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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Disabled Windows Update and have never been happier.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At that point please just use another OS. You should be keeping your OS up to date.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Number of times I've been hacked: 0

Number of hours I've wasted reinstalling everything because Microsoft bricked my Windows install with a faulty update: 6.022140857×10^23^

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, we live in wild times. Remember when the largest computer outage was caused by that software attack?

Oh wait that was the program meant to protect from attacks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Upvote for Avagadros number

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Again, why use Windows at that point?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I don't have the level of schizophrenia required for the GIMP ui to make sense.