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SoylentNews first reported the vulnerabilities on January 3. Since then, we have had a few stories addressing different reports about these vulnerabilities. Now that it is over two weeks later and we are *still* dealing with reboots, I am curious as to what our community's experience has been.
What steps have you taken, if any, to deal with these reports? Be utterly proactive and install every next thing that comes along? Do a constrained roll out to test a system or two before pushing out to other systems? Wait for the dust to settle before taking any steps?
What providers (system/os/motherboard/chip) have been especially helpful... or non-helpful? How has their response affected your view of that company?
What resources have you been using to check on the status of fixes for your systems? Have you found a site that stands above the others in timeliness and accuracy?
How has this affected your purchasing plans... and your expectations on what you could get for selling your old system? Are you now holding off on purchasing something new?
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday January 19 2018, @02:21PM (3 children)
Used to auto-download Windows updates then had it ask me to install them. Now I don't even want to download an update until they fix the brick AMD issues. I've got an AMD based laptop.
I'll take my chances with being hacked over my laptop being bricked.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 4, Informative) by ElizabethGreene on Friday January 19 2018, @02:39PM (1 child)
>> amd based laptop
Microsoft changed the detection logic for the Spectre/meltdown patch so you won't be offered it if you have one of the machines that may fail to boot after the update.
If you are on Win10 1607, I saw a new release for it yesterday that fixes the AMD issue entirely. It's here.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4057142 [microsoft.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Friday January 19 2018, @07:56PM
It may still fail to boot for normal Windows-related reasons of course.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @07:45PM
The most critical problem you have is Windows. That however is fortunately easily cured.