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Cake day: March 22nd, 2026

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  • “I enrolled my laptop into Windows 11 Insiders Program that delivers updates on a more frequent basis, turned it off for half a year and then got mad that I missed a bunch of updates, so I decided to sit there and mash the update button to constantly ping for updates instead of doing literally anything else while it’s updating, because I wanted to run tests and had to be fully up-to-date.”

    Microslop got a lot of issues, but this is fucking ridiculous, the author sounds insufferable.

    “But who in the temple is going to sit there for 10 minutes or more while this downloads new updates and reboots?”

    Oh, idk, people who don’t enroll themselves into a faster paced update cycle.

    “And may the gods help you if you buy a brand new PC that’s been sitting on a shelf for months or years. You might have hours of updates after you first take it out of the box.”

    I don’t know a single piece of electronic that doesn’t require updating after purchasing. Hours, though? Is this guy on a 10kbps connection or where is this fantasy coming from?