oh my GAWD W10 just updated my nvidia driver to the latest buggy one without asking. that's why the system went down earlier today

what the fuck. thought i had that shit disabled.

btw this is a manifestation of one of the most incredibly mind-bogglingly awful things about W10: microsoft has made it Extremely Difficult to ensure your system stays up for any amount of time

on any day you might return to your PC to find it at the log-on screen, your system having gone down at some point in the last however-long you were away to apply almost-unavoidable patches

i've heard of it happening when people are on their system doing work, and losing work. it's so fucked.

@alyx yeah this is actually awful and the way to prevent it isn't too intuitive

though I've never had it reboot in the middle of me actually being at the computer, it happens when I sleep usually

you can also set "Active hours" during which it will definitely not reboot for updates (for a maximum of 18 hours)

mine are set to 09:00-00:00

@staticsafe yeah, i've been around this block so that's why today's reboots surprised me

i had it licked on my last install, i think i ultimately disabled the windows update service. it still bothered me with an unavoidable pop-up windows 1-2 times a day, but at least it never installed anything until i told it to.

@staticsafe ALTHOUGH my "active hours" are set from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and this nvidia thing happened during the day. i have no explanation.

@alyx yeah I don't either

GPU driver updates don't even need a reboot on Windows so that makes it even weirder

like the nvidia installer just unloads the current driver and then loads in the new one

though I use GeForce Experience to update nvidia drivers, Windows Update doesn't touch those