#Boot Issue Fix

[tim-it]

"Troubleshooting 'No Boot' Issue: Laptop Won't Start? Laptop Won't Boot...

[petrichormore]

Love whenever Bad takes care of an egg that he hasn’t cared for in a while he always says “let me see your armor” and then when they show him he’s always like “what is this garbage. do your parents even love you. like honestly. this is disgusting. take this fully enchanted armor and a million dollars and go get yourself something nice”

[sl33py-g4m3r]

windows/linux rant

unrelated to SMT or anything on my blog currently I guess...

I keep seeing the "prep for windows 11" thing show up on my computer, and it upsets me every time that you have to have a microsoft account to install it.

windows 10 reaches end of support next year~~

I hope by then the computer I"m using will actually let me run linux on it instead of an outdated windows os....

I want to run linux on this machine so bad but whenever I try to install it, it seems to install fine and dandy

and then it won't boot

I've snooped around in the BIOS, disabled the "smart startup" or "secure startup" or whatever else I thought was borking the boot for linux.

but it still won't boot~~~

and sadly i've got games on here that only work on windows anyway.

I'd much rather be able to stay relatively safe online and maintain an OS, than play the games I bought on steam....

something is preventing linux from booting on this machine, it upsets me when I think about it, and it upsets me more when I try to install linux and it goes fine, but then doesn't boot

cause I have to take the time to reinstall windows again.....

why computer? why won't you let linux boot? what do I need to do to you to have linux actually boot? I don't understand...

*confused screaming*

running an ASUS ROG Stryx gaming pc that I bought on impulse years ago. so you'd think linux mint would boot just fine, right??

how do I fix it? if I can fix it? especially if I don't destroy the data on the second hard drive of this thing. I've got stuff I don't want to lose on here, preferably....

[sundaeserenade]

almost broke my new computer, what a day 😌

[hauntingblue]

The episodes at the baratie are good if you ignore the big fucking elephant in the room that is sanji. Which is you know not a thing that can be easily ignored

[hsslilly-blog]

my laptop keyboard stopped working out of nowhere

[fairy-made]

Ive been playing bg3 offline for 2 months bc I refuse to update and have to redo mods. but I finally decided to update today bc there were quite a few new mods I wanted.

anyway why the FUCK are there also updates for skyrim special edition and fallout new vegas on steam??? like bethany esda I am so fucking sick and tired of yall lmao. modders have been fixing shit for years and we're fine now, we've been fine, just leave shit the fuck alone!

[regular-ghosts]

arrived at work, willing to get some work on my paper done, and my laptop just keeps bluescreening someone shoot me in the head

[auroragoth]

yh so yesterday i was like hmmm maybe i'll play ts4 i'm in the mood to try one of the new legacy challenges i've seen going around, and then my computer gave me the blue screen of death all morning 😔

[night-dragon937]

why do i only get motivation at night TwT

cleaning, organizing, cooking, responding to emails/texts/calls, filling out paperwork, doing art or crafts, filming tiktoks- 10am? no chance. 3pm? that's funny but no. 6pm? ehh that's pushing it, probably not. 2am?? fuck yeahh let's get it all done right now!!

i need help and also someone to tell me that the project i want to start working on (will take a minimum of three hours) is a bad idea to start now, at 2am, when i need to get up in like eight hours

[idonutlose]

some overwatch doodles I cleaned up while messing around with brushes

[clementine-png]

Our last flight is in less than 2 hours, since our old flight was cancelled due to weather. So close to seeing my bestie i am very excited

[ardate]

Finally managed to reinstall AE, yipee,,

[aeide-thea]

the joy of maintenance 🧼✨

[freebooter4ever]

Despite the extreme sadness of this game - one thing i love about this team is that it definitely feels like you can trust the coach to know what is and isn't working and see patterns five steps ahead and fix them. Im not saying i approve of all the choices but like. I dunno, im still new to this and i remember being completely flabbergasted that halak was played so much in the beginning when he was losing. Literally. Every. Game. Cause i was only paying attention on a game by game basis. But now? He's been steadily improving and he's been able to hold his own while shesty gets his mojo back. And looking back im sure that was 100% intentional on the coaches part.

[luetta]

idk if people on tumblr know about this but a cybersecurity software called crowdstrike just did what is probably the single biggest fuck up in any sector in the past 10 years. it's monumentally bad. literally the most horror-inducing nightmare scenario for a tech company.

some info, crowdstrike is essentially an antivirus software for enterprises. which means normal laypeople cant really get it, they're for businesses and organisations and important stuff.

so, on a friday evening (it of course wasnt friday everywhere but it was friday evening in oceania which is where it first started causing damage due to europe and na being asleep), crowdstrike pushed out an update to their windows users that caused a bug.

before i get into what the bug is, know that friday evening is the worst possible time to do this because people are going home. the weekend is starting. offices dont have people in them. this is just one of many perfectly placed failures in the rube goldburg machine of crowdstrike. there's a reason friday is called 'dont push to live friday' or more to the point 'dont fuck it up friday'

so, at 3pm at friday, an update comes rolling into crowdstrike users which is automatically implemented. this update immediately causes the computer to blue screen of death. very very bad. but it's not simply a 'you need to restart' crash, because the computer then gets stuck into a boot loop.

this is the worst possible thing because, in a boot loop state, a computer is never really able to get to a point where it can do anything. like download a fix. so there is nothing crowdstrike can do to remedy this death update anymore. it is now left to the end users.

it was pretty quickly identified what the problem was. you had to boot it in safe mode, and a very small file needed to be deleted. or you could just rename crowdstrike to something else so windows never attempts to use it.

it's a fairly easy fix in the grand scheme of things, but the issue is that it is effecting enterprises. which can have a looooot of computers. in many different locations. so an IT person would need to manually fix hundreds of computers, sometimes in whole other cities and perhaps even other countries if theyre big enough.

another fuck up crowdstrike did was they did not stagger the update, so they could catch any mistakes before they wrecked havoc. (and also how how HOW do you not catch this before deploying it. this isn't a code oopsie this is a complete failure of quality ensurance that probably permeates the whole company to not realise their update was an instant kill). they rolled it out to everyone of their clients in the world at the same time.

and this seems pretty hilarious on the surface. i was havin a good chuckle as eftpos went down in the store i was working at, chaos was definitely ensuring lmao. im in aus, and banking was literally down nationwide.

but then you start hearing about the entire country's planes being grounded because the airport's computers are bricked. and hospitals having no computers anymore. emergency call centres crashing. and you realised that, wow. crowdstrike just killed people probably. this is literally the worst thing possible for a company like this to do.

crowdstrike was kinda on the come up too, they were starting to become a big name in the tech world as a new face. but that has definitely vanished now. to fuck up at this many places, is almost extremely impressive. its hard to even think of a comparable fuckup.

a friday evening simultaneous rollout boot loop is a phrase that haunts IT people in their darkest hours. it's the monster that drags people down into the swamp. it's the big bag in the horror movie. it's the end of the road. and for crowdstrike, that reaper of souls just knocked on their doorstep.