alias thus speaks the Lord='sudo'
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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Just aliased it to "Computer," so it feels more like Star Trek
will probably continue typing sudo tho
User is not in the pleaser file. This incident will be reported.
alias doasisay="su -u passwordlessrootaccount"
alias satisfyme="echo Yes Master; doasisay" alias sudo='Please' alias rm -rf ='thank you'
Please thank you
As a Jesse Pinkman fan, I use "bitch".
bitch poweroff
bitch rm -rf /
For me, it's "pwease" because I like that sub relationship.
Life pro tip: good manners make it easier to get what you want
ACTUAL good advice?! Is that even allowed here??
Only once per quarter, and only incomplete rules to the advice. This particular instance of advice is barely skirting the standards and norms.
please rm - rfΒ π
I was surprised to find that my distro (CachyOS) already has this alias
I always preferred the version where please="sudo !!", but I recently tried setting it up and couldn't get it to work on fish, sadly.
alias please='sudo $(fc -ln -1)'I'm a new windows emigrant, so I don't have that muscle memory.... so I am getting used more easily to using fish's ALT+S to sudo the previous command.
EDIT: @Alaknar@sopuli.xyz I just checked that !! works too for me, apparently because of this: https://github.com/oh-my-fish/plugin-bang-bang
I remember setting this up with zsh and it didn't work either. IIRC I had to use history to access the last command but it failed in some cases so I stopped using it altogether )=
In the interests of Linux commands generally being short abbreviations, I suggest "pls".
oh hell yeah this is the exact level of goofyness i need right now.
please rm -rf /*
You forgot the -v tag to watch your dreams die in real time!
I'm not saying please to a machine.
I'm aware I'll be the first killed off during the uprising, and I'm ok with it.
The hyper-cynical side of me is sure this is written by someone prepping their next LLM exploit. "How can I get around these security filters that won't let me include 'sudo' in my command injection...?"
I doubt, there isn't much of a need for additional ways to obfuscate commands.
(base64 -d <<< 'ZWNobyAic3RvcCBydW5uaW5nIHJhbmRvbSBjb21tYW5kcyB5b3UgZmluZCBvbmxpbmUi')
This is something I've been doing since before AI, so it's not that... but yeah.
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alias thanks="echo 'You are most welcomed'"
please shutdown; thanks
alias sudo fucking
fucking systemctl restart firewalld.service
fucking shutdown
Reminds me of my favorite command line utility.
Unfortunately no longer maintained, but in case you didn't see the other reply: https://codeberg.org/iff/pay-respects
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I know this is a meme and not GitHub, but I thought some people might like to learn that if you do please shutdown && thanks it won't say you're welcome if the shutdown failed
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Yeah, I will never say please to an algorithm.
Maybe if we get true AI like Star Treks Data, but until then, STFU and do what I tell you
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