• scrotumnipples@lemmy.world
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      I set mine to manual. It updated in the middle of the night once and my alarm didn’t go off and made me a few hours late to work. Could have totally fucked me over if my boss wasn’t cool about it.

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    I have a MacBook for work and I’m not sure it has ever updated overnight like it said it was gonna. It’s quite annoying because OS X updates (or my work’s custom stuff? Idk) are so, so bad. Big, focus grabbing prompts popping up to say I need to update, when I agree to do it, it has to download too (every other system I use just downloads automatically and only prompts about the restart), and it is the slowest OS update to boot!

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      Same. For me it’s that the operating system seems afraid to close applications. “I can’t reboot because you haven’t accepted the xcode TOS, and I don’t know how to just close the program”.

      Coming from a Linux background, I expect my OS to be comfortable giving programs a few seconds warning, and then brutally killing anything that’s still running.

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    Windows does this as well. Every day I have to clear away a notification saying that it’s going to update during inactive hours and every day it doesn’t. At this point I don’t think it’s able to update, even manually.

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    Custom ROM gang: puts off updates for three months because you can’t be bothered to actually download the package and re-flash it manually, and it might also screw up your user data and require a reinstall

    Granted, this used to be a way bigger problem in the Kitkat/Lollipop days, when CyanogenMod hadn’t become Lineage yet. Nowadays OTA updates work pretty well, but occasionally it’ll still tell you to flash it manually.

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    The annoying thing to me is my watch. I wear my watch to sleep because I like to track my sleep and I like waking up to the vibration as opposed to noise. I have auto update on for my watch but it only will do it in the middle of the night while on the charger. I can’t tell it to do it mid-morning instead. So I always have to remember to manual update after putting it on the charger in the morning.

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    I love it when you can’t synchronize in some app by pressing a button, but instead it tells you it’s gonna do it at some time in the night probably or whatever don’t worry about it. Next morning? Still not synchronized.

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    I think it often does this when you have an alarm set. It doesn’t want to update, then break and have you sleep through whatever time you set to wake up