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    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 70 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    This doesn't look like a land war in asia.

    [–] exu@feditown.com 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)
    [–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Never going in with a Sicilian when death is on the line?

    [–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)
    [–] superkret@feddit.org 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Never send the Baltic Fleet into battle?

    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)
    [–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

    Pop goes the weasel?

    [–] m_f@midwest.social 59 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You're in good company. Steam even managed to do it for a whole bunch of people:

    https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

    [–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

    I remember this lol, to be fair no one knew how the guy managed todo it, because steam(the launcher) has checks for that, they assume the guy tried to run the steam command instead of clicking the launcher(don't do that)

    [–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Holy... Fuck... That is scary AF!

    and THAT, children, is why I run steam in a jail. Fuck the idea of giving access to my home folder or anything else under my user...

    [–] 8osm3rka@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

    At least you finally cleaned up that Downloads directory

    [–] marcos@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

    Oh, it's been a while that my rm -r * .o taught me about backups.

    [–] python@programming.dev 9 points 9 months ago
    [–] stetech@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)
    [–] exu@feditown.com 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I ran the command without sudo first. It had a bunch of permission errors removing stuff in /tmp. So I retried but with sudo

    [–] superkret@feddit.org 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    /tmp is world-writable. If you get permission-errors, you should become suspicious.
    Also, whenever you write "sudo rm -rf" you should quadruple-check if that's really what you want to do.
    Non-interactively deleting entire directories in root space isn't something you should have to do normally.

    [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    /tmp might be world writable but everything created in there belongs to the respective users.

    [–] superkret@feddit.org 6 points 9 months ago

    TIL. Makes sense, though.

    [–] shoki@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

    Exactly! if a service running under root creates a file, it belongs to root. if that file has permissions that don't allow other users to write (most do), then you can't delete it without sudo afaik

    [–] exu@feditown.com 3 points 9 months ago

    Agreed, I should have been more careful. Fortunately it was just my downloads folder.
    In wanted to clear my /tmp, because I'd run out of space there for extracting an ISO file. It lives on a tmpfs, so space is quite limited.

    [–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 4 points 9 months ago

    oopsies! 😬

    [–] Dagamant@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

    The worst I have done is wipe out my home directory. Backups are good, I was able to copy everything back and it was like it never happened

    [–] chicagohuman@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

    I'm tired of my Downloads folder filling up, so I usually have a startup script that empties it. This has actually been really helpful!

    Make it a habit!

    [–] scrion@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago
    [–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Didn't get, you removed everything from the /tmp folder?

    [–] mundane@feddit.nu 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    There is a wild card * that will remove everything in the current directory (and remove /tmp too)

    [–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

    Oh, so he deleted his download folder, not that bad I guess