07-22-2024, 01:05 AM
I'm not personally familiar with Chromebook. I think of it as a "thin client," dependent on Google web services. In general, I deeply dislike being strictly dependent on one intermediary service like that, although of course, we're all at least dependent on our ISP for much of what we do.
In my case, my own desktop PC is kind of the central component of my home news, TV, radio, DVD playback, CD playback, bill paying, pizza ordering, Amazon ordering, picture album, music folder, email system, not to mention QB64 software writing, so it kind of needs to be more than a thin client.
I got news of this CrowdStrike issue pretty much as soon as it happened, in real time. Given that the news came through my desktop PC, connected to the above-mentioned system, I was pretty sure all was okay. But I did do the safe boot business, just to be sure that there wasn't this one offending file to get rid of.
In my case, my own desktop PC is kind of the central component of my home news, TV, radio, DVD playback, CD playback, bill paying, pizza ordering, Amazon ordering, picture album, music folder, email system, not to mention QB64 software writing, so it kind of needs to be more than a thin client.
I got news of this CrowdStrike issue pretty much as soon as it happened, in real time. Given that the news came through my desktop PC, connected to the above-mentioned system, I was pretty sure all was okay. But I did do the safe boot business, just to be sure that there wasn't this one offending file to get rid of.