abadidea on Nostr: it's clear that the Corporate Overlord rolled out some sort of new all-in-one updater ...

it's clear that the Corporate Overlord rolled out some sort of new all-in-one updater that promised me, in the initial nag screen with the negative day count, that there would be Absolutely No Sudden Surprise Reboots

it turns out that for legal purposes, randomly rebooting your monitor three times and counting, sometimes bringing it back in a different resolution or scaling for just a moment as if intentionally trying to make you motion sick, does not count as rebooting.

But it did heavily imply there would be a reboot at some point!, and then has provided absolutely no further indicators of progress since then. I had to open Task Manager to be informed that "COM Surrogate" is hard at work.

that one's not even the updater's fault, Microsoft has had forty years to make Task Manager less uselessly opaque but they're too busy trying to keep at least one nine of uptime in their cloud services