Throwback to that time when Steam for Linux would sometimes rm -rf /* your computer. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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I can't believe this happened! Now I'm more interested in seeing those memes people posted on the issue.
I never knew this existed. This is amazing and hilarious, thank you for sharing this!
Love it! rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* - what could possibly go wrong?
I've never seen so many comments on a gh issue before
You should see some threads linked on github-drama, there were >1000 comments when audacity tried to add telemetry.
Remember when it happend to LTT?
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.
Uh, I didn't know that actually.
Classic!
It did what?! Holy crap, I've never heard of that. Guess I should be less lazy and run a backup more frequently.
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.
The moronsβ¦ Why use a computer if you donβt have full power?
i actually login to root automatically in my bashrc. saves heaps of sudo !!
It was as if millions of security administrators cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
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.
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.
But how do you turn that into an image?
Print screen. Duhhhhhh. /s
Good Question. Maybe a job for AI... or Michael Bay π₯ π
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 :(
I can confirm this is what happens. I only rm relative directories now.
If you get to the last image, you deserve whatβs coming
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
amazing
Rm -rif / * &
I know this is an age old meme template, but where does it originate from? Any pointers? (no pun intended)
Itβs from American Chopper , a reality TV show about a garage https://youtu.be/3y0bQYDA9Vw
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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