Windows update borked GRUB again.

oh, I got so fed up with Window's updates screwing with the grub, I finally put each on their own hard drive with a slew of buttons to choose which drive I was going to boot in to. Since then, I worked out that windows has no need for updates if it is air-gapped from the internet, and has worked perfectly for the last 10 years.

I suppose separating things to different drives is indeed the way to go... When moving what I need from two PCs, one Linux, one Windows, onto one new dual boot laptop, I was lucky enough to have two SSD slots and so I could separate the two OSes. After I heard that the 25H2 Win 11 upgrade deleted a Linux partition somewhere, I decided to remove the Linux SSD before starting the upgrade just to be safe. But Redmond was faster; the upgrade was kicked off in the background before I did. But it left the Linux drive alone; the Laptop even continued to boot into grub...

Or some passing lowlife/drunk spotted the protruding USB stick the screen boots from and half-inched it...

I had Windows update bork Windows the other week.

I dual boot server and 11... (the 11 is being replaced but I occasionally need to boot back in to it)... a windows update cheerfully 'removed' the server startup option menu and put the graphical one from Windows 11 back in there for me. Oh, and set Win 11 to the default again.

Cheers MS.

Much less distracting than a Windows boot loop or that creepy BSOD with the inappropriate sad face.

"They've 'fixed' it by turning off the screen."

Glad that the ads were turned off [sigh of relieve]. We need more of these fixes on those ad walls. Please, all of you readers here, do your best fixing by "turning off the screen" , where ever you can.

Well it showing errors and if you can’t see then they don’t exist……

They're actually really useful, tells you the time, next two or three stops, service name (trust me, pre coffee brain fog at 6 AM it's sometimes necessary) and, as far as I remember, they generally only advertise their own service (so far)

they generally only advertise their own service

famous...last...words...

Yeah, I'm sure they'll catch on (and I may have to work out how to bork them) but for now at least, they're fairly clean

One of those humungous LED advertising sites near here was stuck on a Debian login prompt for about a fortnight. Unfortunately, at the side of a dual carriageway (and thoroughly distracting - they ought to be banned) so couldn't get a decent picture of it, though a passenger did try.

M.

That kind of signage is banned here, except if on the land where your business is operating. And there are still restrictions. Except some counsils give themselves exceptions. I very much hate animation that will distract. Anywhere.

Speed 2. Had to look it up. Worst movie ever. Saw the first 15mins, and the next day I think someone sent it overboard.

Seems like you're walking the rest of the way. Stuck at rescue prompt means dbus won't even start, and even if other services are running, there's no way to make connections.

The obvious xkcd is surely https://xkcd.com/705/

I disagree. Problem isn't the bus. It's a driver issue.

We're stuck with the old driver, might be a bit "finicky" but works on this old bucket. The new one crashed the test rig and, er, "didn't certify live" or something like that. Anyway, didn't HR say you can't blacklist a driver due to age. I never understood what they'd know about it in the first place, it's bloody wokeness gone mad!

> They've 'fixed' it by turning off the screen

And the reduction in stress is almost instant.

In BNE we have a few new fully electric buses fitted with large screens that display the progress of bus along it's route giving the passenger adequate warning of the upcoming stop in order to press the stop request button.

All brilliant until it loses its GPS positioning or whatever and falls back to the (clearly pommie) vendor's demonstration display which starts in Chadwell Heath and progresses to St Georges Hospital which with a little google·fu appears to be the Dagnum 173 route [UK.]

The locals are just a little bemused or amused.

Just before Christmas I was in this bus on which a middle aged French tourist couple had just boarded to return to their host; they had used the outbound (correct) display to navigate and were intending to do the same on the return leg.

After the first few 173 UK stops the pair were in a blind panic and at the next stop went to ask the driver to determine were going. The driver was a fairly new arrival from outside the anglophone (and also apparently the francophone) world so they didn't get much joy there. Madame spoke and understood English somewhat better than Monsieur so I managed to convince her they were on the right bus and the stop after the next was theirs. I am fairly certain they didn't believe me that the incorrect display on an Australian bus was of a UK bus route. I should have said the bus was made in the UK - infinitely more credible.

And Duck Duck Go tells me that BNE is the 3 letter code for Brisbane airport, which does appear to be in West Island.

Ahem, I think you'll find the 173 bus goes to Dagenham... not Dagnum. (Is Dagnum possibly a derogatory term for a not very useful integer in Aussie speak?)

Possibly a display width limitation.

"I should have said the bus was made in the UK - infinitely more credible"

Well, actually, the bodywork may have been made in the UK, but the rolling chassis was probably made in China, like the current London buses.

However, as in all unpaid, public or social scenarios, I tell people I'm an accountant because nothing spoils a party faster or wastes more time than being introduced as an IT expert.

Try being introduced as someone who charges for IT advice. That might help.