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catte_salad clone (da_667)

@rkbw @mhoye Yeah, see, thats a place where its an unintuitive mess because Microsoft is fucking awful.

But generally speaking, bluescreens have error codes that will at least point you in a general direction for search engine troubleshooting. Additionally the event viewer has become a fallback of mine. Look for Critical failures, Errors, followed by warnings.

Again, I fully acknowledge that it sucks and is unintuitive and fully agree that improvements would be effin' great.

1 Nov 2023 at 15:14 | Wall-to-wall | Open on infosec.exchange
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DasMammut

@da_667 @mhoye When e.g. Windows updates failed I *never* have been able to learn something useful from the error code - if one was given at all 🤯

1 Nov 2023 at 15:18 | Open on rollenspiel.social
catte_salad clone (da_667)

@rkbw l Well, I've been there before and I have found results from failed windows updates that lead to solutions. But just as well I've had labyrinthine, serial problems with some Linux-based software stacks/applications/software updates where, you have no indication that anything is wrong, right up until you get random crashdumps while the program is running. I'm not arguing against better error messages and documentation.

But anecdotal experiences are anecdotal experiences. What if I told you that I haven't had a blue screen of death in over 7 years across two major Windows operating systems?

@rkbw l Well, I've been there before and I have found results from failed windows updates that lead to solutions. But just as well I've had labyrinthine, serial problems with some Linux-based software stacks/applications/software updates where, you have no indication that anything is wrong, right up until you get random crashdumps while the program is running. I'm not arguing against better error messages and documentation.

1 Nov 2023 at 15:23 | Open on infosec.exchange
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