- 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.
- Wait for a sufficiently powerful coronal mass ejection to collapse the global electric grid
Open vim.
Accept vim is the OS now.
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
Shiftfast enough after typing the colon…
Was going to say this, myself.
There’s a whole repo of possible methods: https://github.com/hakluke/how-to-exit-vim
ZZ will save file though, the others won’t. You meant ZQ.
:!echo “reisub” | sudo tee -a /proc/sysrq-trigger
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.
you can close vim?
“this is my life now”
ctrl-S instinctively from windows then panic when the terminal pauses and isnt accepting input so you restart the computer.
Fuck, are you me?
Does unplugging the machine not work?
I call my local energy provider and simply cancel my contract with immediate effect.
try…
:x
it will save your changes and exit vim If there are no changes to the then it just exits vim.
- Ctrl + T + alt
- sudo reboot
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Good bot
til shift-z shift-z. am I stupid
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
