this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2025
47 points (96.1% liked)
Technology
41087 readers
195 users here now
A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.
Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
All of this is so on the nose except the updates bit.
Sorry, mate, but if you skip an update because you don't feel like keeping up and it's because there's a massive security flaw that leaves your PC up to easy compromise, that's genuinely a bad thing.
Yeah, most times updates are just new features but if you're not paying attention you have no idea if it's a feature update or a security update, do you?
If only you have physical access to your computers and they're firewalled properly sure, maybe it's safe enough, but the vast majority of people don't have things firewalled properly at the very least.
I don't know, that's the only bit that seems a bit short-sighted to me, especially when it comes to more casual users.
I just update programs regularly through my package manager. No need to nag me about it.
Most updates are a waste of time on my phone. Open a streaming media player for a closed streaming service and before it let's you watch anything it reminds you that you can spend a minute or two updating to a new version indistinguishable from the o/d version. Who knows what they're changing because the attack surface is basically nonexistent and bugs aren't being fixed.