MangoPenguin

I'm not sure what you mean?

I just don't see how a flip phone is practical, it's thicker in your pocket, way more complex, and very expensive.

the issue is when the OS forcefully installs that update and breaks your system without you doing anything.

The crowdstrike update was pushed out by their own software I thought, not the windows update system?

Plus crowdstrike has caused similar issues with Linux systems before, so the solution is to just not use crowdstrike and similar solutions on any OS.

The issue is not that Windows had a broken update, that can happen and it’s fine, the issue is when the OS forcefully installs that update and breaks your system without you doing anything.

I would have thought most businesses with windows would do staged rollouts.

That's pretty wild, I guess arch is not meant to hold your hand at all so it makes sense.

Windows doesn't in my experience, it's surprisingly robust.

But also I thought Linux distros normally keep the old Kernel around after an update so stuff like this doesn't cause a boot failure?

Gotcha, that's handy.

Honestly just replace the CMOS battery on a schedule if it's a big deal, a UPS is nice to have but it doesn't really solve that specific problem.

Some BIOS manufacturers allow you to disable all halts on errors.

That will be reset to default if the CMOS battery is dead and power is removed though.

Server hardware will reset CMOS if the battery goes dead too.

You're not really at risk of DDOS in that case, I wouldn't worry about it.

One reason may be that they're not actually off when the ignition is off, they're just asleep like your phone is when the screen is off but it's still powered on.

Yeah sounds like snapshots is the way to go!