Not getting much by Googling.

If not, what’s the ETA?

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    • there are currently two (?) fixes
      • “You memorized your BitLocker key, right?” – physical access to the computer to boot into safe mode, delete a file, and reboot
      • “Thoughts and prayers” – let the computer keep rebooting until it manages (somehow) to grab the fix in the lag or delays between reboots
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      Everyone in my very large company shares the same bitlocker key for some reason. I guess for today is the reason

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      There’s a third one I’ve heard:

      • Intel VPro (the thing that privacy people disable because runs at a lower level than the OS and does mysterious stuff), is being used to remove the broken file while the OS is booting/crashed.
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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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        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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    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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    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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    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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    Yeah we good. The fix was ezpz and even a company with several thousand servers should be up now. End user workstations may take more effort, but it’s a 5 min fix per user.

    Honestly this was half as stressful as Print Nightmare was, from an IT perspective.

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      It’s funny. I didn’t have a lot of issues with our company. Three machines, one server. I deleted the bad update on three. When I got to the fourth, it was already fixed because the user just restarted his machine many times.

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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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    Yes it should be fixed. I currently am using the WIFI of JBHUNT who relies on NWA airport and its working fine… I got a vpn and it kind of seems that other countries are doing good. The last I have seen is that the last holdout is China.