As a techy guy, I absolutely hate automatic updates, but for any network connected device, if they don’t have automatic updates most people will literally never update.
Speaking on behalf of my family, they’ll let Internet-enabled stuff go unpatched for 10+ years (I think I had some relatives still using XP within the last couple of years lol).
I would argue this leave it alone behavior would be totally fine, if it wasn’t for every device nowadays being some Internet of shit thing that demands a wifi connection before it can even be setup, which is the real problem as I see it, especially as most of these companies won’t support them with security updates for as long as people expect to use them.
doctortofu@reddthat.com 6 days ago
But what if you want to remove some features that were already sold to users to put them behind a subscription? Or you fired your QA department because you can just sell buggy shit to users, have them find the bugs and fix (or not!) them later? Would someone please think of the poor business owners?!