Null User Object@lemmy.world to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year ago“Clearly predatory”: Western Digital sparks panic, anger for age-shaming HDDsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down10
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minus-squareLanmanager@lemmy.fmhy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up19·1 year agoThat might backfire on WD. I wonder if people will be posting pics of successive warnings like a trophy. Like sometime posting screenshots of router uptimes.
minus-squareargv_minus_one@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoWhen I see long uptimes, my first and pretty much only thought is of unpatched vulnerabilities.
minus-squareSaik0@lemmy.saik0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year agoEh, depends on the purpose of the device and what it’s running. Many Linux/Unix kernels don’t need reboot to restart services after updates.
minus-squareargv_minus_one@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThey do have to reboot to apply kernel updates, and kernels have their share of vulnerabilities.
minus-squareDoombot1@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoLol, I kinda hope so. I wanna see some of the uptimes people have accumulated! I’ve seen as high as around 100k POH on an old Barracuda.
That might backfire on WD. I wonder if people will be posting pics of successive warnings like a trophy. Like sometime posting screenshots of router uptimes.
When I see long uptimes, my first and pretty much only thought is of unpatched vulnerabilities.
Eh, depends on the purpose of the device and what it’s running. Many Linux/Unix kernels don’t need reboot to restart services after updates.
They do have to reboot to apply kernel updates, and kernels have their share of vulnerabilities.
Lol, I kinda hope so. I wanna see some of the uptimes people have accumulated! I’ve seen as high as around 100k POH on an old Barracuda.