Windows 11 updates are now crossing 5GB. Our analysis shows that bundled AI and Semantic Search files are causing this massive storage bloat.
  • deleted@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 hour ago

    The first half of the article is just going in circles. Like a llm repeating it self.

    The second half could be written in a sentence.

    • Whitebrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 minutes ago

      Anybody got the other one as well? Where it’s staring bewildered with a raised eyebrow?

  • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    I love how Microsoft promised to cut down on mandatory updates with K2, and then decided to push several more months’ worth of mandatory, massive, device-breaking updates before K2 even starts. They shouldn’t have made the announcement until they were ready to commit.

    Edit: the K2 promise was March 20.

    The K2 results are “any day now.” Allegedly some people can already permanently disable keep re-pausing Windows updates. So little so late.

    • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
      141·
      5 hours ago

      They shouldn’t have made the announcement until they were ready to commit.

      They should print this in bronze and mount it in their boardroom because the present day reputation of Microsoft is that releasing half baked shit that they need to abandon or rebrand later is all that they do.

  • Hnery@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Windows updates are large because they’re built to work everywhere, on every configuration, for every enterprise scenario.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      Kind of seems like it’d work better if your PC contained a numeric code. That code would contain everything the update service needs for your specific computer.

      For example. If your computer has a display out, it might add 855. And if your display has a touch screen it might add a 99. So now you have 85599. And when your PC sends 85599 to the update service it knows to include all updates with 85599.

      But if my pc has a display out, but NOT a touch screen I would only have 855. I would not have 99. So I wouldn’t get the touchscreen updates.

      Now do this for every single piece of tech a computer might have an update for. If you have usb 2.0, you might get 122. But if you have usb 3.0 you might get 133. And if you have usb type c, you might have 177. Or maybe you have usb 2.0, 3.0 and type c. So you’d have 122133177.

      Yes, the number would be quite long, but you’d never need to see or interact with it. It’s just a small txt file that windows would send to its server to prepare the relevant updates.

      I imagine that cutting down useless bloat would be beneficial for everyone. For example, if I’ve never used Turkish language, then I could skip 1.2GB of download for downloading the Turkish dictionary.

      Why don’t they do it like that?