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[-] Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I mean, shouldn't you be able to refuse updates anyway ? Like if there is something you don't like or that will break your workflow in the update, shouldn't you be able to accept the risks and keep the old version indefinitely ?

Edit : a word was missing.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago

No, not on a business owned device. The updates should give warnings, of course. Some companies don’t seem to know how to supply those warnings before mandating the install, for some reason.

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago

The admins are not InTune with the latest technology

[-] spitfire@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

It doesn’t require „newest technology” (or Intune;)), you could send sensible notifications with SCCM 2007. Not that people would read or act upon them. Some of them would obviously complain there were no notifications (because they simply ignored them and forgot about it) :D

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

My company uses a third-party deployment platform that gives you dialog with a 60 minute countdown and a button to start immediately. And I think the deployment dialog can't pop up if you're not on the computer. Because nobody likes nonsense like five minute countdowns that can start while the screen is locked.

[-] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Companies lock out the computer because it is lacking updates rather than have it working. Apple broke ssh on all their macs with an update for three months or so. Managed to postpone it for a while until the called and said I have to update or be locked out. Luckily I had postponed it for so long that the next update arrived just like a week later.

When you say "companies", do you mean Apple/Microsoft or the company you're working for/with ?

[-] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

I meant the one you are working for

Okay, i see, i'm not that familiar with tech companies. I wouldn't have guessed they'd be that aware of what version of OS people are using.

[-] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

A personal laptop of an employee is a very good entrypoint for an attacker. First thing you do is log in to your job. It may be a vpn, a site login, some token gets stored on your computer for the day. If someone gets access to this, it can be devastating. So, if a vulnerability gets discovered and patched by the OS, it can be very important to update as soon as possible. So companies scan their empoyees laptops, is one thing, and if the try to connect they also try to check that the computer appears up to date, is known, and so on.

[-] spitfire@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

No, because devices need to be compliant, there needs to be an unskipable deadline. Otherwise everyone would just defer.

Do they really imperatively need to be compliant ? (i genuinely don't know, but it seems weird to me, it feels like i can just postpone updates indefinitely on linux)

Or is this that it's way better to be compliant, so companies need to enforce it on their computers (but individuals may not have this need) ?

[-] spitfire@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

You can postpone them but it’s a risk. Companies try to mitigate risks, because they don’t want to get hacked or fined because they don’t follow regulation. And to be honest it’s in your best interest to be up to date too. It’s not such a pain in the ass to reboot your computer every once in a while :)

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago

Plus, he is on Linux. It would take him all of 5 minutes to update on the slowest of hardware.

[-] spitfire@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

As long as he’s not using Gentoo with ebuilds (which I’m 99% positive he isn’t);)

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