- Unplug the computer
- Shut the house electric safety switch down
- Cut the electricity pole nearest to the house
- Bomb the nearest electricity distribution post
nuke it from orbit. it’s the only way to be sure.
Open vim.
Accept vim is the OS now.
ZZ will save file though, the others won’t. You meant ZQ.
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Does colon-capital-Q-exclamation mark even work? I’m pretty sure it’s only lower case q.
its supposed to be lowercase,
but imgflip put the entire text in uppercase.Honestly, the joke landed anyway. I’ve done numerous uppercase-Q trying to quit, because I didn’t let go of
Shift
fast enough after typing the colon…
Was going to say this, myself.
- Ctrl + T + alt
- sudo reboot
Does unplugging the machine not work?
I call my local energy provider and simply cancel my contract with immediate effect.
you can close vim?
“this is my life now”
cat /dev/zero > "/proc/$(pidof vim)/mem"
is my favorite dumb way. Clear its memory, wait for the segfault.dumb way.
Get fancy, add progress bar: pv < /dev/zero > “/proc/$(pidof vim)/mem”
…you can write to program memory? Idk how exactly but that feels like a security risk.
It’s your process, why shouldn’t you be able to write to it? Vi is certainly doing it…
You do need to be root to do it to arbitrary processes.
ctrl-z
kill %1
holy crap,
that’s exactly what i wanted the last command to do.i just didn’t know you can target jobs,
and settled with quitting the shell instead
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