[Dalewyn]

My time is too valuable to be wasted by god damn updates, because you know what? I'm only getting older, my eventual demise keeps looming closer, and I have so many things I want to do and places I want to go before the grim reaper picks me up.

It's the kind of re-evaluated outlook on life you only get as you grow older and you start witnessing more and more deaths and imminent deaths around you. I'm also dealing with cancer in the family (I'll spare the details), so my time really is too valuable for god damn software updates.

>I hope you are not handling any customer info on such systems... or are you?!

I'm not. Like I said, if my threat model actually incorporates the kind of threats that updates ostensibly protect against, the scales would weigh differently.

Would I keep business computers updated? Absolutely, if for no other reason than so I can make it all someone else's problem. I'm talking about my own personal computers.

[kdklol]

That is understandable, and, as I said, your choice. You did mention business use in your original comment though, where I wouldn't say it is, or should be.

On a flip side though, I've seen so many older folks loose so much time and undergo a lot of stress (which may be highly unwarranted for medical reasons) from having money stolen by banking malware, or more recently, good old phishing. It's like a vaccine, we endure a small pain to prevent a much greater one in the future.

Anyway, I hope you and your family does well!