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Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely

Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely - Lemmy.zip

> Pause updates “for as long as you need.” Archived version: https://archive.is/20260320190511/https://www.theverge.com/tech/898082/microsoft-promises-to-end-forced-windows-updates-still-automatic [https://archive.is/20260320190511/https://www.theverge.com/tech/898082/microsoft-promises-to-end-forced-windows-updates-still-automatic]

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Honse 1d ago

Normies will turn it off and never update again leaving them vulnerable. Typical microslop making people insecure over actually improving the updater to just not allow a restart until the user manually does it. But that basic QoL feature is too much effort so slop slop slop instead.

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halcyoncmdr 1d ago

Normies will turn it off and never update again leaving them vulnerable.

That’s the exact reason they stopped letting you disable updates permanently in the first place.

That being said, as it is currently, you already have the option of delaying the restart for multiple days. It only restarts automatically if you repeatedly delay the update for several days and ignore the multiple reminders along the way. And somehow people still complain saying their systems restart “without warning”.

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zurohki

That’s because their systems whine at them so much that they close popups through muscle memory and don’t retain memory of doing so.

Which sounds dumb, but you can’t use modern technology without developing an in-brain adblocker to prevent you from constantly being distracted from the thing you’re trying to pay attention to. Everyone considers your attention to be a resource to be sold or used for their benefit.