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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink20•2 years 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•2 years agoWhen I see long uptimes, my first and pretty much only thought is of unpatched vulnerabilities.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 years agoThey do have to reboot to apply kernel updates, and kernels have their share of vulnerabilities.
minus-squarebaduhailinkfedilink1•2 years agoIt’s entirely possible to update the kernel without rebooting.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years 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.
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They do have to reboot to apply kernel updates, and kernels have their share of vulnerabilities.
It’s entirely possible to update the kernel without rebooting.
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.