https://piefed.blahaj.zone/comment/3791025

A near miss and a disaster are worlds apart in terms of consequence, but very close in terms of what went wrong.

https://xkcd.com/1251/ (there is always an xkcd about it)

FYI this comic is by https://stupidtwink.thecomicseries.com/. (also the creator of such internet sensations as “The weed that makes you gay” https://stupidtwink.thecomicseries.com/comics/173/)

Is there any reason to use a root account? If you had used sudo for each privilege needing command in stead it would have stopped you.