Alt text: A line plot with 2 axis (confidence vs competence) referencing the Dunning-Kruger effect with various distro logos placed at different points on the line. Starts with mint/ubuntu near (0,0) and progressing through multiple distros to end up with opensuse/fedora at what it calls “the plateau of sustainability”
If you delete
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/*you can brick your motherboard. If it doesn’t have a recovery mode of some kind then it will be permanently bricked.https://www.phoronix.com/news/UEFI-rm-root-directory
Edit: most modern hardware comes with protections against this nowadays though