stackyFACTSAllowing your system to patch itself overnight guarantees you will eventually wake up to a completely broken device.
Allowing your system to patch itself overnight guarantees you will eventually wake up to a completely broken device. Because software is impossibly complex, forcing an update on millions of different hardware configurations simultaneously often results in unexpected catastrophic failures. Enabling automatic updates means you are willingly volunteering to be an unwitting beta tester for patches that occasionally break crucial functionality.
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