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What I meant when I said reinstall the PCs was to reinstall the critical computers necessary for operation of medical machinery to make basic and still mostly manual/paper based op…

You misunderstood me, I am easily convinced that this is the case - what I don't get is how they could let it be the case.

I talked to people in charge of the operations on a daily basis for years. I really don't think these considerations have changed that much since my times of leadership of an entir…

It's pretty obvious they meant the material possessions. Isn't it in guidelines to look for the more charitable options?

Yes, they wouldn't be considered doing the Linux stuff in a professional capacity.

Things haven't changed in IT so much. I am not in ICT management anymore, but I write software for the modern enterprise systems and networks - I'm reasonably up to date. Ad medici…

They are people. They are entitled to everything every other human is entitled to. Including being idiots.

Are they trying to help any cause other than their own? Also - don't generalize based on nationality, please. These behave like this, others behave differently. This changes nothin…

You're free to donate money to Ukraine yourself. They didn't ask to be born there or to be in that situation. I live in a country with hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees j…

It's not like your bank account immediately stops working when you cross the border. There are people who had successful careers finding themselves in this situation, is their stor…

I expect the local admins to be able to install a fresh OS not connected to the enterprise network. And I expect them to have physical copies of stuff like disk encryption keys, al…

If it's stuck in a boot loop, the first thing I do is call the local admins and tell them to take a fresh SSD and a Windows installation USB drive with them. Plug the new SSD, rein…

I have trouble accepting that. Even if they had to unplug the computer from the network and disable SSO and antivirus in safe mode, it's possible to get the computer operational. E…

What if it turns out they harmed the patient by insisting on following the standard procedure during a worldwide outage? Isn't that the same kind of liability risk, and is the regu…

So the problem really isn't CrowdStrike or any computer at all, but dumb policy or regulation?

If it requires a computer, why was that operationally critical computer not restored from a backup within hours after the problem started? This has nothing to do with CrowdStrike o…

I really, sincerely don't understand that. How does an unscannable barcode prevent a doctor/nurse from administering medicine they are holding in their hands?

I have managed IT departments that managed hundreds of locations and thousands of computers running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, no cloud at all. And I went through several …

Presumably they would fix these computers first thing during the night from a backup? If not, is this really about CrowdStrike, and not about a hospital unable to keep their absolu…

I get that, my point is, why is it absolutely necessary to use the computer system? Why don't they just knock on the door, go grab the medicine and tools, apply it, then fill it in…

While I appreciate the effect this kind of downtime can have, I just don't understand these stories. Presumably it was planned in advance, so the patients know the time of their ap…

The bad person is the one who decided to lock and downsize public toilets. All the arguments about taxes are about money for public good that market can't solve, well where is it?

As I said, it's obviously not zero issues with Apple either. But this particular issue is an exception imho, my own experience and everyone with a Mac around me is saying the batte…

It has a simple reason, any other device is much worse. All my Lenovo laptop batteries died in 2 years, meanwhile my MacBook from 2015 still gets 3 hours of battery life. That one …

So the solution is to combine them?