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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by cratermoon on Monday October 24, 2022 @10:11AM (#33316868)
Automatic updates to address real issues and security risks are fine, unless you're talking about updates that can't be postponed if you're in the middle of something.

What we see, of course, is exactly what the twitter thread posted mentions: some "dickweasel" hijacked the update system to push crapware or do something user-hostile for purposes completely unrelated to what the user would want.

James Williams discusses this in his book "Stand Out Of Our Light", and likens it to a GPS that takes you off to places that you never wanted to visit in the course of (maybe) getting you to your intended destination. Of course, you arrive late, if ever, and burned way more gas (or battery) than you needed. But the GPS got you to drive by a specific set of billboards that they wanted you to see.

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by omgmajk on Monday October 24, 2022 @03:41PM (#33321495)
In my situation, I was doing GPU intensive work that took about two weeks to complete and got hit with an automatic reboot overnight at some point far into the run. It hit me again overnight while I hadn't saved something, which is my own fault, but it still bugged me. I update my system when I need to update it, but I don't like that it happens without my consent and that there is no way to turn it off.
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