The more popular your software is, the more likely you'll get bug reports from people with just bad hardware. I know a few applications now that perform a simple memory/CPU test when sending a bug report and reject those that are basically impossible.
replyE.g.: 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252971
Firefox was the only program that was crashing on my "Vmin Shift Instability" bugged CPU. Before I even knew what the culprit was, I filed a bug report with Firefox and the first question they asked me was if my CPU was a Raptor Lake (it was).
replyThis is right. There's a reason people squat domain names that differ from well-known ones by a single bit flip. Think of how many old, shitty phones there are in the world, built using the cheapest available components and running in someone's crumb-filled, humid pocket right next to their magnetic key fob thing.
replyThere's tons of marginal hardware out there, and game developers sometimes push hardware pretty hard and may run early drivers, etc.
replyAs the old saying goes, an untested backup is a non backup.
replyThey said as much in their intro.
replyDue to a rare defect in our software, sometimes the zip is corrupted.
We blame the user for not backing up, or backing up corrupted files.
That is when I stopped reading.