kinda bad/cringe and afterwards I thought "I really shouldn't have done that" and it haunts me to this day. That is my biggest regret.

[โ€“] Naich@piefed.world 2 points 1 day ago

Taking Elsie to work that day in October.

[โ€“] 7toed@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Let the dog in the neighbors open door.

[โ€“] SuperEars@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

A half measure

[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 1 day ago

Knowing what I don't know