Yeah, came home to my pc having restarted itself for updates the other day, despite having 2 VMs running at the time that were not properly shut down. Then Windows tried to push their cloud backup on me… twice, and it reset my mouse speed to the default for some reason
Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
We’re going to restart your computer during active hours. Your work will be interrupted. Fuck you.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
tourist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Then Windows tried to push their cloud backup on me… twice
This is major boundary respect by Microsoft’s standards
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Cloud backup just means they will use all and any data on your pc and network to train their shitty ai to do more shitty things and continue stealing our data. Yay future.
tourist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lets say they don’t use private data for training
(Continue reading when you’re done laughing):
Eventually, victims eventually run out of “free” storage.
The humble corporation will do a bunch of psychologically unethical tricks to basically hypnotize users into forking over those three digits at the back of the family credit card.
Now the victim’s data is effectively held ransom. Keep paying or lose it.
But they won’t stop paying. They paid for a year’s plan at a discount and the peaceful megacorp conveniently hit autorenew for them at checkout.
12 months roll around and oopsie, they already have the money. They could go through the refund process, but they’ve got shit on their plate, might as well keep it for another year.
I could keep rambling, but on Lemmy, I’m probably preaching to the choir about the first verse of genesis.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Yeah, there was at least a skip for now option… What more could I ask for?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
inb4 some commenter says this doesn’t happen.
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It doesn’t happen to me, but I took a proactive approach to prevent it from happening. I don’t remember what that action was, since I did it years and years ago… but I know it’s possible. You just have to literally more than nothing to prevent these things.
Or you could switch to linux… but that takes an even more proactive approach.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
you could switch to linux
Done
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah, so not even speaking from experience, then.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My approach was spending even more money for the pro version so I could access the OS settings paywalled by group policy and set it to never automatically download updates.
It would tell me about updates, but wouldn’t do shit until I clicked a button on the update page to actually install them (though without the option to pick and choose which ones).
It still nagged me about stupid shit I didn’t want, like edge, bing, one drive, and their office subscription.
So when I built a newer computer, I gave them $0 and installed Fedora and laugh at my former reluctance because it’s actually been easier and I haven’t even had moments where I wished I had just stuck with windows.
Not saying that it’s been perfect without any issues, I just recall that there were also issues on windows to deal with, a lot more dated responses showing up in searches that tell you do go to some setting window that no longer exists because the question was answered 6 months ago. Oh and I haven’t had to fight my fucking OS deciding to change my settings back to the shitty defaults they set (plus Linux just has better defaults, so doesn’t even need as much settings tweaking).
And as an added bonus, switching made me finally pull the plug on xbox game pass, which was a nice idea but I still mostly just spent my time playing games on steam and forgetting to check game pass when buying games on sale, so it was kinda a waste of money. But each time I considered getting rid of it before, I’d instead convince myself it was good to have and end up playing some games on there for a few days before forgetting about it again.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The ‘keep changing hours’ section in this article works for me whenever I have to use that partition.
thewindowsclub.com/windows-updates-restart-disabl…
You pretty much create the script and have the task scheduler run it hourly. (You should be able to make it silent, though I’ve never bothered for the hourly, half-second cmd blip)
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I want a script that forces the update servers at Redmond to reboot every hour on the hour
SaltySalamander@fedia.io 2 months ago
You should be able to make it silent
You can make it silent. Create a .vbs file, open it in a text editor, and input the following...
`Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run chr(34) & "z:\path\to\your\script.cmd" & Chr(34), 0
Set WshShell = Nothing`
Have your scheduled task run the .vbs, rather than your initial script.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Interrupted, and not saved
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t everything being saved automatically anyway, when you work in the cloud (i.e. SharePoint)?
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Your Comment (version 1).xlsx has been auto-recovered. Do you want it?
TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, thanks!
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yes, until its somehow automatically deleted during a syncing error and than you’re fucked.
viral.vegabond@piefed.social 2 months ago
It's being saved, but not for you.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Love the snark in this thread
When ppl really Get It, you love to see it
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Libreoffice does this without forcing you to allow them to store all of your files. Because it’s a feature that doesn’t rely on any kind of cloud bs, MS just added that requirement because they are assholes that have no respect for their users.
manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I have to use Power BI for my job and it does automatically saves until it’s been open too long and then it stops automatically saving and also won’t let you manually save. Then you have to do a Save As for some reason, close every open PBI file, and reopen them, which takes approximately 3-5 business days.