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bakugotoday at 12:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

Explains why Windows updates have been more broken than usual lately.

But I guess having my computer randomly stop working because a billion dollar corporation needs to save money by using a shitty text generation algorithm to write code instead of hiring competent programmers is just the new normal now.


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wcoenentoday at 1:09 PM

Do you have "Get the latest updates as soon as they're available" enabled? This automatically installs preview releases, so you may unwittingly be doing QA for Microsoft.

johnebgdtoday at 12:53 PM

I switched to Ubuntu last week for my desktop. First time in my 25+ year career I’ve felt like Microsoft was wasting my time more than administering a Linux desktop would take. The slop effect is real.

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