[tetha]

Weirdly enough, I have thought about this and to a degree, this can be interpreted as normalization of deviancy and normalization of danger.

Like, yes, I am a console jockey and prefer working in shells with a tiling window manager, keyboard only control and such. I will however always shutdown my workstation with the mouse (or trackball rather) through some UI of the desktop manager, or a desktop manager specific way.

Otherwise, I am normalizing the use of sla-dangerous commands like "shutdown". It takes that little bit of fear and respect out of those commands if you use them daily for no good reason or if better choices exist. Like, don't turn your alarm off by cutting it's wire and re-soldering it later.

And similar, if I need to reboot production systems, I'll much rather reach to some control interface of the virtualization, or use something like ansible to dry-run these dangerous tasks first.

Or it terrifies me how care-free some people are with "sudo rm -rf". I've caused myself so much pain with rm. "sudo -u app-user rm -rf" is right there, or even better, "sudo -u app-user find -name foo -print > stuff; cat stuff" and later some "xargs -i rm < stuff" and "xargs -v rm < stuff". Yes it takes a minute more to do, but it prevents ... accidents.