sylver_dragon

This is fun as a parent. Turn on a movie I remember watching as a kid, only to realize my memories were of the version sanitized for network television.

Gotta have that progress bar, otherwise you might be tempted to <Ctrl>-C and you will be left with some of your software problems.

Yes, and you can probably get better performance with different block sizes. This is just what I used to fix drives as it was fast enough and I couldn’t be arsed to do any real testing to find the right speed. Also, my stash of drives was no where near homogeneous, so the right size for one type of drive may not have worked for a different type of drive. I also used the 4MB block size when imaging drives to have an ok-ish speed while not losing too much data if there were read errors.

For a physical machine:
for f in $(lsblk | grep disk | cut -d ' ' -f 1); do sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$f bs=4MB status=progress; done

That will remove all your current software problems. You’ll have new ones, but the old ones will be gone.

Violence is always a bad answer.
Sometimes its the least bad answer of the options available.

Not to worry, they will just go to some sketchy website and download a “free” version of Office and then act all surprised pikachu when Security rolls up to take their laptop.