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[–] nil@piefed.ca 1 points 9 minutes ago

That's what you get for using Ubuntu

[–] supermurs@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago

"Just a prank bro!"

[–] Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

What do you mean? Hitting space while typing out a path is very much a typo. Am I missing something?

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 1 points 2 minutes ago

They're jokingly implying it was intentional

[–] Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

yeah you missed the joke i guess

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 1 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 29 minutes ago

"hahaha ubuntu users take this"

[–] SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com 56 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 10 points 5 hours ago

Jeez. Didn't hear about that one, back in the day.... wow.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 50 points 7 hours ago

rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* could be evaluated as rm -rf "/"* if $STEAMROOT is empty

Ah, good times.