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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

A QR code created from the actual fault text would be super helpful. That way we can scan it and get the full error message (details and all) on another device without having to snap a picture or something. But not like windows does it, where it's a link to a defunct page. I'm taking about the actual text transcoded into a QR code.

[–] kurumin@linux.community 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And windows shows it for a few seconds, never enough time to pick the phone.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You have to disable auto reboot on bsod

[–] Otherwise_Direction7@monyet.cc 1 points 5 months ago

This should be the default option when the blue screen happened, giving users chance to scan the QR and find out about the causes before they can try restarting their PC

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I believe the main contributor for drm_panic wants to add one eventually. Here's what it might look like:

DRM panic handler panic screenshot https://gitlab.com/kdj0c/panic_report/-/issues/1

Link if you can't scan

Also it looks like the colours are configurable at compile time (with white on black default).

[–] Brickardo@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago

Ah man, I was hoping I'd be rickrolled

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago

This looks EXACTLY as I imagined!

[–] Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of my Windows XP days when I used to customise the hell out of everything I could... custom boot screen... and yes custom BSOD. Which I switched to red 🟥❗ One day my PC RSODs in front of a family member and he said, "Oh shit, that must be really bad if it's red instead of blue!" 😂

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

VMware went with Purple for their hypervisors so you get a PSOD instead. Always was fun when you’d hit the console for a server and get greeted by that instead of the yellow and black split screen.

[–] kenkenken@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is not informative yet, but I like that it's blue. It's a quite recognizable color. Windows made it recognizable by having a lot of BSODs. People are asking why it couldn't be just black, but with non-black BSOD one can recognize it instantly without reading the text.

[–] ylai@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Just for reference, a few years back, (ex-Microsoft) David Plummer had this historical dive into the (MIPS) origin of the blue color, and how Windows is not blue anymore: https://youtu.be/KgqJJECQQH0?t=780

[–] verstra@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

What's DRM in this context? Surely linux kernel doesn't do digital rights management?

[–] jinwk00@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Direct Rendering Manager. Part of Linux kernel to communicate with GPUs.

[–] bishoponarope@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Direct Rendering Manager

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

DRM came before DRM

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Actually there is DRM in the kernel thanks to the HDMI blobs.

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fuck HDMI. The committee makes doing custom hardware near impossible unless you're a mega corp

[–] Xephonian@retrolemmy.com 1 points 5 months ago

It was made by Hollywood for Hollywood.