Not getting much by Googling.

If not, what’s the ETA?

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I can’t help but think most of the servers have been solved. The fix is a pain in the ass but it’s not like it’s monumentally difficult. Anything that’s in a server room with a remote access controller should be pretty straightforward.

Kiosks, workstations, desktops are probably all going to happen in priority order. If somebody needs to run around with a key and unlock a door they’re probably just going to replace the storage. And they’re probably also waiting on that to happen in contract speed.

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It’s really up to the individual organizations to fix. There’s not going to be some global “congrats, we pushed and update and now everything is fine” patch, because the crash is preventing a patch from being loaded. It requires manual intervention on every single affected machine. If it’s a large organization with a lean IT team, that could mean days or weeks until every single machine is actually fixed; They’ll be prioritizing the mission-critical systems, so they’ll triage. Start with the wide reaching systems, then the most important employees. The intern will just have to wait.

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No, still a shit show at airports at the time of writing.

Lots of kiosks, screens, and other devices still show BSODs in airports. Systems still slow and unstable.

Likely similar in other industries.

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Ugh. I fly home in a week. Hope it’s not horrible by then.

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It’s ok, it was just Windows machines. Nobody in their right mind would run anything critical on a Windows machine.

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Omg… I hate Microsoft and windows as much as the next guy but for the last time this isn’t a windows problem ffs. Read any of the thousands of articles published on the matter and you’ll find that this theoretically could just as easily happen to Linux machines if they were managed by Crowdstrike - which is the problem.

This never ending Linux elitism on Lemmy is making me tired, boss

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Best part is something similar happened with certain Linux distros a few months back.

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I don’t know if I could have made it more obvious that what I said was a joke. But also, it was a Windows problem in that it only affected Windows machines, and that was the premise of my joke (which is why I phrased it that way).

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There have been so many folks ranting about Linux being the solution that it’s apparently difficult for me to detect sarcasm, but yes, fair enough

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At my primary day job, no, they’ve already announced weekend hours to all employees to resolve issues one by one. I feel for IT/Helpdesk.

At two of my friends day jobs, yes. Everything was fixed by late afternoon.

At another friend’s day job, no, and things aren’t looking great as their disaster recovery plans, staffing, etc. were not prepared for this. It’s sounding like it could extend into next week for them.

For another friend of mine…he got turned away at Starbucks this morning because their computers weren’t working. I guess we’ll see if he gets turned away tomorrow? Haha.

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