• bitjunkie@lemmy.world
    15·
    3 hours ago

    This entire thread is giving me flashbacks to my junior dev days and forgetting a where clause when updating/deleting database records

    • Buckshot@programming.dev
      5·
      1 hour ago

      We’ve all done that at some point.

      That sinking feeling when your quick update doesn’t return immediately.

      Good to get into the habit of wrapping your queries in a begin transaction/rollback until you verify the result 😁

      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
        3·
        43 minutes ago

        I was never able to fully form the habit with transactions. The guardrails I use are writing the where clause first and keeping my query tool in read-only mode for prod connections and only disabling it once I’m sure I need to make a change.

      • nil@piefed.caEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Ubuntu tries to become (or is already) the de facto standard. That is what assholes do.

          • nil@piefed.caEnglish
            2·
            3 hours ago

            Honestly, I meant it for a joke, but people started taking it seriously, I don’t know where to end this.

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 hours ago

              Hmm alright. I too dislike some things about Ubuntu but on the other hand you cannot blame people (myself included) who either have tried other distros and had support issues and came back to Ubuntu based, or those who just want the easier route to begin with. Ubuntu-based seems to be a good compromise for many. I’ve also used arch and fedora and had more headaches and breakages on those. Also I literally have a laptop that gets supported on Ubuntu so it makes life easier all around. Fuck some of the things canonical does but I just do not want to spend time with things like fixing my wifi connection after running pacman -S install or whatever that command is.

              • nil@piefed.caEnglish
                1·
                1 hour ago

                Yeah, but I think forks of Ubuntu such as Mint or Zorin deserves more recognition as first Linux distro. Choosing Ubuntu just because everyone else is using just feels very wrong.

                I too got tired of using those niche distros and once settled on Solus (but now using NixOS for some reason).

                • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  1 hour ago

                  Well imo, on lemmy anyhow, they do get a million times more recognition. Everyone is in the cult of Mint, which is one of the few I tried briefly and actively did not like it.

      • sbeak@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        14·
        4 hours ago

        Ubuntu is owned by Canonical, and they have been making some decisions that a lot of people in the community don’t like, most notably, the enforcement of snaps (in a nutshell, the repos are proprietary and centralised), but they have been involved in various other corpo shenanigans as well

        But I don’t think “X distro is bad, don’t use it” is very useful unless it is dangerous or harmful to the user.

        Ubuntu (or the various other buntus) work for some people, and without them, far fewer people would use Linux. The benefit of Linux is the amount of choice you get and being able to easily switch between distros (you can even dual boot if you want!)

        So if you like Mint, stick with that. If somebody prefers the buntus, it’s great as long as they are respectful to others!

        Distro wars are stupid

      • MrKoyun@lemmy.world
        8·
        5 hours ago

        It’s not really bad. It’s just kinda distasteful due to stuff like Snap packages and Canonical’s position of privacy as a company. But it isn’t really a bad distro if you ignore that stuff. If it works it works.

      • nil@piefed.caEnglish
        7·
        5 hours ago

        Ubuntu kinda forces you to use snap (which sucks), and is owned by Canonical.

        Neither of them apply to Linux Mint, so nice choice.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      95·
      14 hours ago

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

      Ah, good times.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        14·
        6 hours ago

        Probably a good idea to enable the nounset shell option when shipping commercial-grade install scripts. 😅

        • fruitcantfly@programming.dev
          1·
          31 minutes ago

          That really ought to have been the default behavior. Opting out only takes one or two extra characters. Well, four if you don’t habitually bracket your variable names, which you should probably be doing anyways