What's going on y'all?

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.

I deleted my windows partition after about 5 months of using Mint daily. Very freeing.
- Welcome to the Dark Side! Mint is a very good choice in disto. I admire the stability, usability, and having just enough wiggle room to let me set things up to my taste. You are going to like Mint!

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

Hopefully a js framework?
- I'm still on the design stage of it, but yes, I do plan for it to be a JS framework.

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

Powerful combo, mastering shortcut keys opens up a whole realm of relaxed posture. Mouse is effective but weak in comparison to efficiency of the keyboard at least when editing text files.
- Yes I'm starting to realise that with layers one need never leave to home row at all.
  
  I haven't even messed with mouse macros, which I'm hopeful will reduce my need to leave the keeb even moreso

I've started bidding on a t60 ibm thinkpad, that'll get arch on it soon

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

still read “unattended updates” as “unintended updates” …
- Windows does both
Firefox kept crashing because of explicit sync. Nothing new for an nvidia user such as myself. Still never going back to xorg.
- Set MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 before starting Firefox and it doesn't crash anymore
- Oh sweet not just me then! Hoping this one gets fixed soon

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

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.
- Bless your heart.

Just another boring day on Linux huh

Time to go to BSD!!
- Someone should create a distro called FreeBSOD
- You can get notified when they make progress on *BSD Derivatives
  
  Guess you chose the right platform to run to,

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 😉

Yeah but 14th Gen Intel CPUs are still failing regardless of your OS.
- Proudly an AMD user for 25 years now :)
- “Intel inside, don’t divide”
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.
- 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.
- Crowdstrike exists for Linux. Are their reports their update affected Linux servers? I have not read that anywhere.
Something similar did happen on Linux clients with CrowdStrike installed not too long ago lol
- Sounds a bit like its a bad idea to install CrowdStrike regardless of the system 🙃
- To those many Linux users who took a look at their circumstances and said "I definitely need antivirus software!"

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

The SAMBA is sounding real quiet today...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/what-is-crowdstrike-outage-explained/104120260

This has happened and taken a bunch of services down around the world.

What a garbage.

Just use Linux, SELinux, strong sandboxing, repositories, nonexecutable home directories, strong access control, offline backups.
- How about a testing environment separate from production
- But how do I integrate everything into Microsoft 365 with that snazzy OneDrive feature? /s
- Crowd strike did this to Linux in April.
- 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
- And log monitoring with off machine collections

Not the official account, but still funny.

I love @Iinux (iinux) on twitter.

It's summer, I'll warm myself by that garbage fire in the winter.