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[–] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Disabled Windows Update and have never been happier.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At that point please just use another OS. You should be keeping your OS up to date.

[–] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Number of times I've been hacked: 0

Number of hours I've wasted reinstalling everything because Microsoft bricked my Windows install with a faulty update: 6.022140857×10^23^

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, we live in wild times. Remember when the largest computer outage was caused by that software attack?

Oh wait that was the program meant to protect from attacks.

[–] ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Upvote for Avagadros number

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Again, why use Windows at that point?

[–] spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I don't have the level of schizophrenia required for the GIMP ui to make sense.