Oh 100%.

Microsoft claimed ages ago when they made updates effectively mandatory (you can turn them off entirely or delay them by 27 day chunks forever on non-enterprise installs) that they would dynamically detect the times your computer wasn’t actively being used and try to target that, but it never really made a difference besides “aim for when the computer is likely powered off anyway”.

And that still doesn’t hit the basic “is the user presenting in PowerPoint, running a full screen video/program?” sort of common freaking sense stuff you’re talking about.

In some nicer news, Microsoft finally started trying to release some updates as “live updates” that don’t require a reboot late last year. So maybe in a decade they’ll get close to the Linux update experience.

Yeah, there should at least be the option for the original tracker files.

Money making scheme:

What the hell are you talking about? I’ve checked OP’s post history and everything has proper titles. Checked your comment history and the last post they made that you brought this up on likewise has an accurate title, and I’m not seeing any evidence that it was edited after posting.

Most of all, why waste time complaining about it? Just block and move on with your life.

My kind of people. Lesbians, apparently?

So much for data being anonymized. They correlate individual users between multiple, completely unrelated apps.

At around 22 years old, I met an athletic little stick of a 19 year old lady who hadn’t grown out of her rebellious phase yet. She was into a somewhat rare combination of dad-bod and bad boy, trying to maximize parental upset. Going for the complete opposite of how she appeared at first glance.

A friend in their late 20s had brought the young one along to help pretend they weren’t rounding the corner on 30 themselves. Funny thing is, the 19yo and nearly 30yo had a falling out later when the younger one settled into responsible adulthood before the older one.

Younger one got out from under her parents and settled into responsible (and domestic) adulthood almost immediately, dropping the bad boys and keeping the dad-bod thing. Married pretty quick too, to what looked like a kind snuggly bear of a guy, before I lost touch with her.

Sounds like your IT doesn’t know how to properly orchestrate updates.

Best way to do it in a Windows enterprise environment that I’ve seen so far:

• 1 Week: Install in the background silently and finish when the machine reboots.
• After the week, 2 Days: Warn once that the machine will automatically reboot in 48 hours.
• 12 hours before forced reboot: Pop up a warning in the corner with the countdown before reboot. Options are reboot now or warn me again in X hours. If you dismiss it without selecting, it pops up again in an hour.

If your Windows machine hasn’t rebooted in a week and a half, of course you’re going to have performance issues. What, you expect devs to avoid memory leaks?

That all said, the amount of Windows sysadmins who haven’t entirely given up on wrestling Microsoft’s update bullshittery is shrinking every day.

If it’s a side project, then by definition I’m doing it for fun or to build certain skills, not as some sort of “product”. Personally, I don’t do “professional” work outside of my job.

But yeah, getting sidetracked is absolutely a classic trap.

At risk of sidetracking more, could you turn the monitoring you’re doing into its own project or something at least re-usable?

If not, I’d either self-host something or just continue using what you’ve made as-is.

People doing crazy shit instead of just finding a ladder.

pidgin

God how I miss interoperability. I went to college right as all the disparate chat systems started coalescing into everyone just using Facebook, and it was super useful being able to chat across all the platforms (including FB) from one program

Man, I’ll never forget Final Fantasy Legend 3 for the GB. I wasn’t super familiar with RPGs yet. You spend the whole game flying through time in a magic stealth bomber, fighting monsters flowing out from a giant pot in the sky flooding the world and releasing monsters.

You finally get enough upgrades and equipment for your jet to travel to the flooded future you were sent to the past from as babies, and get the final upgrades. You’re traveling to the farthest past you can, flying directly into the evil pot in the sky, and stopping things at the source before any of this can happen. Bootstrap paradox? No. We’re stopping this.

God is there. Begging you to kill them as they are losing the fight to hold back the evil that they have now absorbed to make it an easy target. So the final boss fight starts super somber as your team just fucking pummel the hell out of God while your jet does fucking bombing runs, lays down laser cover fire, etc. God doesn’t strike back, just occasionally spurring you on. Sad music.

Then God falls. But not fast enough. A Lovecraftian nightmare bursts out as the true final boss. The real boss battle begins, music switches to what you’d expect. While you still have backup from your time traveling stealth bomber.

It’s fucking wild, and a great game. It’s actually the third game in the SaGa series, but they wanted to leverage the Final Fantasy brand recognition in the US.

Got a Japan-only remake on the DS that has a (technically incomplete, just missing some automatically triggered cutscene special move names) fan translation.

Again, I must emphasize: Time traveling stealth bomber, that eventually provides air support in battles.

But I need my armpits for THE STINKING

It’s an edit of one of their real marketing slogans, “play has no limits”

Say no more say no more

I believe they’re logged in paid Azure Tenants, and tenants with security licensing can set up Conditional Access policies to do things like restrict IPs from specific countries from making login requests.

More profitable, allows for far more control. When you’ve abandoned all morals and everything else for pure maximization of profit, it unfortunately makes a lot of sense.

DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS

So your complaint, for posterity

More seriously, you pretty much got it. It’s an unfunny failure of a caricature of these fuckers, based off what is years old news, that does nothing but stoke impotent feelings of elitism.

It’s self-making your own circus for the bread and circus distraction from doing anything useful about the problem, and I find it awfully similar to public masturbation at this point.

A more succinct comment, and what I probably just should have went for my initial comment given this is a shit post community, is the meme of Squidward saying “brave today, aren’t we?”

It’s boring and overdone.

No shit Sherlock. So why are we trying our best to turn them into the clowns to make a circus to go with the bread instead of talking about how to do something? Why are we helping them make things worse by just turning them into a punchline.

More so, why are we settling for such a weak ass punchline about a version of the problem that’s from multiple years ago?

This limp dicked masturbatory elitism just downplays the seriousness of the situation while stoking a futile feeling of elitism that goes nowhere. “Look, aren’t we better than these hilariously sad excuses for a cum stain? Time to go be smug and continue sitting on my ass doing nothing.”