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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As a developer, man do people not realize how brittle modern computing is. It's all built in popsicle sticks and Elmer's glue. One small config or bad file as we see can cripple entire industries.

I do love that windows is still like "something slightly wrong? Might as well crash"

[โ€“] projectsquared 2 points 5 months ago

Someone plugged in a usb stick. Many, many, times apparently!