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Imagine Windows deciding to do a forced auto-update (or hard disk check) ten minutes before performance. Or breaking down because the system doesn’t work well a

Imagine Windows deciding to do a forced auto-update (or hard disk check) ten minutes before performance. Or breaking down because the system doesn’t work well after the update. I set up a VR performance in a gallery once. It was supposed to run the same piece of a basic program for 3 months. Since it was Windows we had to do additional steps to make sure that it wouldn’t try to update* and possibly break drivers. Because there wasn’t IT staff around to fix things if it broke down. I never had such issues with MacOS. * - additional steps like making sure the built-in wireless is disabled and it doesn’t remember any wifi passwords, so it doesn’t try to fetch any sort of update. Because even if you disable Windows updates, you have a bunch of other drivers that may ignore those settings. And then, if we needed to put anything new on the computer, we had to either use usb-sticks or break the airgap and redo all the testing - so it had to be timed so that we would have at least half a day to fix it if broken.

himujjal 6y ago
Turning off Windows Updates is 10 minute work. And I am no Windows expert. Just got to know this via a youtube video. I am not sure how you couldn't disable updates. I am not a professional, so I might not know audio stuffs. But manual Windows Updates is easy.
- kolinko 6y ago
  NVidia has it's own auto-update system, and some other programs as well.
  - verall 6y ago
    If you don't install the "GeForce Experience", which given your use case, you obviously would not, the graphics driver does not auto update and has no way to do so.
tomcam 6y ago
You ever work with Joanna Klass? Also... the Posterous link in your profile is of course dead
- kolinko 6y ago
  Nah, the VR work was with Norbert Delman: http://norbertdelman.com/2017/1951 http://norbertdelman.com/2017/1951 Posterous - oh no! ;) Perhaps I will change the link to the webarchive page of it :)
Applejinx 6y ago
I'm watching MacOS gradually become this, and I'm not pleased about it. I'm pretty sure I understand why it's happening: Apple is managing its full ecosystem for its own benefit. My concern is that as a fallible lil' human, and moreover one with autism, I find it probably more upsetting than most to have stuff randomly break for no reason. I depend on continuity and repetitiveness to be well. As such I try to operate on computer systems that don't change out from under me at someone else's whim, because I can be thrown into the inability to function, by something at an unexpected level of abstraction blowing up. This most recently happened under OSX Mojave when my (non-Apple)_apps could no longer check with the authentication server and would not launch. I lost a day to trying to repair my system: Apple had never told me 'by the way, everything you run now has to talk to a server of ours or it'll refuse to launch'. I disabled the functionality, but I can't have things like that going on. It makes Apple the cyber-terrorist they are trying to 'protect' us from. Again, I understand their motivation as they are a titanic collective entity trying to administrate and tend another titanic collective entity, their userbase, which they feel is a part of themselves. However, as a lil' human type, I am too deeply committed to maintaining usefulness for lots of older computers owned by other lil' human types, many of whom can't consistently throw thousands of dollars at Apple to stay in the ecosystem as Apple understands it. I find Apple's actions morally reprehensible (granted, among the least reprehensible actors in the world of computers and internet, but still)
bentcorner 6y ago
> I set up a VR performance in a gallery once. It was supposed to run the same piece of a basic program for 3 months. Windows 10 LTSC is a good fit for this type of scenario. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/ltsc-what-is-it-and-when-should-it-be-used/ba-p/293181 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/l...

himujjal 6y ago

Turning off Windows Updates is 10 minute work. And I am no Windows expert. Just got to know this via a youtube video. I am not sure how you couldn't disable updates. I am not a professional, so I might not know audio stuffs. But manual Windows Updates is easy.

kolinko 6y ago
NVidia has it's own auto-update system, and some other programs as well.
- verall 6y ago
  If you don't install the "GeForce Experience", which given your use case, you obviously would not, the graphics driver does not auto update and has no way to do so.

tomcam 6y ago

You ever work with Joanna Klass? Also... the Posterous link in your profile is of course dead

kolinko 6y ago
Nah, the VR work was with Norbert Delman: http://norbertdelman.com/2017/1951 http://norbertdelman.com/2017/1951 Posterous - oh no! ;) Perhaps I will change the link to the webarchive page of it :)

Applejinx 6y ago

I'm watching MacOS gradually become this, and I'm not pleased about it. I'm pretty sure I understand why it's happening: Apple is managing its full ecosystem for its own benefit. My concern is that as a fallible lil' human, and moreover one with autism, I find it probably more upsetting than most to have stuff randomly break for no reason. I depend on continuity and repetitiveness to be well. As such I try to operate on computer systems that don't change out from under me at someone else's whim, because I can be thrown into the inability to function, by something at an unexpected level of abstraction blowing up. This most recently happened under OSX Mojave when my (non-Apple)_apps could no longer check with the authentication server and would not launch. I lost a day to trying to repair my system: Apple had never told me 'by the way, everything you run now has to talk to a server of ours or it'll refuse to launch'. I disabled the functionality, but I can't have things like that going on. It makes Apple the cyber-terrorist they are trying to 'protect' us from. Again, I understand their motivation as they are a titanic collective entity trying to administrate and tend another titanic collective entity, their userbase, which they feel is a part of themselves. However, as a lil' human type, I am too deeply committed to maintaining usefulness for lots of older computers owned by other lil' human types, many of whom can't consistently throw thousands of dollars at Apple to stay in the ecosystem as Apple understands it. I find Apple's actions morally reprehensible (granted, among the least reprehensible actors in the world of computers and internet, but still)

bentcorner 6y ago

> I set up a VR performance in a gallery once. It was supposed to run the same piece of a basic program for 3 months. Windows 10 LTSC is a good fit for this type of scenario. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/ltsc-what-is-it-and-when-should-it-be-used/ba-p/293181 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/l...