> To re-cap: Screen recording software. Checks for updates every five (5) minutes. That's 12 times an hour.
The tone might be somewhat charged, but this seems like a fair criticism. I can’t imagine many pieces of software that would need to check for updates quite that often. Once a day seems more than enough, outside of the possibility of some critical, all consuming RCE. Or maybe once an hour, if you want to be on the safe side.
I think a lot of people are upset with software that they run on their machines doing things that aren’t sensible.
For example, if I wrote a program that allows you to pick files to process (maybe some front end for ffmpeg or something like that) and decided to keep an index of your entire file system and rebuild it frequently just to add faster search functionality, many people would find that to be wasteful both in regards to CPU, RAM and I/O, alongside privacy/security, although others might not care or even know why their system is suddenly slow.
For contrast: Chrome, a piece of software which has a huge amount of attackable surface area, and lives in a spot with insane stakes if a vulnerability is found, checks for updates every five hours, last I read.
The tone might be somewhat charged, but this seems like a fair criticism. I can’t imagine many pieces of software that would need to check for updates quite that often. Once a day seems more than enough, outside of the possibility of some critical, all consuming RCE. Or maybe once an hour, if you want to be on the safe side.
I think a lot of people are upset with software that they run on their machines doing things that aren’t sensible.
For example, if I wrote a program that allows you to pick files to process (maybe some front end for ffmpeg or something like that) and decided to keep an index of your entire file system and rebuild it frequently just to add faster search functionality, many people would find that to be wasteful both in regards to CPU, RAM and I/O, alongside privacy/security, although others might not care or even know why their system is suddenly slow.