or be boring and alias sl=ls
Someone installed this across our 2500 machine entire fleet back in 2013. I wanted to fucking punch him in the dick, especially during incidents where every second matters.
The point is to make you slow down. Going fast and breaking things worse is not good during an incident.
If you typed
sland actually pressed enter before confirming what you typed, you deserve what you gotOof. Were they found and removed from the org?
Nah it was a pretty immature company at the time, just told not to do shit like that anymore.
Once we ipo’d and put on big boy pants, that would have been at least a reprimand.
So I installed this way back in the day on my prod corporate VMs. I was still green, and any prod issues would shake me so much, it was too stressful.
I taught myself to relax when the locomotive pops up, take a few deep breaths and go on.
It was super effective. I learned to not get so flustered, and stopped messing commands due to adrenaline. I no longer install it anywhere, but it still puts a smile and a wave of nostalgia when I see or hear about it.
Such a small thing, yet it helped me grow so much.
Installing SL is part of my standard cloud-init config.
don’t forget to install gti
sl | lolcatI would get slightly amused every time I typed “lust” instead of “list” as a kid in applesoft basic.
Does anyone know the “prank” repo that would delete Linux system (or Windows) when an wrong typo ran?
alias l="ls", I’m immune to this problemOr
ll='ls -laFh'to have it just how I like it
Lately for me it’s been “ks”
Ah yes. When you need to slow the fuck down.
