Windows XP holds a special place in many retro gaming enthusiasts' hearts, serving as the perfect platform for experiencing games from the late 1990s and early 2000s. While most users opt for hardware of the era to ensure maximum compatibility with XP's drivers, there's something intriguing about running this classic operating system on more modern hardware.
A while ago, a client I work for decided after a lot of discussions to finally drop support for IE11. Hurray!
Later, they decided to a show a nice page with an explanation to anyone who might still be using IE11 and encourage them to download a more modern browser.
But because we dropped support a while ago, we didn't test in IE11 anymore, and so any page we tried to load didn't work. Trying to make the pages work would be a waste of time, because in time they might stop working again.
So we decided to redirect all IE11 users to a simple static page.
Let's say you are following a guide on the internet and it provides a command for installing a package.
sudo apt install package
Without a second thought, you copy the command and quickly paste it in your terminal. Now imagine there was a different command in your clipboard, like this one:
sudo rm -rf /*do not actually run this command!
This command forcefully and recursively deletes all your files and folders starting from the root directory. If you paste text containing a newline character in your terminal, it will automatically be executed. If your terminal has elevated permissions, because you already executed a sudo command in the same session, it will not ask for your password.