How ChatGPT Politely Helped Me Wipe My Hard Drive
Like many bad tech stories, this one starts with:
* an aging laptop
* an encrypted Ubuntu install
* and the sentence: “How hard can fixing GRUB really be?”
My setup was pretty standard Linux nerd fare:
* One 500GB HDD using LUKS → LVM → ext4
* Encrypted root volume
* UEFI boot
* A live USB handy