By its own shareholders?

Are they just trying to get some money out before class actions from its customers decimate the company?

Am on holiday this week - called in to help deal with this shit show :(

It seems to be crowdstrike reacting to the new update.

We have got ours up by the very manual process of:

1 Boot into safe mode.

2. Navigate to C:\windows\system32\drivers\crowdstrike

3. Delete C-00000291*.sys

4. Reboot normally

Because choosing a distro to begin with isn't easy. Ask ten people and you'll get eleven suggestions.

The way I help, as a Sysadmin, is primarily by using foss software in my job and feeding back with bug reports, issues and so on. I've raised several hundred issues on Github this way, and try to do them concisely, accurately and with as much relevant information as I can.

Anyone else find themselves singing this headline to the tune of The House of the Rising Sun?

I think there's a core difference between loot boxes, which is out and out gambling, and gameplay. Both can be addictive, but they have very different consequences.

Gameplay addiction steals your time and maybe your social life, but that's it.

Gambling addiction also steals your money. And when that's gone, drives you to extremes trying to find more.

Ever read some of the microsoft forums? Just as many people seeking help there - the only difference is we don't have an over eager paid employee replying with scripted answers which don't help.

Linux is as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. Most of the mainstream distros "just work" on most hardware. I've installed Mint, Rocky, Ubuntu and Debian on laptops and desktops for relatives, including those who aren't remotely technically gifted. It was as easy/easier as Windows to install, set up and get running. The users are happy - they can use cheaper hardware (and don't need to upgrade a perfectly good laptop for Windows 11) and are entirely free of software costs and subscriptions. Everything works and things don't break - just like Windows and Macs. Most people just want their computer to turn on and let them run stuff. All three do that equally as well.

I've also installed linux on hardware clusters costing hundreds of thousands of pounds and that definitely wasn't a simple or quick process, but that's the nature of the task. Actually, installing the base os was probably the easiest part. Windows just isn't an option for that.

You ask a fair question - you're not unique in your viewpoint and that's probably hampered takeup more than anything else. What makes you a bit better than most is that you actually ask the question and appear to be open to the answers.

That's them dead soon, then.

Here's one that annoyed me this week. Juniper - the enterprise router people - require you to have an account to do their training. That's a web account that won't let you use more than 20 chars in your password, and won't let you paste a password.

Not 2fa, I'll grant you, but it's from the same bucket of dumb insecure shit that you're talking about.

Try it in enterprise where you have automated systems that deploy alert sensors and they instantly go off because each mount is 100% full.

Getting fed up strimming our 4 acre, very steep field.

I looked at remote control mowers. At the time they were all well over £6k, so I thought I'd try building one. Well, I've done it and it works well, but it's taken three years and cost over a grand so far in parts.