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Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying (arstechnica.com)
The next semi-annual update to Windows 10 will use machine learning models to make automatic rebooting for updates a bit less annoying. From a report: Currently, Windows will detect if you're away from your system (mouse and keyboard idle and not playing video or anything comparable) and perform its reboots during those idle moments. However, at the moment, the system doesn't distinguish between briefly stepping away from the machine to grab a cup of coffee and being away for hours because you've left the office or gone to bed. This has provoked some amount of complaining due to the updates interrupting work. With the new predictive system, Windows will try to distinguish between these two cases, and it will avoid the update if the absence is expected to be short.
With Windows it seems like they are creating more and more patch points just to annoy people. Previously you would see the patches loading. Then installing. This gave users some decent guideline of how long a computer would be down.
Now you might not have any idea that patch is downloading in the background. Until Windows halts everything to force a reboot. After abruptly saving your work, you wait till they install. After the install, it should be a quick reboot.
Oh no. After you've been logged out, some patches still need to be applied before the reboot. But you may not have any idea of how long as the handy timer is gone and replaced with a percentage that seems stuck at 38% for 10 minutes. Then it reboots.
But wait! You're not done. There are patches after the reboot that you have to wait on. So after what may be an unexpected hour down, you can finally login to your machine. Only to have Windows prompt you to reboot again because one patch has to be applied after another patch. Screw you, Microsoft.
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Not surprised. Don't get me started on how many times I have needed to do a reboot immediately before a presentation and purposefully choose "restart (only)" and not "restart and update", only to watch it run updates anyway. Several times I have been late to present because the system was still running the updates I didnt tell it to install when the appointment time arrived.
Exactly. I'm running late and I need to power down my laptop, toss it in my bag, and run. What are my options?
* Cancel
* Update and Restart
* Update and Shut Down
Fuck off Microsoft. I want this laptop in my bag in the next 30 seconds, not 5 minutes from now when you think you're ready for me to go.
What do I do then? Force shutdown and toss it in the bag. Does that harm it? Hasn't yet. So what's the fucking point of not giving me the option to just shut down now?
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And let me guess, you don't know how to use powershell either. Which FYI, let's you go beyond 18hrs. How do you tech illiterate people even get anywhere in life without knowing how to use a CLI.
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