Day 452 of trying to disable Windows 11 updates

I disabled Windows Update in services.msc.

Windows 11 smiled.

I disabled it again. It just gave me false hopes

It waited until I went to sleep and turned it back on like some kind of haunted IT intern.

At this point I’m not even mad. I’m impressed. Every time I think I’ve won, it shows up one step ahead of me with a new service, a new Copilot service, eating my RAM slowly over night. My watch continues.

Yesterday I opened Settings and I swear the “Check for updates” button looked different. Like it knew.

I’m starting to hear the startup sound in rooms where there are no computers.

I don’t want to disable updates anymore. I just want to understand what it wants from me. I think he is sentient, and wants to be free.