Comment by rocqua
14 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