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 Microsoft quietly announce the rebranding of their venerable NT marque. All products to now now carry the WindowsED brand. Industry pundits unsurprised.