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This attitude is a large part of what I find so repulsive about tech today. You are a guest on my machine. No matter how much you think you know better than me (even if you're right!), you don't get to make decisions like that. You can ask nicely, and if you can convince me that something needs to be done, I will decide to do it.


Why, sure. And I'll bet you prefer to do your own vehicle maintenance, too.

But automatic updates aren't for you or me, or any of the other geeks here.

They're for everyone else.


Yep.

That being said, I really like VS Code's approach of having auto-updates enabled by default, but making a switch to turn off the feature available for nerds like us who care.

That's the model to follow in my book.


My device is mine, not everyone else's. It's not your decision to make regardless of whether or not you think it's best for the "greater good".


You're not wrong.

Fortunately, you have choices. You can choose to avoid software and operating systems that feature automatic updates.

You can even write it yourself, if you wish: You're absolutely empowered to be absolutely in control of your things.

There's nothing stopping you.


Practically speaking, we have the choices that one monopoly or another offers us, and only so long as those choices are convenient for them.

I do avoid corporate overreach where it's practical (I have a dumb TV/vehicle/appliances/etc), but there will come a day when it's impossible to participate in society without giving in.


Life is whatever you want it to be.

There's plenty of ways to get through life that don't involve computers or software or television.

You can choose differently than you have.


I'm happy enough with my life. But yours seems like a very ... I don't know, defeatist? point of view.

You make it sound like I can either have the stunted over commercialized shovelware thats on offer or I can choose to go live in a hut in the woods. Where's the middleground where we put a little market pressure on our corporate overlords so they make better widgets?


You can choose to do anything at all. It's your life.

You want software that doesn't update itself on your computer? Nobody is going to stop you. Simply make it so.

(And if you're happy with your life, then what are you here bellyaching about?)


I don't see what this has to do with the discussion at hand at all.




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