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

  • Krompus@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    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?!

    • Damage@slrpnk.net
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      6 days ago

      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.

      • tomiant@piefed.social
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        5 days 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.