Well. I don't get the point of this program. Did they want to ease the semiconductor supply chain problem? I got my master degree on the field of condensed matter. In the past, our group has strong link to the semiconductor industry. Right now, there are more and more classmates tend to change the field from hardware to software after they graduated.
Yep. Accelerate the global warming for inefficient waste on local fab and pollute the environment globally. For the national security, we could sacrifice all countries including ourself. Hillarius.
For mac, I use little snitch to block all unwanted outgoing streaming include connection to Apple. It is kind of weird that some app keeps connecting to somewhere when I don't need it. The outcome is that some apps might be buggy. For example, Chrome would randomly crash with error code 11 which might be the failure of connecting to their auto-updating server. Vscode might crash with error code 5 also, but I'm not sure if it comes from the network blocking or not.
Even if it is software, I don't want automatically updating. The problem introduced by automatically updating is higher than the problem they fixed in my experience.
For example, windows updating. There was an updating when professor gave the talk in class. Windows updating popped out. There is no way for professor to stop the updating. He missed the chance and windows already went into blue updating screen. So, We had a break, and professor went to his office to find another computer.
Another problem is that automatically updating almost always runs silently. When I played online game and the game went laggy, I always tabbed out to see what happened with resource monitor. It is easy to find out there is whatever updating using CPU or bandwidth.
I feel updating just like legally raping my device. Oh. It is OUR device.
But, this small subset is what company urges to have. If they are willing to lower down the baseline, there are still quite many engineers around the world.
