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@polarisfm@www.librepunk.club @amolith I was under the impression that updates are given to a certain part of the user base at a time. Once a few of those computers have generated some beneficial telemetry by crashing, the devs can fine tune the updates and release them to a larger number of users.

@michcio @izaya @LunaDragofelis@vulpine.club Here's the video if you're interested: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m3vIEKWrP9Q

@maltimore You know, I've been thinking about that too. I just need to figure out where would I get the time to start that project. It will take a while to read enough to make educated decisions on what to install.

@milan At some point they also started using pentalobe screws. Then they moved on to hiding the battery inside the case. Next step was to attach the caseless cells with glue. Why don't they just cast the whole board in resin to make it all a single module.

@amolith Are you sure you didn't SSH into the museum of technology?

In any case, letting your IT department know about the security aspects of the situation might be a good idea. Using an ancient version like that might be attributed to just being lazy, but there are also good reasons to stick with a certain version number. It's just that then you would also have to isolate that computer from the rest of the world in order to be able to safely run your ancient code you can't upgrade to be compatible with newer versions of Java.

@andredo But obviously that's just the beginning of a sigmoid curve where the maximum value is 24 h/d.

@matt My solution to that problem was to buy laptop with AMD hardware. Sadly, the WiFi was still trash and one update sealed the deal about a year later. That's went my current laptop has an Intel GPU and WiFi, which allows me to enjoy the full glory of Fedora every day.

@sir Well that's just one way of connecting several words together. German, Swedish, Finnish and many other languages have something similar, but what makes English interesting in this case is the way it's shortening the words.

@McKenna @OCRbot Actually, the economy of many companies is very fragile; sort of like a house of cards. It's bad PR to let everyone know that, so they just don't advertise it.

I like to think of systems like this as a small warehouse with a constant flow of packages entering and leaving. When both flows are in balance, everything works beautifully. However, if one flow is ever so slightly greater than the other, you'll have a catastrophe in a month.