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    submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 86 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    my favourite part is Steam throwing in a symlink, a broken symlink, and a directory of 4 files and 7 more symlinks that all point to a more reasonable point in ~/.local/share/steam/

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Which indirectly led to this wild as fuck bug that nuked some poor user's data.

    https://youtu.be/qzZLvw2AdvM?si=FznMm9CQxD-da9S6

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

    Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

    https://piped.video/qzZLvw2AdvM?si=FznMm9CQxD-da9S6

    Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

    I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

    A YouTube video over an article? :(

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Haha you just reminded me of that damn flashing broken steam sym link in my home folder, it's been there for years and I've yet to investigate or do anything about it.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

    It's there for ancient compatibility reasons and recreated when steam starts, iirc. I've looked a bit into removing it last year but didn't get far

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    lol that's great. Does flatpak Steam do that too? I can't see anything from Steam directly in my home directory, and I use the flatpak version.

    [–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Flatpak itself violates the xdg base dir spec by making ~/.var

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Oh yeah that's true.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Flatpaks can't just access your home directory.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    If you don't give access to it with Flatseal or in the KDE settings app.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Oh yeah that's right

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    Bubblejail solved that for me.