this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2024
526 points (98.9% liked)

Technology

59135 readers
2968 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
526
Microsoft to test “new features and more” for aging, stubbornly popular Windows 10 (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
252 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just turn off windows update. Security people are catastrophizing to justify their jobs, ignore their siren call.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Windows is still extremely unsecure even with the latest security updates so how much worse can it really be

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml -3 points 5 months ago

I turn off UAC and defender too, those are basically spyware anyway. Even minimally competent should have no problem by just not downloading viruses and staying behind NAT.