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The more "oops" things like this get pushed in automatic updates, the more I begin to despise our modern culture of continual updates. This is by no means just

The more "oops" things like this get pushed in automatic updates, the more I begin to despise our modern culture of continual updates. This is by no means just a Microsoft/Windows problem either, this affects everything nowadays. My damn Pixel watch suddenly has a bug where if I turn around and walk back down the road I just came on, it rolls back my distance, like an old school odometer that is just tied to wheel rotations. I'm so sick of having working software one time, and the next time I open it it's broken or worse, has a completely overhauled UI and I don't have time to learn the new way to use it. As a dev I love CI/CD, but as a user I'm beginning to actively despise it for the UX that it's led to. I think too many people have decided that QA isn't needed anymore because "we'll get bug reports and can patch and deploy them quickly." That's a terrible philosophy and you are bad and you should feel bad if that's how you ship your software.

rkagerer 3y ago
I've always despised it. I demand control over the timing of updates, and I allow only very few exceptions in any of what I consider my critical infrastructure. It means I pass on buying or using a lot of modern hardware / software. It also means my PC won't fail the night before a big delivery deadline for a multimillion dollar project for a client (and yes, I also keep duplicate spare hardware and backups to mitigate against regular failure).
JohnFen 3y ago
> I begin to despise our modern culture of continual updates. I started fully despising it a number of years ago. I think it's one of the worst fads that has swept through the industry. I hope that eventually it will die a horrible death.
easton 3y ago
> bug where if I turn around and walk back down the road I just came on, it rolls back my distance, like an old school odometer that is just tied to wheel rotations. Ah, they must be using the classic physics definition of work, where if you start and end in the same position you didn’t do any work. (…does nobody at Google actually look at the step number? Isn’t that half the use of these watches?)
- doubled112 3y ago
  Displacement: 0
ifyoubuildit 3y ago
Absolutely. I don't trust any software these days. It might work today, but it's only a matter of time before the company outgrows the need to satisfy my requirements and I get left behind. At least with local software you could keep an older version if you needed to. With everything in the cloud with a subscription model, you can't get off the ride before they drive it off a cliff. Which it feels like they will do more often than not.
calamari4065 3y ago
My Samsung phone once bricked itself with a forced update. That was fun. It also downloads updates totally unprompted overnight and gives me a non-dismissable notification about it. I also get toasts at random intervals demanding I restart immediately for the 15 minute update process. It lets me defer the update for anywhere between 5 and 9 hours before rebooting with no warning and leaving me with a dead phone for 15 minutes. Absolutely no way to stop it or disable updates. I've gone so far as trying to MiTM the network traffic and blocking the IP it connects to, but it seems to use different addresses sometimes. I'm never buying a Samsung device again. For that matter, I'm never buying a phone that I can't control. Not a fan of some corporation remotely bricking my phone with no warning.

rkagerer 3y ago

I've always despised it. I demand control over the timing of updates, and I allow only very few exceptions in any of what I consider my critical infrastructure. It means I pass on buying or using a lot of modern hardware / software. It also means my PC won't fail the night before a big delivery deadline for a multimillion dollar project for a client (and yes, I also keep duplicate spare hardware and backups to mitigate against regular failure).

JohnFen 3y ago

> I begin to despise our modern culture of continual updates. I started fully despising it a number of years ago. I think it's one of the worst fads that has swept through the industry. I hope that eventually it will die a horrible death.

easton 3y ago

> bug where if I turn around and walk back down the road I just came on, it rolls back my distance, like an old school odometer that is just tied to wheel rotations. Ah, they must be using the classic physics definition of work, where if you start and end in the same position you didn’t do any work. (…does nobody at Google actually look at the step number? Isn’t that half the use of these watches?)

doubled112 3y ago
Displacement: 0

ifyoubuildit 3y ago

Absolutely. I don't trust any software these days. It might work today, but it's only a matter of time before the company outgrows the need to satisfy my requirements and I get left behind. At least with local software you could keep an older version if you needed to. With everything in the cloud with a subscription model, you can't get off the ride before they drive it off a cliff. Which it feels like they will do more often than not.

calamari4065 3y ago

My Samsung phone once bricked itself with a forced update. That was fun. It also downloads updates totally unprompted overnight and gives me a non-dismissable notification about it. I also get toasts at random intervals demanding I restart immediately for the 15 minute update process. It lets me defer the update for anywhere between 5 and 9 hours before rebooting with no warning and leaving me with a dead phone for 15 minutes. Absolutely no way to stop it or disable updates. I've gone so far as trying to MiTM the network traffic and blocking the IP it connects to, but it seems to use different addresses sometimes. I'm never buying a Samsung device again. For that matter, I'm never buying a phone that I can't control. Not a fan of some corporation remotely bricking my phone with no warning.