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I've not broken my setup (yet), but I've came close to it one time when I accidentally made a lesser fork bomb.
I was writting a function that would display how many jobs I currently had in the command prompt, but when writting the function instead of calling
jobs
I called the function itself, sourced .bashrc and now everything was laggy (my pc only has 4GB). Thankfully I was able to shut down the terminal before my swap got completely consumed.