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My PC is not a toy, and is owned by me, not by you. * Don't reboot it without my consent * Don't install/run advertising without my consent * Don't install/r
by tsukikage 9y ago
My PC is not a toy, and is owned by me, not by you.
* Don't reboot it without my consent
* Don't install/run advertising without my consent
* Don't install/run spyware without my consent
* Don't keep interrupting my work to nag me for my consent
The tasks I want to accomplish using my PC are more important to me than the tasks you want to accomplish using my PC. If the latter get in the way of the former, I will take whatever steps are necessary to prevent this from happening.
One might reasonably claim that allowing Windows Update free reign prevents malicious software installing itself on my PC and introducing undesirable behaviour.
However, if the introduction of undesirable behaviour by malicious software is a risk, but the introduction of undesirable behaviour by Microsoft a certainty, the incentives do not favour enabling automatic updates.
The best solution, of course, is to switch to a stable Linux distro.
- Arizhel 9y ago>My PC is not a toy, and is owned by me, not by you. * Don't reboot it without my consent * Don't install/run advertising without my consent * Don't install/run spyware without my consent * Don't keep interrupting my work to nag me for my consent Wrong: you are implicitly agreeing to the above 4 behaviors if you willingly use a Microsoft OS. Any time you select a vendor, you implicitly agree to their business practices and the way their product/service works. For MS, that means you consent to it rebooting whenever it wants, advertising to you, spying on you, and interrupting your work to nag you for consent. If you don't agree with these things, then you need to find another vendor. >The best solution, of course, is to switch to a stable Linux distro. Exactly!
- zanny 9y agoI don't know why you are getting downvoted. If people want to reclaim sovereignty over their computers while also using proprietary operating systems, they will need to get laws passed. Right now, your only right is to buy the hardware you want. From there, that hardware can deny you the right to install another OS, deny you the right to change the hardware, or deny you the right of knowing how the hardware works. Without those, you aren't much of an owner of anything.
- Arizhel 9y agoI'm getting downvoted because this site is full of Microsoft sycophants. It happens every time I say anything about Microsoft here. I'll get a few upvotes from people like yourself who agree with me on issues like the one here, but then I'll get swamped with downvotes from the MS lovers.
- apostacy 9y agoI totally agree with you. Unfortunately, it is becoming culturally acceptable to push destructive updates on users. Dropbox for Linux downloads and installs new binaries and unlinks the old ones. Of course Chrome does this. Firefox does it too. I shouldn't have to be so vigilant in defending my computer. Of course it is not as bad as on OSX, where if you install any Google product, like Drive or Chrome, it will nag you to authenticate it, by misleading you with messages like "We need you to authenticate so that our software can run properly" (It will run fine without you authorizing it). Google will then install the deceptively named "Keystone Agent", which runs as root, and monitors your filesystem for Google software, and will silently delete and replace it with the latest versions. Often, these newer versions remove existing functionality, such as the ability to disable DRM in Chrome [1]. The reason for this pattern for updates, is because users might not agree to this if they were given a choice. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13514415