Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
by SteveNuts on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:52PM
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This is like bragging about not wearing a seatbelt because "I haven't flown through the windshield yet"
Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
by thot_experiment on Sunday December 18, 2022 @08:42PM
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I've flown through the windshield a couple times in my life WRT malware.
I've lost so much more time to work computers where I'm forced to use retail Win 10/11 and have to deal with intrusive update policies than I have due to malware.
Having to nuke a few computers from orbit once a decade is a small price to pay for having systems that I can trust to work the same as they did yesterday, systems that never interrupt my flow.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
by pigsty on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:48AM
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Or it’s like driving a reliable Toyota with a proven safety record vs not wanting to pay for some new vehicle with a seatbelt subscription and updates that brick your car randomly or blare ads at max volume while driving down the interstate.
I’ve lost more work to forced updates resetting my computer randomly and making operation less stable than I ever have to malware (the latter being never in my adult life).
p.s.: Nope, no viruses or things like that. Windows 7 is so old that it's not supported by botnets anymore.