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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord)
@xkeeper.net

if your software's auto update function does anything other than pop up a little icon in the corner saying "update available" or whatever i want to drop you into a lava pit

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Reyas Wilfred
@reyas.bsky.social

i'd be okay with it having up to two lines of text selling me on the update like imagine if it said Update Available -Fixes that bug that's been irritating you -Adds support for .mkv

Nachie Θ∆
@shaymin.club

sorry! didn't hear you. in two minutes your computer will be forcibly shut down and we are going to install updates. you cannot turn this off. you cannot delay this. we will also turn all the telemetry back on without telling you and add more ai you didn't ask for in the process

Kasami
@kasami.bsky.social

Yesterday I opened a document in libreoffice, which I do every week, and it somehow still needed to run the updater *three times* before actually loading it. I thought it was stuck in a weird loop and was about to go kill it. I can tolerate it once but if it's gonna act like that I'm turning it off.

Echo (Oct-Dec survival costs 506/4000)
@enorkri.bsky.social

as someone who's grandmother nearly just died bc her samsung galaxy autoupdated and she couldnt find any of her 'apps' INCLUDING THE PHONE CALL APP, i HIGHLY agree. It took ME nearly a half hour to figure out where it was and move it for easy use, imagine an 80 year old having an emergency trying to