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Apparently lots of Mac users crowing about how the Crowdstrike Stuff doesn't affect them rn.
Must admit I've not heard any.
Although that's probably because I don't have the right £90 set of headphones with a custom headphone jack or summat.
@garius
the apple gateway that relays all the Mac users' proprietary and closed messages to the rest of us runs Windows and is secured by Crowdstrike so.... whoops 
@garius As a Mac user I find that snide remark rude and accurate, how dare you sir
@garius It's clear that none of them are responsible for buying groceries.
what's 'Crowdstrike '?
@garius John chose violence this afternoon/morning, I see. 
@garius all good until they try to use anything hosted on the "cloud" on a windows server at which point the futility comes around and whomps them in the face anyway :D
@garius my linux desktop at work is up and running!
...and can access nothing because everything else is broken
@garius oh come on, that's not fair, my MacBooks manage to work correctly with... at least 2 of the 4 USB mice I've tried with them, and... uh... none of the wireless mice (all of which work fine with my Linux machines).
(And, yes, holy shit, at least some of the audio devices which didn't previously work have started to work with more recent OSes, but...)
@fistfulofdave @garius yay! You must buy higher quality devices than I do.
@garius it doesn’t, but it could in principle as crowdstrike is also available for Mac and Linux. Though less prevalent I assume and different code
@cloudthethings @garius I was once working with some consultants, they had some similar software (cannot remember the vendor) and they all were complaining that it made their MacBooks super slow.
@garius a friend works for a company that uses all Mac workstations. Dead in the water this morning... Their "as a service" application they use to communicate with customers was down.
Another acquaintance has a mixed set of employee gear. All dead because they can't authenticate with the domain server.
Plenty of useless Macs this morning.