I miss the rare windows updates. On cachyos I get 30 new updates while still doing the 180 updates from 5 minutes ago. And when done with those too, the red flag pops up again with just another 5 😁
No complain tho. At least i know what is updated.
Updating my windows software: yeahhhh I’m lazy about that. I never know if it’s gonna take me to a web page for a piece of software and have me remove and reinstall, or just do it all itself, and I just wanna be using the thing when I’m on Windows and be done.
Updating Linux software on all my distros I use goes so quickly and easily and it’s all just there, doin’ it, and it has been working out so smoothly and easily I update every chance I get. I love it.
On my MacBook I kinda forget to check for updates. I do them whenever I remember or notice they need updating, it’s always easy there too!
You left off “the device literally won’t work anymore until I update it”
It happens more often than you’d think
Good, means they’re working.
I rarely feel the need to not be on the most up to date version. Though if the update hella changes the UI, they can go fuck themselves.
Updates nearly always contain security fixes these days, all of the details of those fixes are generally made public after the updates are released.
Compared to a couple of years ago, it’s comparatively stupidly easy for someone with relatively low skill, to take advantage of the huge list of security vulnerabilities that are being found every day in software you use. Linus Torvalds recently said the Linux security mailing list is inundated to the point of unsustainability due to the recent uptick.
Skip an update if you don’t care that you could be risking someone taking a load of credit from dodgy brokers out in your name, amongst all the rest of the fun that identify theft can entail.
You don’t have to be big to be a target now, we’re all gonna get caught in dragnets unless we keep on top of things
I think you are misquoting Linus, I believe the mailing list was becoming unmanageable because of duplicate (and bogus?) AI reports:
AI tools are great, but only if they actually help, rather than cause unnecessary pain and pointless make-believe work. Feel free to use them, but use them in a way that is productive and makes for a better experience.
Also, a lot of software that people use is offline only, so there shouldn’t be any security vulnerabilities to be weary of (see notepad++ recent hack where you were hacked if you decided to update/install, but not if u just used the damn thingi).
Keeping your stuff that interacts with the internet up to date is important (browser, kernel, whatever), but offline stuff, less so (potentially risking a hack by updating especially in this new AI era where anyone can seemingly find exploits to update servers and whatnot).
Anyways we gotta be vigilant updating software nowadays.
I mean tbh my credit is like 300 so good luck to anyone who steals my shit. I’m going to ignore updates as long as possible, its been proven time and again updates are a way to slow older devices too so I’m gucci
But do they have to perturb the UI and fuck up my muscle memory every damn time?
Yes, because
Yes because no one gets promoted for just fixing bugs and keeping things rock solid and stable.
