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    [–] [email protected] 123 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Na, nothing. Did an update today. Nothing bad happened at al, Because why would it?

    [–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    still read “unattended updates” as “unintended updates” …

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    It doesn't. It will require you to reboot for every god-damned line of code that has changed.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

    Only when you actually want it to reboot on its own

    When you don't want that, need it to wait for some reason, that's when it remembers how to reboot on its own

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Firefox kept crashing because of explicit sync. Nothing new for an nvidia user such as myself. Still never going back to xorg.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Oh sweet not just me then! Hoping this one gets fixed soon

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    [–] Late2TheParty 73 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    God, I love Read-only Friday where nothing bad ever happens before the weekend.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Speak for yourself. I am preparing for a high school camp on Monday and all our sound system isn't working. Stupid proprietary crappy sound boards.

    [–] jaybone 8 points 5 months ago

    Bless your heart.

    [–] NegativeLookBehind 68 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Just another boring day on Linux huh

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)
    [–] jaybone 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Someone should create a distro called FreeBSOD

    [–] veganpizza69 6 points 5 months ago
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    [–] TrickDacy 52 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I've found it funny how many people think they need to defend windows by saying " this could've happened to Linux too!!"

    Okay, sure. Yeah you're right about Linux being just as insecure as windows too 😉

    [–] PainInTheAES 55 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Something similar did happen on Linux clients with CrowdStrike installed not too long ago lol

    [–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Sounds a bit like its a bad idea to install CrowdStrike regardless of the system 🙃

    [–] jaybone 19 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    lol yeah that’s a glowing review.

    “Oh, we can fuck other shit up too!”

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    [–] TrickDacy 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    To those many Linux users who took a look at their circumstances and said "I definitely need antivirus software!"

    [–] PainInTheAES 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    CrowdStrike does more than anti-virus and yes enterprise Linux installations need a lot of security controls that average Linux users don't need.

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    [–] proton_lynx 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I think people are missing the point here. The biggest problem was not that the update was bricking the machines, that could've happened to Linux/macOS/BSD etc. The problem is that the solution to the problem is to MANUALLY access the machine, get into safe mode and type some commands. This is insane. And you should be able to EASILY disable automatic updates for apps like that on Windows Server.

    [–] Buddahriffic 8 points 5 months ago

    I dunno, I'd say them deploying an update that bricked machines at the scale they did shows they didn't test it very well at smaller scales. They could have even still used their users as beta testers, just needed to do a subset of them first.

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    [–] Psythik 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah but 14th Gen Intel CPUs are still failing regardless of your OS.

    [–] TrickDacy 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Proudly an AMD user for 25 years now :)

    [–] veni_vedi_veni 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)
    [–] Psythik 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Nobody but the most hardcore AMD enthusiasts used Bulldozer. The 2010s was a tough decade for AMD, to say the least. It wasn't until AM5 came out that I finally switched back to Team Red. Got too used to LGA sockets.

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    [–] jj4211 33 points 5 months ago

    Nothing much, just getting far fewer client emails for some reason...

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

    The SAMBA is sounding real quiet today...

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    What a garbage.

    Just use Linux, SELinux, strong sandboxing, repositories, nonexecutable home directories, strong access control, offline backups.

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    How about a testing environment separate from production

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)
    [–] NegativeLookBehind 18 points 5 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I watched a ocean of computers go dead on the floor because I couldn't convince the sysadmin to do exactly that when pushing a major change.

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

    Best I can do is push it worldwide on a Friday morning

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    But how do I integrate everything into Microsoft 365 with that snazzy OneDrive feature? /s

    [–] jaybone 4 points 5 months ago

    You will escort us to sector zero zero one.

    [–] WordBox 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Crowd strike did this to Linux in April.

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    [–] Xanvial 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    Pretty sure it's happened in Linux before, but because it's much less users, obviously it won't have same global outage like what happens now

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    [–] renrenPDX 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I’ve been driving Linux as my main for just about a month now and I didn’t think anything of it until I booted into Windows and had to deal with forced updates. Almost Done? JFC.

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    [–] Presi300 15 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Designing my own UI framework from scratch, not much really...

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

    Not the official account, but still funny.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Just kind of pondering my key combinations in tmux, vim, etc. I've started using "layers" and "combo keys" in my keyboard layout and it's really showing me what's possible

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