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It’s too dark. I can’t watch it on my crappy TV

I would not disagree.

Every person I know with a PhD now in their 40s and 50s (7 people) doesn’t have a family and wished they did and didn’t have a PhD. I’d love to see a study on that.

I’m never bothered because it looked like too much effort for little money.

I'm not sure why because Ryanair looks really good on the scrapers. I bet it drives a lot of business their way.

That is of course until you add all the additional charges.

Forwarded to crowdstrike.

YT influencers can publish their sources and data.

Corporates have learned not to say anything about stuff because it turns into YT influencer fuel rather than rational analysis.

Yeah this. Make sure you provision lots of memcache chunk caches as well because S3 is slow as shit.

The chipset doesn't deliver power. So this is wrong. It has less PCI lanes and that's about it. I don't need them so I didn't buy them :)

I don't think there's a lot in it to be honest between vendors. They are all cheap garbage with lurid ass chunks of metal and artwork designed by a 5 year old stuck all over them.

And there's one thing you can NEVER trust and that is objectivity from gamers when looking at failure and reliability statistics. It's one huge cargo cult.

Notably my kids both have Ryzen 5600G + MSI B550 boards with no problems.

Yes unfortunately. When you buy "enthusiast boards" which is everything that Dell and HP etc don't ship these days then you have literally no idea what crappy BIOS and software configuration you are inheriting.

The warning in this case is hire security people who actually have a clue and include vendor software in their risk assessment.

Literally every time I see stuff like this go down, the security software had exactly zero engineering research put into it whereas everything else did.

If people did this, CrowdStrike would either not exist or look completely different.

Tried an MSI B550 initially. Think the second one was an Asus B550. The CPU swap did work ok the original board!

But at that point I was using the Lenovo box. So I just sold all the crap on eBay for the next victim.

Yeah this is still second hand information though and there isn’t any data still. There may be confounding factors.

Lots of speculation that is all.

Someone (at intel) needs to get an incident management process around this and start doing some proper comms.

I would never buy an AMD machine again after my last Ryzen 3600X. So many issues. It had to be power cycled 2-3 times to get it to boot. Memory corruption issues and stability issues galore. Not overclocked. Stock configuration. Decent quality board and power supply. Just hell.

Swapped board out assuming it was that. Same problem. Turned out to be the CPU which was a pain in the ass getting a warranty replacement for.

Ended up buying a new open box Intel 12400 Lenovo lump off eBay and using that.

I hear a lot of anecdotes and noise from YouTubers around this but little to no actual data or analysis. I am a skeptic until I see concrete data. That covers both the mobile and desktop issues.

Observations so far are limited to:

I have seen actual evidence that some W680 boards have been shipping with an unlimited power profile which will toast a CPU fairly quickly. As to who’s fault that is and if this correlates or is casual to the rest of the reports I don’t know.

My own Asus B760M board shipped with an unlimited power profile. I had to switch it to “Intel Default”. This machine has been under heavy load with no issues so far.

When I have done research I have only found people reporting this on custom build systems or low balling “servers”. I haven’t found any viable big brand system failure reports yet (Dell/HP/Lenovo etc). While some of this might be statistical failures I’d like to see configuration eliminated from the data as a cause first.

I think it would be rather nice at this point if Intel produced their own desktop boards again with their own tested BIOS. So we have something viable to compare against a reference system rather than the usual ugly junk shifter outfits or big brands. A fully vertically integrated component PC would be a nice thing to have again. They just worked!

Yep. It hides itself from lsmod and the sysadmins on Linux as well.

No they don’t. Most barely understand what they are proposing or the risks associated with the mechanisms being introduced.

Windows has DTrace and eBPF available. They chose not to use it.

Well now we know those agencies are either morons or in on something we don’t know about.

Ah that was me. We don’t accept “content updates” and they are staged.

We got this update pushed right through.

Yep.

Looking at how this whole thing is pasted together, there's probably a regex engine in one of those sys files somewhere that was doing the "parsing"...

I don’t think I’ve ever searched for anything in either of those. I usually google what I want and look for reviews, mostly ending up on Reddit. Then I search for that app on the store.

This is the same with the Play Store and windows store. And physical stores.

Never go into a shop unless you know what you need otherwise you’ll come out with something you don’t need.

I Would also like to add:

“Any security product which has a rootkit, remote command and control and egresses data is indistinguishable from malware”.

Oh wow. They really did fuck up Wayland.

If it isn't a hardware independent issue, they really fucked up Wayland.

It doesn't work properly on Intel or AMD either. It just sucks worse on NVidia.

Yep. Some of the garbage I've seen out there is shocking. It scares me.

Then I try and get fractional scaling working on Wayland with my NVidia card and want to gouge my eyes out with frustration that after a decade I still can't do what I can do on a closed source thing that came free with my computer. Actually make that 25 years now. The enterprise crap while horrible, actually mostly does work reasonably well. Sometimes I feel dirty about this.

Quality is therefore relative to the consumer. The attention is on what the engineers care about with Linux, not the users I find. Where there's an impedance mismatch there are a lot of unhappy users.

This is not about product quality.

This is marketoid head-shitting influencers selling garbage to people who have no idea what the fuck they are doing other that compliance box ticking to cover their paranoid vendor induced psychosis. They have no idea about threat modelling, no idea about how an operating system even works. Using the CIA triad, they traded off AVAILABILITY entirely, CONFIDENTIALITY partially by sending every fart a system makes to some cloud company for some false sense of INTEGRITY that the vendor does not even guarantee. In fact I've found fuck all evidence that the product actually does anything at all in a correctly layered security architecture.

This is the diametric opposite of a security proposition. A house of cards built on lies and incompetence. Literally this product is the definition of malware. It egresses data you have no control over. It has built in remote command and control that can take you out. And it runs completely arbitrary code in ring 0 (clearly written by a blind monkey)

I called this ENTIRE thing in March 2023 as a critical business risk and the above people steamrolled it. Literally I have the objections recorded and I'm going to use it at this point to steamroll them the fuck back.

It doesn't matter if it's made of shit if people buy it. It happens to be made of shit though.

I am done with this now. I am so fucking done.

I think they learned it from Freedesktop developers.