Comment by rocqua
15 hours ago
The automatic reboot has made the world a better place, because too many people were incredibly bad at making this risk tradeoff.
It might still be bad thing for taking away agency. But it was also a massive improvement to society.
I think it wasnt just reboot inconvenience, I feel like there was a period of time where some software updates would break or make your software experience worse.
I have vague memories as a teenager of running older versions of MSN messenger in compatability mode because after a certain version it was full of ads.
Android phone software is also very good at this now, I still hestate to update my pixel because each update somehow makes my phone worse to use.
That's quiet a bit of stretch to equate forced update reboots to massive societal benefits
The point was about security updates. Without forced upgrades the whole ransomware thing would have been so much worse as just a singular example.