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Title. I always skip them and don't notice any detrimental effects at all. I used to let them run every time, but I don't want to wait 5 minutes for every patch update bug fix anymore

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well holy shit I didn't know that existed!

Presumably they... don't have it GUI exposed because they don't want to give the average user the ability to potentially fully lock up their CPU and totally crash their PC?