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How A Steam Bug Deleted Someone’s Entire PC (iv.datura.network)
submitted 1 year ago by Dehydrated@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This could have been an article

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

Yeah, I'm sitting next to someone and I don't loudly watch YouTube next to others. Guess I'll never know how Steam did it. ¯\(ツ)/¯

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I was in bed next to my sleeping partner and under a cat. Guess I'll I've in ignorance

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Deleted entire computer

[–] Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is old news that happened a few years ago from what I remember.

Bug has since been fixed.

[–] HotPurplePeach@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ok, thanks for the info. I started freaking out :D

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Horrible horrible clickbait image - immediate downvote

[–] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not clickbait. The Linux version of Steam consisted of a binary, as well as a script called steam.sh which could be used to launch Steam. There actually was a line in that script with a comment above it saying # Scary!. The script was not supposed to rm -rf the entire hard drive, but if something went wrong, exactly that happened.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't say the content was, the image itself is clickbaity.

[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 12 points 1 year ago

Well, it's not if it's the actual code Steam shipped with on thumbnail.