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Computers shouldn't auto update. Updates need to be scheduled and monitored and tested.
by ThunderSizzle 2y ago
Computers shouldn't auto update. Updates need to be scheduled and monitored and tested.
- lazide 2y agoEvery CTO’s easy answer - cool, we’ll just only do them once every 5 years then. With modern tech stacks, we’re talking hundreds of updates a quarter. If not more.
- cozzyd 2y agoSounds like they shouldn't be using those tech sticks then.
- paulmd 2y agoThat was the defacto state of things up until windows 10 moved to a forced update model. In that world we regularly had massive malware waves and resultant massive botnets constantly disrupting critical infrastructure. We moved away from that for a reason. And the real fix is to make updates not take down the whole system. When was the last time every Linux system in the world was unable to boot all at the same time? Even the crowdstrike issue only took down a very limited subset of installs and the blast radius is far more minimal due to the linux kernel being a lot more sane and cautious.
- paulddraper 2y agoDesktop operating systems, mobile devices, browsers.....there's a lot that doesn't pass your approval.
- ThunderSizzle 2y agoMy desktop doesn't auto update. It only updates when I ask it to. My phone does auto update, and nearly every auto update makes it worse and slower. That's been true for nearly every Android I've had.
- paulddraper 2y agoThe sheer awesomeness of Android 3 is staggering by now.