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Re:Windows 10 begins one-year countdown to end of support by trashface on Monday October 14, 2024 @11:39PM (#41844686)
The latter problem can be (partially) addressed by setting your network interface to metered mode. Then you get some control over updates.
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Re:Windows 10 begins one-year countdown to end of support by snarbles on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @03:13PM (#41852066)
My laptop (Win10 home) installed updates over metered connections (and actively combated my efforts to disable the update service, take ownership of the service, etc.). Ultimately the fix was to install Ubuntu.
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Re:Windows 10 begins one-year countdown to end of support by neuralRiot on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @04:35PM (#41863578)
Group policy editor allows you to select what type of updates you want (if any), if you want them to be downloaded/ installed automatically or just notify.
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Re:Windows 10 begins one-year countdown to end of support by snarbles on Thursday October 17, 2024 @03:55PM (#41873155)
>Win10 Home

If you're running a version of windows that includes group policy editor, it does. Given the way windows 10+ disregards if not outright changes settings, I wouldn't exactly bet my life or my PC on it anyways.

My specific point, at any rate, was that Windows does not respect settings regarding metered connection.

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Re:Windows 10 begins one-year countdown to end of support by neuralRiot on Thursday October 17, 2024 @04:49PM (#41873628)
You can enable GPE or even install it if not available in your Win home edition. I’m not trying to argue, just dropping the info so everybody knows.
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