Munkisquisher

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[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do they bill you $40,000 for that diagnosis? Could be a new source of revenue for discount airlines

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 2 points 11 months ago

I work in an environment where the workstations aren't on the Internet there's a separate network, there's still a need for antivirus and we were hit with bsod yesterday

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 22 points 11 months ago (4 children)

A remote server that you pay some serious money to that pushes a garbage driver that prevents yours from booting

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 33 points 11 months ago

Oh yes I make those failures myself, testing and staging and limited release schedules save my human failures from breaking the world

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dammit, hit us at 5pm on Friday in NZ

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And people need to travel to remote machines to do this in person

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 18 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Yeah saw that several steel mills have been bricked by this, that's months and millions to restart

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 53 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Won't take that long, security researchers are already decompiling the update to see if it was malicious or incompetence.

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 2 points 11 months ago

That's how it works in NZ, you can request anything, but the govt can also charge you the costs of collating that data beyond a certain point

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Usable where you would otherwise use a raspberry pi? How does it compare in computation?

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except people 3 years into that wait are already getting called up for their turn. A lot of people are declining to take it up

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

For engineering equipment it's often impossible to deal with the manufacturer. Your purchasing, training, calibration and trouble shooting has to be done by local resellers who do all this. It can be a huge pain in the ass and just slows everything down unless you get a rare reseller that really knows their shit.

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