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Re:Ubuntu Snap update spoiled my World Cup Final by forrestthewoods on Sunday December 18, 2022 @05:35PM (#34044588)
> I think the more important thing here is that the very idea that something should update itself is so incredibly insanely broken and I cannot for the life of me understand why it's the norm.

Eek hard disagree.

Most things I want to auto-update. Preferably at 4am. Somethings I want to disable auto-update.

What I never want is things to update when I’m in the middle of something.

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Re:Ubuntu Snap update spoiled my World Cup Final by antiframe on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:12PM (#34045286)
It sounds like you want to control a policy of when things should update. For example Firefox every 4am, Kernel when you say so, Python 2.6 never, etc. I understand "something should update itself" to mean that the user doesn't get to set the policy, it does.
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Re:Ubuntu Snap update spoiled my World Cup Final by ezfe on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:14PM (#34045313)
macOS never interrupts the user, for example. Even if you click the install button, if you (X) out of the "restarting" notification it won't restart/install the update.
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