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cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/56776769

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[–] kolorafa@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Anti rollback shoud have exceptions for when new software is bad/broken, you would be able to unlock/disable this feature (with some boot alerts or something).