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Re:The Web We Want by JadeNB on Friday June 10, 2016 @08:23PM (#11881252)
> updates are particularly troublesome with Windows 10.

A happy discovery: marking a particular wi-fi network as 'metered' (the obvious thing to do, right?) will prevent automatic downloads of updates over that network.

Re:The Web We Want by jrapdx3 on Saturday June 11, 2016 @12:51AM (#11882132)
Thanks for your observation! I'll have to try it.

I'm assuming having to check manually for updates but that's not a big burden. Hopefully no inadvertent "side-effects" from running as a metered connection.