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by thomassmith65
658 days ago
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Not only do I dislike updates, aside from a web browser, I don't want my main machine to have network access (and that just to read static webpages and download non-executable files). The updates and network access are mostly nonsense. The main 'benefit' of the former is to protect my machine from the ramifications of having the network access. The main 'benefit' of the latter is to facilitate downloading the updates. My main computer is what I use to make things. When the software I use suddenly changes, when I have to worry about random apps connecting arbitrarily to other people's machines... it is more an impediment to my making things than it is an aid. |
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Though so much of my actual work now involves network access... whether that's referring to files on someone's OneDrive folder (my admin assistants, who are subject to my institution's obsession with Micro$oft, are constantly sending me links to files in a OneDrive folder) or looking up papers on Google Scholar or PubMed.
I guess what bugs me about modern MacOS and Windows operating systems is that one has no choice but for their computer to be constantly talking to who knows who on the internet, all the time... even if you login and just sit there and not run any internet-facing apps. I could log into my laptop, launch MS Turd, write a paper, and all the while my OS (and MS Turd) would be doing who knows what, at the mercy of who knows what security threats.
I know I could disable WiFi. For a while. Eventually my OS would start complaining.
I guess a linux-based OS in which I lock down network access to (for example) only a web browser. Then at least it's my own hand.