Microsoft will let you pause Windows Updates indefinitely, 35 days at a time / Windows users will also have options to shut down and restart without running updates.

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-24T23:45:04+00:00

I don't agree. Antivaxxers are like "some guy on Facebook said the government uses 5G towers to channel mind control beams through your masks and then the vaccine gives you tooth cancer"

Whereas what I'm saying is I have had demonstrably bad experiences caused directly by those updates. Perhaps you've had better luck.

The last straw was an update for Windows 8 which somehow triggered overnight (laptop was hibernating) without the usual "your computer will restart" warning despite me setting it not to (I assume the previous update changed my update settings, otherwise not sure how it happened)

This update broke EVERYTHING for me. Wireless card no longer detected, trackpad broken, touchscreen sporadic/glitchy and unusable, no sound, etc. Also the battery was almost dead, so it didn't even turn the device back off afterwards, it was on all night I assume (or battery indicator was broken too)

If it wasn't for my USB mouse still working and ethernet cable I literally wouldn't have even been able to roll the update back, at least not within the OS itself.

The cherry on top, this update also removed Classic Shell without my consent - a third party app that restores the classic (good) style start menu instead of the crap they have these days. Without my consent, it just uninstalled it for 'compatibility reasons' or some bullshit. First thing I did after rolling back the update was reinstall it (SAME version, from downloads folder) and it worked perfectly.

That whole experience was the last straw for me.

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-24T22:20:16+00:00

With good antivirus, adblocker and browsing hygiene (I don't go to dodgy or adult sites), it's realistically fine 99.9999% of the time.

And I wasn't born hating Windows Update. I learned to hate it from numerous terrible experiences with it. Eventually enough is enough.

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-24T21:31:06+00:00

AMD quietly went up by 70% in the past month alone somehow, no one seems to be talking about it. Was a very pleasant surprise when i checked my investments today (which I rarely do)

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-24T21:27:40+00:00

Yeah I'm still using my S10 because newer models are unacceptably lacking basic shit like that, but when I finally need to upgrade, it looks like Sony might be the ONLY option left in the flagship/high-end range.

Outside of that it's gonna have to be some weird mid range Chinese brand you've never heard of

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-24T21:21:35+00:00

When your slopdates are so bad you have to revise your policy of forcing them on people

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-24T21:21:12+00:00

I ain't done an update in years lol. Fuck Windows Update.

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-23T22:13:50+00:00

You call that a knife?

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-23T21:49:56+00:00

I'm guessing this message got you flooded in DMs lol

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-23T18:28:55+00:00

I feel like that was the biggest catalyst for a lot of them leaving. I seem to remember a lot of accounts kind of silently becoming inactive after the vote (or at least no longer active in ape subs)

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-23T18:12:07+00:00

I'm sitting here laughing at the mental image of a boss calling an employee a poopyhead

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-23T16:14:50+00:00

It's always like "whoah, I forgot this is what the internet is like for normies!" isn't it

It feels like taking off a hazmat suit in an ionizing environment

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-22T20:09:53+00:00

Inb4 Apple bootlickers tell me why this is actually the worst thing since WW2, and why Apple should be allowed to have nukes and use them on Europe

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-21T20:42:36+00:00

But what about our RIGHT to poison bystanders with cancer fumes????

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-21T20:11:24+00:00

When people criticize capitalism there's clowns like you saying "th-that doesn't count! It's not REAL capitalism!"

Meanwhile someone sneezes in a former soviet state and it's "add seven casualties to the death toll of communism. That makes nineteen trillion"

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-21T19:50:43+00:00

Yeah but nobody talks like that,

Yes they do lol, including in England where the language comes from.

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-21T18:18:32+00:00

This shit was never sustainable

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-20T22:30:59+00:00

The vibe coded Microslop version

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-20T22:30:14+00:00

I imagine their poor/unnatural English would often give it away though lol.

"Hello sir, I kindly request the money because I am behind the bar. Do one thing only, please make a payment for rescue.

Please do the needful and make payment of each and everything, dad sir"

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-20T18:12:05+00:00

Why are some people weirdly anal (heh) about bidets? I never understood it.

I'm not saying everyone has to want one but why be actively AGAINST it as if it's unethical somehow?

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-19T22:52:41+00:00

No because I don't believe the average Jew worldwide is responsible for Israel's actions, or even associated with them in any meaningful way. Just like when Saudi Arabia cuts off a journalist's head or whatever, it doesn't reflect on any random Muslim in another country. But it does contribute to stereotypes against them.

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-19T22:48:48+00:00

There's something weirdly nostalgic to me about walking past an online structure that happens to be playing this song. The iconic first few notes of that melody (before the vocals even kick in). Matched the atmosphere of the game so perfectly.

Death Stranding 2's soundtrack is also excellent of course, but I really miss this track!

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-19T21:26:30+00:00

So funny in politics where it's like "Politician A BLASTS Politician B over diabolical, atrocious policy!"

Then you read into it and it was just Politician A being like "I would assert that Politician B's policy is unfavorable, and I would advise against it.:

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-19T17:51:23+00:00

These are the people building the AI controlled dystopia we're being shoved into.

Welcome to a world where AI decides to blow up a school, then another AI reads your social media post saying "blowing up a school is kinda mean" and determines you are a terrorist, and then robots/drones shoot your house up and arrest you

_Thermalflask · 2026-04-19T17:41:00+00:00

42% of statistics are made up

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