Delta CEO: 'When was the last time you heard of a big outage at Apple?'

[mikece]

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/1/24210680/crowdstrike-microsoft-outage-delta-lawsuit-class-action-damages

[talldayo]

Last week, incidentally: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/26/apples-icloud-private-rela...

[melling → talldayo]

“If you are affected by the ongoing iCloud Private Relay outage, you can temporarily switch off the service by going to Settings > Profile > iCloud > Private Relay.”

Simple enough workaround. I don’t think the two outages are comparable

[talldayo → melling]

This time it was. Other times it's not so simple: https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/15/apple-explains-addresses-mac-...

> I don’t think the two outages are comparable

I don't think comparing a CloudStrike issue with first-party outages is a good idea either, I'm just answering the question in the headline.

[fsflover]

Apple has its own serious problems, too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959

and

https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveil...

[mikece]

Why not more desktop Linux? What apps REQUIRE Windows or macOS anymore (and why not just delivered via desktop/webtop app virtualization)?

[DANmode → mikece]

Depending on your distro of choice: security patch interval.

This brings me no joy to write, just reality.

[tayo42]

> you’ve gotta test this stuff.

So... Who's going to tell him what software is really like?

[melling → tayo42]

Bringing the world to a grinding halt? Hospitals, airlines, etc

I was walking into my doctor’s office and saw computers at the blue screen of death