I hate it. As long as it can be disabled, it’s fine, I guess. A forced update with automatic reboot is annoying at best, and hazardous at worst.
For starters, there’s this navigation and radar system by Furuno called TimeZero (formerly known as MaxSea), and it’s objectively a pretty good piece of software, with the caveat that it runs on windows. More than once have I been contacted by someone needing help to prevent their radar from suddenly reboot8ng while they’re navigating in the dark through shallow water full of reefs.
I hate it. As long as it can be disabled, it’s fine, I guess. A forced update with automatic reboot is annoying at best, and hazardous at worst.
For starters, there’s this navigation and radar system by Furuno called TimeZero (formerly known as MaxSea), and it’s objectively a pretty good piece of software, with the caveat that it runs on windows. More than once have I been contacted by someone needing help to prevent their radar from suddenly reboot8ng while they’re navigating in the dark through shallow water full of reefs.
Secondly, relevant XKCD:
