"On systems with Secure Launch enabled, attempts to shut down, restart, or hibernate after applying the January patches may fail to complete."

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[–] 101 points 9 months ago (17 children)

I just want to know why my Windows 10 laptop is waking up by itself in the middle of the night to apply updates it isn't supposed to have? What the fuck?!

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  • [–] 46 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Have a look at "wake timers", they might be at fault and need disabling

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  • [–] 42 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    Thanks. It was set to Allow Important Only when plugged in, I've disabled it. This prevents me from using Wake-On-Lan, though, which is shitty. I fucking hate Windows.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You can also set a group policy to allow no updates at all except when you approve and download them manually.

    Ridiculous that you need the group policy manager for the basic setting of "don't put shit on my PC without asking," but here we are.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    They can do that, but the next update they actually decide to apply... will rewrite all/most of those changes.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    You know, when an OS out of the box needs hours of disabling invasive bullshit on first boot, maybe the OS is kind of a problem.

    I know switching isn't an alternative for all, hell, even disabling bullshit isn't possible for everyone but for those who can here's a script to manage the most blatant fuckery: 

    https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat.git

    From the description: "A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve your Windows experience. Win11Debloat works for both Windows 10 and Windows 11."

    HOW TO:

    Go to link.

    Click green download button > download .ZIP

    Right click the downloaded file: choose extract all.

    Open folder, double click Win11Debloat.ps1

    Follow instructions.

    Lord over family and friends about being a l33t h4ck3r.

    It's well used and vetted. If you need help with instructions let me know in comments.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    You don't own proprietary software. When you allow it access to your computing resources, you can just hope it does what you want it to do, the way you want it to.

    Sounds like a bonkers extremist position, and in a way it is, but it's also true.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    I still own an original copy of Kung Fu Master for Commodore 64 on cassette. Yes you may prostrate before me.

    (It's got Rambo: First Blood Part II on the flipside:)

    I can make you a copy if you want and if you have an empty full length cassette and a boombox with dual cassette decks... (Fo' a dolla..)

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  • [–] 92 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Be hard for it to stay on with no power cord/battery…

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  • [–] 37 points 9 months ago

    Same as when my computer refuses to finish writing to a flash drive. When I press that "safely remove hardware" button, it is not a request, it is a warning. If the data is corrupted after I yank the stupid thing, so be it

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    That's how the matrix started!

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The MatrixIf humanity's first reaction to sapient machines is to blot out the sun without thinking about what would happen to them, that's on them at that point.

    They're lucky the machines cared enough to try and help humans, rather than leave them to the consequences of their own actions.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    They were probably smart enough to realise that decision was actually made by like, 8 rich guys. I would totally buy a lore revision of the machine uprising gathering an increasing number of disenfranchised and poor people as it went, some of whom would help program the matrix as a means to preserve humanity.

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    [–] 73 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    the key is, from microsoft's perspective, you don't own your computer

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  • [+] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 70 points 9 months ago

    microslop patch

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