my desktop died for no apparent reason while web browsing does that count? now when I start it up all the fans spin up real fast and nothing ever comes on the screen

Lost root privileges..on my work computer.

I accidentally deleted one of the keys from my LUKS encrypted drive. It just happened to be the only key I knew. The other key remaining was a 1024 character passphrase I kept stored in a key-file. The key-file was stored on a USB drive I recently lost. Thankfully I found a backup from a few weeks before.

Fucking up kernel compilation/installation is annoying too, but not the end of the world by any means.

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It's for reasons like this that I am reminded that I need some type of backup.

Back when I was first learning to use Linux, I had this unhealthy habit of always doing everything in the root directory and always being logged in as root. Well, this eventually led to the root directory being very cluttered with random files and folders, so I got the genius idea to clean it all up. My plan was to move everything in the root directory to a temporary folder, and then move select folders back into the root directory. I'm sure you can probably figure out what happened after that.

I forgot to unmount my main hard disk after booting from a live linux CD. Corrupted the disk somehow. So fucking sad.

Backed up everything, though, so woo.