this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Throwback to that time when Steam for Linux would sometimes rm -rf /* your computer. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't believe this happened! Now I'm more interested in seeing those memes people posted on the issue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was mostly LTT memes since it happend to him on video

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No that was a bug with the linux package manager when he was trying to install steam, steam wasn't the issue

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are there tools like pusshift for Lemmy already or why can you see a comment I deleted directly after posting it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Doesn't look deleted on my instance

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I never knew this existed. This is amazing and hilarious, thank you for sharing this!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Love it! rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* - what could possibly go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never seen so many comments on a gh issue before

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You should see some threads linked on github-drama, there were >1000 comments when audacity tried to add telemetry.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Remember when it happend to LTT?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yes, do as I say

But this isn't what happened. For Linus, it was a bug with APT that made it uninstall the entire desktop environment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Uh, I didn't know that actually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It did what?! Holy crap, I've never heard of that. Guess I should be less lazy and run a backup more frequently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you uninstalled ROTMG when it first launched, it would delete everything from your disk.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait Sudo?

You guys don't log in with root, and remove the password to make it easier to log on faster? It's a little configuration but definitely worth it for time.

[–] yogsototh 16 points 1 year ago

The morons… Why use a computer if you don’t have full power?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i actually login to root automatically in my bashrc. saves heaps of sudo !!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

It was as if millions of security administrators cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yes, because I totally know what I am doing all the time and I am very aware of running dangerous commands and don't randomly copy and paste them from the internet.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

lol, why did you end it with a blue screen? what will happen is, that all parts of the system, still in memory, will still kinda work and all opened files contents will be available until closed. so the system slowly glitches and becomes unusable. you may see a ton of errors or graphical glitches, depending on what you did. your launcher may become empty and you can't start more apps. all non-builtin commands in your shell won't work and you'll get weird errors that your current dir and your home dir is missing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But how do you turn that into an image?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Print screen. Duhhhhhh. /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good Question. Maybe a job for AI... or Michael Bay 💥 😆

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Last time I tried this, I was faced empty terminal. I felt lonely and lost. Not one command would work. Not pwd, not ls, not even shutdown :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can confirm this is what happens. I only rm relative directories now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

If you get to the last image, you deserve what’s coming

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

reminds me to the time when i wrote this as a joke

for i in $(lsblk | egrep -o '^(sd[a-z]|nvme[0-9]n[0-9])' | sort -u); do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/$i bs=16M & done

it was actually kinda satisfying to run it for real once. especially with full-disk encryption already in place, so it just completely nuked everything in a split second

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Rm -rif / * &

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know this is an age old meme template, but where does it originate from? Any pointers? (no pun intended)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s from American Chopper , a reality TV show about a garage https://youtu.be/3y0bQYDA9Vw

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha, nice. I had a laugh. Unfortunate that they censored this much though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's wild they actually aired that. That argument was the end of their relationship. Paul Jr. sued him over this, won and made his own company, Junior also made a book about his relationship with his father after as well.

They reconciled 5 or so years ago, and worked on a bike together. Which is nice.

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