Today I took an extra swig of idiot juice and deleted my /usr/lib directory in the first 5 minutes of the day.

Well that wasn't a very smart decision, was it :)

@netikras I like to think I'm on the short list for an award of some sort now

I have also discovered safe-rm !

@polaroidkidd Good one! I should adopt this thinking as well :D

Best is the feeling of ultimate stupidity afterwards followed by a scary emptiness in your head...

... I had this, while being in thought, after I hit 'enter' and realized I had typed in (as root): "rm -rf /etc"...

By The Goddess was I relieved that I had /etc backed up using git!

reminds me of that time a co-worker deleted /bin/bash from a production server...

Thanks guys! I'm not alone in my stupidity! There is strength in numbers!

@polaroidkidd
united we fail!

@Yamakuzure isn't that a lot of.... git?

@polaroidkidd well, a lot of text files. I like to keep track of what gets added/removed/changed on updates.
However, the main reason for me to use git there is, that I like to tweak my configs.
And when one of my... erm... not so brilliant ideas wreaks havoc, I can easily roll back.
I have a rather lengthy .gitignore, though. 😋

@Yamakuzure that's a pretty good way to go about it! I think I might try that!