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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 91 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

[–] lemminer@lemmy.world 19 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.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] rbits@lemmy.fmhy.ml 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

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 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?

[–] rbits@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Doesn't look deleted on my instance

[–] octalfudge@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] IUsedTo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Remember when it happend to LTT?

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 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.

[–] IUsedTo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Uh, I didn't know that actually.

[–] MavTheHack@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] SnowFoxx@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Chadus_Maximus@lemmy.zip 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.

[–] Kinglink@lemmy.world 43 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@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] teft@lemmy.world 22 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.

[–] theFibonacciEffect@feddit.de -1 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.

[–] zosu@vlemmy.net 23 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.

[–] average650@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But how do you turn that into an image?

[–] teft@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Print screen. Duhhhhhh. /s

[–] zosu@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

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

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 :(

[–] qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] z2k_@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] b3nsn0w@pricefield.org 5 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

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago
[–] jcb2016@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Rm -rif / * &

[–] churisotophu@feddit.de 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)

[–] AshLassay@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] churisotophu@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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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