“Ein Wort” - what’s the issue?

If you have no idea how long it may take and if the issue will return - and particularly if upper management has no idea - swapping to alternate solutions may seem like a safer bet. Non-Tech people tend to treat computers with superstition, so “this software has produced an issue once” can quickly become “I don’t trust anything using this - what if it happens again? We can’t risk another outage!”

The tech fix may be easy, but the manglement issue can be harder. I probably don’t need to tell you about the type of obstinate manager that’s scared of things they don’t understand and need a nice slideshow with simple words and pretty pictures to explain why this one-off issue is fixed now and probably won’t happen again.

As for the question of scale: From a quick glance we currently have something on the order of 40k “active” Office installations, which mostly map to active devices. Our client management semi-recently finished rolling out a new, uniform client configuration standard across the organisation (“special” cases aside). If we’d had CrowdStrike, I’d conservatively estimate that to be at least 30k affected devices.

Thankfully, we don’t, but I know some amounts of bullets were being sweated until it was confirmed to only be CrowdStrike. We’re in Central Europe, so the window between the first issues and the confirmation was the prime “people starting work” time.

…and just how many PCs do you intend to “reboot into safemode delete one bad file and then reboot again”? Manually, or do you have some remote access tool that doesn’t require a running system?

Having seen Excel used creatively, I think it’s an exaggeration. It would make collaboration entirely impossible. I assume they have several smaller ones, with more or less - but not exactly - the same layout as it has been adapted for new use cases, and the only way to transfer records from one to the other is to manually copy and paste the info to the relevant cells, but mind the order you do it in and double check, or the Frankenstein’s Macro running half the logic will crash.

I think it’s time to expand the Clown-Empire and add ClownSocialServices.lol and ClownFlare to its Vassals.
What do we call the head of state? The Witish Clown?

Accessible through my corporate network. Fun thing, that.

…provided it runs on CrowdStrike-protected systems. I would expect the site’s operator to make sure to avoid that if they can help it.

But what would it even change? The businesses would no longer be able to make an explicit agreement, probably have to pay a fine, but can they be forced to advertise or will they just proceed to coincidentally all decide not to advertise without explicitly colluding?

In my experience, the shelf helps avoid having water splash your nethers, which happens to me more often than leaving streaks, so I prefer it over having my urine splash back up at me.

To be fair, seeing a complex equation simplify down to a concise result is kinda hot 😳

…then you use the brush to clean them? Is that a big deal?

The broker handling our apartment on the owner’s behalf told us the owner was opposed to pets, but couldn’t legally prohibit us from getting an indoor cat with a wink and the previous tenants had one too. Apparently she didn’t kick up a fuss - unlike the neighbour, who must be very happy to live in an area where I know of at least five different cats in the vicinity, given that she deeply hates cats.

What else can you do on the gallows but laugh?

I’m in your boat often enough. Sometimes a post assumes familiarity with a context and it may be hard to figure out the intent or sincerity without that familiarity.

That is a reasonable proposition. Have you considered, however, that those are the people that make the money off it? I’m not too confident they’d do something about them until they become a competitor to an even bigger fish.

It’s not projection, just regular hypocrisy. Almost boring, these days.

I mean, yeah, this is one of those cases where you think the plot is obvious, but also, that’s a great setup for a plot twist, so you gotta watch it to be sure.

I’m so glad today’s youth is still playing Bingo

…and the red bar indicates you (or whoever originally made that meme) started watching it.

For sure. There are many kinds of toxicity. Toxic gasses may affect you differently than inhaling silica dust, biological neurotoxins or rigid gender norms.