Once in middle school, I wrote a fake format command and added it to autoexec.bat on my moms computer then promptly forgot about it because video games and sugar. Turns out she didn’t turn on her computer until Monday morning while I was at school. Mild mannered me was called to the principals office, expecting the worst. It was my mom on the phone frantically worried that her hard drive had just been nuked. I tell her what I did and she didn’t stop laughing for like 10 minutes. I was still grounded but I was allowed to use the computer or still play video games.

Ahhh the 90s

Niiiice, that reminds me of why I dont pirate Windows disk images any more, theyre all compromised! The “slim” builds with a buncha stuff deleted and also preloaded was nice, but now they just steal crypto.