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A theme is software and software has bugs. While this one had a pretty dramatic effect, you take basically the same risk with every program you run. This, along with hardware and user errors are why backups are so important; they change a disaster to an inconvenience.
/ Preach mode off
A windows device just wiped the hardware settings of a periphery device, because it got an update and the new lighting settings wanted to control the LEDs in that device. All gone
Click bait
The Gray Layout installation script ran the
rm -rfcommand, which normally removes all files from the deviceTranslation difficulties, or does the author really think that’s what it’s normally used for?
I wonder what the sudo rm -rf equivalent for windows is
Microsoft thinks it’s uninstalling Edge.
I wonder how much would break, and how much time it would take to update everything, if all shells decided to implement a breaking change to prevent these kind of scenarios. E.g. make “set -u” default or some other solution
Hetken jo ajattelin, että mitä hiivatin noituutta nämä Suomeksi olevat konekääntäjän tekstit ovat olevinaan.
Trust but verify. It was a text file, it doesn’t get much easier to do the second step of that.
… in which case you would have seen that they delete a path referenced by an env var being set earlier.
How likely do you think it would have been to notice, that this env var will turn up empty in your specific case?
A theme that deleted anything would have been enough of a red flag.
SIDPlay did something similar on the Mac.
It has the neat built-in feature of rsyncing the high voltage SID collection to your computer.
However, if you deleted your local copy of it and tried to re-sync it’d update (with deletes) against
/instead. Bye bye files.wiped clean?
It is windows users that pretend to be linux user.
They are root.
