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[–] ninjabard@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)

"Translated by Grok." Cool, now I know to avoid that website.

[–] lordgreylock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Exactly what I was thinking.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

Using grok today should be enough reason to be sent to prison, unless it's for purposes of showing how db and evil Elmo is

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 17 points 1 day ago

Translated by Mecha-Hitler

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 3 points 15 hours ago

So glad I ditched windows, looks like it was just in time.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks to be region specific and occurs on specific controllers under heavy writes (50gb+). Symptoms clear after a reboot.

[–] tomcatt360@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thanks for the context. The headline makes a mountain out of a mole hill.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

50GB of write is pretty easy to get to. That is a single game download. (and remember, it unpacks at the same time, a 50GB download is more like 125GB of total write)

So, if you own an affected drive, gotta be really fucking careful using Steam on Windows.

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But it gives the religious cult a chance to knock on your door and ask if you've heard of their lord and saviour, Linus.

[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

I’d like to know more about Linus Rap Tips though

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 30 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I sure hope nobody recommends me to use a free and open source operating system that never has issues like this over this proprietary OS that I'm used too and have been paying licensing fees for since I started using computers.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Linux has had its fair share of nasty bugs

The difference is that you are unlikely to be affected unless you are running a very recent untested kernel.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

I live dangerously with my fully up to date Arch box.

But I also have an LTS Ubuntu box that's been humming away in the background for about the last five-ish years? Just a quiet little file server, doing its job and being ignored.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 day ago

Because you got older and realized just because your teachers and parents wasted their money now that you're an adult there a better way?

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

free and open source operating system that never has issues like this

ever use BTRFS?

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I've only recently been made aware of btrfs' tendency to completely fuck data at failure states.

I've been using that filesystem on fedora for maybe two years now without issue, though I suppose I don't regularly find myself hitting the issues required to cause these problems.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 4 points 20 hours ago

Well yeah, like the article I linked says:

It has now been nearly eight years since the "experimental" tag was removed, but many of btrfs' age-old problems remain unaddressed and effectively unchanged. So, we'll repeat this once more: as a single-disk filesystem, btrfs has been stable and for the most part performant for years. But the deeper you get into the new features btrfs offers, the shakier the ground you walk on—that's what we're focusing on today.

So if you're just using it for your PC hard drive you're probably fine. The problem is that BTRFS is intended to provide similar features to RAID and ZFS, but that's where it starts failing.

[–] tim@infosec.pub 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More 24H2 shittery. I locked all my Windows machines to the 23H2 track after installing it on my desktop completely broke all networking functionality.

[–] rdri@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

At my workplace 23H2 specifically causes most of unbootable situations where bootloader has to be repaired in some way or another.

[–] tim@infosec.pub 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Strange. I've had zero issues out of 23H2 and I update it religiously.

[–] rdri@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Same here with updates but it might be caused by use case and hardware. E.g. most of users use laptops and a lot of them have vPro functionality. Exact source of the issue is not identified but these two are best candidates in my opinion. If you are using a basic home PC then none of it affects you.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 11 points 1 day ago

Incredible, glad my hardware was arbitrarily incompatible

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago