OpenStars

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Poor dude (gender neutral usage there) has got nothing to lose, no wonder!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

It works in the short term, and that is all that matters. He geared up for an IPO, and the calculations end at that point, everything else is someone else's problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Right but my point is that since some updates have broken their machines in the past, people have (somewhat justifiably) hesitated to update so readily. Imagine a surgeon prepping for the most complex surgery of their life early the next morning and is using the machine to prep... oops, the machine updated, the prep software no longer functions, now they stay up all night trying to fix their machine that wasn't even broken to begin with, and the patient is at more risk than otherwise even if that works was successful. Ok so that's hyperbolic but it relates (with less dire consequences) to so many far more common scenarios, like a teacher and their students all getting ready to go through finals week, but that very month sometime the machine decides it will not wait even a handful of hours until those busy people have a moment to update more risk free (maybe they are even responsible enough to not do their banking and such on it, so that access to their electronic notes is more important to them than some hypothetical risk of leaving a known vulnerability?).

Maybe I am missing something, like if forced updates only occur after years of choosing to delay the update (I left Windows behind years ago, except when forced to at work), but in general my own preference is that the machine should serve me, perhaps presenting me with a strongly worded warning if I do not comply, but the ultimate authority should be me, to decide my own timeframe.

And in case it's not obvious, I am talking about personally maintained machines, not IT staff rolling out an update that they have properly vetted - that really is different, since while the check is external it still does exist, plus such a user does not really "own" that machine to begin with hence literally (read the contracts even) has no "rights" to complain, at least to Microsoft since that would be IT staff that made that choice, right or wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If only all updates were fully backwards compatible it would not be an issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I do not see a but(t) in this picture, it is subtly obscured in shadow.

Goodnight everybody! :-P

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plus the second graph shows the average number of instances went down compared to yesterday, which was itself down further from the day before.

This "wave" is looking mighty sus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

At this point I think I would seriously start to worry about myself if everyone on Reddit agreed with me:-P.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

God creates Man.

Man creates... Unity.

Oops.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

United Sheesh of Americas.

The list can go on as long as you want it to. :-P

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So that's where all those muscle fibers went!! :-P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'd buy that for a dollar!

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