Hi there
I work as a sysadmin for an insurance company and I’ve remarked that there’s been more than usually Memory Dimms failing in our server farm.
Also, this morning my Wii Joystick has ceased to communicate with the station before I could get my daily dose of Wii Fit.
Are these just coincidences or is something actually burning electronics? Is it just where I live or more global?
Is there a sloar storm? Is it the 5G antennas increasing their activity? The Chinese pre-programmed failures in order to sell us new Dimms with embedded 5Gsnitch that’d send them the data that goes through?
Any idea?
Edit: the Wii works again. Thanks God, I hate throwing devices I’ve had less than 13 years. Might have been something with the surrounding magnetic waves...
No issues with the PS4. Just sayin'. :)
So a guy named Penisse is playing with his Wii.
You can't make this shit up folks. ???
Penisse, Penisdo ???
Making no assumptions about the brand / quality of the servers in your farm, but they do have a higher failure rate after 4 years or so due to thermal cycling and cracking.
Earlier / more frequent if they're chicom manufactured, and more likely to have impurities in the solder or misaligned chips.
There's also a global shortage in semiconductors now and has been for over a year, memory supply has been constrained for almost two years. They're cranking them out as fast as possible to meet demand, so QC is suffering.
Microsoft has been having crazy server issues all week. Teams was down world wide on Monday. SMTP relays are hit or miss right now. The o365 admin console was down yesterday. AD sync stopped running for 24 hours on Tuesday for hybrid environments. Shit's crazy and our users are not happy but there's nothing our IT department can do.
MS deployed a major patch and schema upgrade to Azure AD this week, realized it was FUBAR, and rolled back. Nothing supernatural, just boneheaded. Combine that with upwards of 50% of the on-prem exchange servers being at-risk or having been popped by the Hafnium 0days and you've got a pretty big storm.
Still nowhere near the WannaCry / NotPetya disruptions a couple years ago or Conficker / RAMPART YANKEE back in the day, it's just more normies sensitized to the 2nd and 3rd-order effects and our dependency on cloud services that makes it seem anomalous.
Don't forget about the exchange hack!!
u/Doggos stickied a post Wednesday or yesterday on TDW about some .win updates. There was some scattered disruption but NBD.
Youtube bounced me several times for seemingly no reason at the same time the Hulu on the living room TV cut out. I assumed it was an ISP issue.
Guess will see.
My chrome book got attacked and died out of nowhere!