If this is not fixed by tomorrow morning i guess i'll make my own Ubuntu distro like i did for my Nvidia rigs.
This auto updating should be optional in my opinion.
I use a customized Arch-based image - but if you don't wanna do that, IMO, give EthOS a try. Auto-update is not only fucking stupid from the POV of possible breakage, but if this OS is ever super popular, the mechanism will almost certainly be compromised and malicious updates pushed to all the poor bastards who use it.