Originally posted by @strycore in #6506: There are massive issues with AI tech, but those are caused by our current capitalist culture, not the tools themselves. In many ways, it couldn't have been...
“that’s a pretty good deal” is him saying he’s fine with those bugs.
He’s also heavily downplaying the severity of that bug. If a user hit that bug, it would keep copying that AppImage file over and over until it filled their disk and crashed the app. Then the user would have to figure out what happened and where all those duplicates were to fix their system, all while things were falling apart because nothing could write to the disk.
Many systems cannot successfully boot if the disk is full, so those users would probably have to reinstall their system if it crashed or they rebooted, and they didn’t know how to navigate a root shell. Even if the system didn’t crash, many apps won’t start if the disk is full, so the user is just going to have a really bad time overall.
Later in the thread, another user defended the severity of the bug by pointing to other bugs that Lutris has shipped which have damaged their users’ systems.
“that’s a pretty good deal” is him saying he’s fine with those bugs.
He’s also heavily downplaying the severity of that bug. If a user hit that bug, it would keep copying that AppImage file over and over until it filled their disk and crashed the app. Then the user would have to figure out what happened and where all those duplicates were to fix their system, all while things were falling apart because nothing could write to the disk.
Many systems cannot successfully boot if the disk is full, so those users would probably have to reinstall their system if it crashed or they rebooted, and they didn’t know how to navigate a root shell. Even if the system didn’t crash, many apps won’t start if the disk is full, so the user is just going to have a really bad time overall.
Later in the thread, another user defended the severity of the bug by pointing to other bugs that Lutris has shipped which have damaged their users’ systems.