I’m still scared every time I have to update something, so I try to avoid updates if possible.
Most of the time when I had to update Windows or some software, something would break (and no previous bug would be fixed) and I would have to spend a whole day trying to fix the stupid issue.
TBH, I don’t even remember if an update ever fixed something for me (but it probably happened at least once).
Why I don’t update software:
- 1% apathy
- 1% i want it to keep working
- 98% i don’t want to have to fucking reinstall the same fucking nvidia drivers again FOR SOME REASON
I did this on my phone recently. Big mistake.
Fuck oneplus. Never buy this trash.
Get LineageOS. It’s fabulous for oneplus phones
interesting how the post doesn’t mention windows but the replies just assume, i guess that is Lemmy reflex, i have the experience mentioned on the meme with all sorts of software
Because Windows software often include self-updaters because Windows doesn’t update your software all at once for you
“Your smart toaster had an update available!”
Windows 10 extended support on my main PC: if I have nothing better to do in the moment, I’ll update before Windows picks the most inconvenient time to do it for me.
Windows 11: I almost never wake this laptop. When I do, it’s always downloading and installing updates, running hot and at full tilt. Miserable POS.
TrueNAS: there’s an update?
Home Assistant: maybe once every month or every other month, but only after perusing the change logs and checking against the breaking changes list.
Android: leave the update notification in the tray until I get home on my Wi-Fi, forget about it until I see it again the next day when I’m away from Wi-Fi again, rinse and repeat.
Edit:
Firefox desktop: when Firefox starts refusing to load web pages
Honestly, of all the things I have to update, I find Firefox the most painful, firstly because of the suspension of functional browsing if I ignore it long enough (there’s enough apps out there that update cleanly at launch that I feel like that should be the norm instead of forcing an end to a session), and secondly because updates have wiped my tabs on two occasions. I successfully recovered my tabs from a backed-up session file once, but completely lost them on the other occasion.
Not saying you should have to do this but it might be worth checking if you can store ur current tabs. Maybe some kind of sigterm catch or a cron that regularly queries the active tabs
If nothing else it might be an interesting dive
MX Linux here, daily I have a apt full-upgrade running
blue is mislabeled for windows users. it should read:
“because i don’t want more bugs”
