So, fuck, yeah, Slow Dempsey is left to reboot himself in the still watches of the night after applying five months of updates and appears to have updated without issues, apart from all that wank about Microsith Edge on startup. You'd better not have changed the default browser, Billy Boy, or your screams will be audible by the crew of the ISS. But soft! What is this? A “cumulative update” for the update? OK, get on with it.
“Soz, but ur Babbage-Engine is not inna state to apply the updated update to ur updates. Plz to poke `Retry’ when u think, based on absolutely no comprehensible information, u wanna try again. Innit*.”
(Pokes “Retry”)
It seems that Slow Dempsey needs to apply some other updates before he can install the update to the update. I wot not the purpose of a “Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8” but Microsith seems to regard it as important. I dare say the Beast of Redmond has sound technical reasons for not installing this one alongside all the other guff last night, and also for the curious use of the word “Preview” which suggests that once it’s done it’ll have to be repeated for the actual update, but wha'evs as Bethany (10) might say.
Oh. It didn’t. “Ur up to date” quoth the raven slow one, without installing the updated update for last night’s update.
(Takes deep breath, clicks “Download and install” link under the words “Feature update to Windows 10, version 20H2”)
Oh, and Mega-Global Fruit Corporation of Cupertino, USAnia, which one of your black polo neck cleverclogs though it was a good idea to put an “undo” key right next to the fucking space bar?
* NB: if Windows actually did talk like that I'd feel a bit warmer towards it, albeit not much.
Edit: 'kinell, that was quick! 20 minutes from poking the link to having him back up and running. Something must have gone wrong.