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sitkacktoday at 12:21 AM2 repliesview on HN

i remember when the TV station would shut down in the middle of the night.

Or businesses would close to do inventory.

We made do.


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denkmoontoday at 12:26 AM

Those are reasonable. A business must take account of its stock - a useful thing is happening. A TV station shuts down in the evening as paying for electricity to broadcast and humans to schedule programming that goes unwatched is unproductive. It is not reasonable that a piece of working software in a product I paid a substantial sum of money for, which has no good reason to not work, should not work randomly.

JauntyHatAngletoday at 12:32 AM

That is an external service needing to do maintenance.

Not my own device on my own machine.

I don't remember a time my CD player on my car would stop working due to an update.