While true and they have a point...
With having to do a restart after installing major programs the headline sounded like it's from a satire site for an article about NSA snooping.
Like, they just did an update and now we all need to reboot lol
I completely thought it was an Onion headline.
I mean this has been a cybersecurity best practice forever. If anything, it's someone at the NSA having a chuckle knowing how the cynics will react to something which is barely a step above common sense.
"have you tried swtching it off and on again" solves 90% of support requests - at least for a little while ;-)
It solves virtually none of them, it is pretty good at destroying all the evidence needed to actually fix the problem for good though.
I don't have 40 hours to dedicate to a single error message that pops up only on Tuesdays during a full moon and Jeff just needs to print his stupid report.
bingo!
I hate when a restart fixes it. It means it will never be fixed.
we are not talking about backend systems here.
we are talking about user devices in the wild, likely in an unknown state, with highly variable usage patterns by the user. someone with experience can usually determine how deeply to poke based on 30 seconds of questioning the user.
"reboot" is absolutely valid when the issue is trivial, non-recurring and the equipment is not sensitive. if a reboot destroys logs then the device was not important to you to begin with.
Are you a doctor? Coz living beings is the only case I can think of where this is true.
well clearly there must be someone at that evil organization with a soul then
That or their root kit requires a manual reboot to start working.
they don't even need to put shit directly on our devices to get what they want really, they have a wiretap into all the advertising companies and all the internet providers and all the cellphone and land line providers. They have a wiretap into every remotely accessible camera system. They don't need to come up with more invasive ways to get into all our shit but they keep doing it.
It's so blatantly unconstitutional, and yet they keep renewing the programs. We're never getting our constitutional right to privacy back without extreme measures.
It’s so blatantly unconstitutional,
Careful, someone called me a fascist for saying that about this issue.
That person doesn't know what they're talking about.
I was once called a "right winger" and a "trump supporter" over on reddit because I talked about how awesome self-governing local communities would be.
Who better to decide what happens in a town than the people who actually live there?
There's paid trolls and bots that muddy the waters about everything.
You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
wait, you guys don't switch it off during the night?
It has my morning alarm, so, no.
wait, your phone doesn't switch on to ring alarms? i thought all smartphones do that. all androud phones i have do. they don't do a full boot, just sound an alarm and show options to fully start, snooze or end the alarm
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I learned that some brands don't implement that feature. For example: Samsung does not, but Honor does.
I have never heard of that feature. If I turn my phone off before going to bed, it's because I want it to not ring the alarm at the usual time. Telling it to turn off makes it do a complete shutdown. What you're describing would require some sort of hibernate mode.
it's not like hybernate on a PC. it's more like the circuits in the phone (probably the BIOS) still have the clock running when off and know the time when to boot into that special mode. my newer phone even has a checkbox "keep alarm active" on that shutdown screen where you confirm the shutdown.
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