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    [–] [email protected] 94 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I was at a Chinese restaurant on Rhodes about 15 years ago, where they served food windows update style.

    We ordered off some menu written in Chinese and Greek letters and in a probably wrongly translated German too, so we had no idea of what we actually ordered. Just accepting the terms, right?

    Then they started serving food.

    We ate through 3 dishes and was about being full thinking this was a great deal, but then they just served another meal, and like, okay.. let's have a taste, and then it just kept coming in table servings instead of individual servings. Every time we emptied a plate theyd bring in something else. We never asked them for anything though.

    A few servings in we realised how we'd misinterpreted the menu and said, ok enough is enough, and they were like "but you must have the dessert, it's part of the price, you already paid" (we hadn't actually paid then, but I suppose they meant"included") and so well we ate another three rounds of ice-cream, sugar-fried dumplings and fruit, to the point where I had to stand up and say "No more food! Please no more!", and the waiter was "More food yes coming up!". We stopped her and just stood up, throwing a bunch of money on the table according to our order and hoping it was enough. The waiter then came back with change.

    Microsoft wouldn't return your change.

    Anyway.. epilogue. I get it now. Chinese custom is to leave food when you're done and an empty plate is a request for more. I was on Rhodes 2 years ago, and tried to find it again, but the restaurant seemed to be gone. There was a kebab shop instead.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Funny enough I had a very similar situation happen to me and a group of friends in Rhodes Greece, except at the end of the meal the bill came and it was exorbitantly expensive. We realized it was a scam but we were drunk and the food was really good so we payed and left.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, common tourist trap BS.

    [–] [email protected] 73 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Ubuntu Repos: Sometimes runs out of food or accidentally spills two trays together

    Fedora Repos: New plates every week

    Debian Repos: Same 3 meals that are 5 star rated

    Arch Repos: A machine gun that continuously fires pulverized food at your mouth

    [–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago

    Manjaro repos: The Arch machine gun, but it keeps jamming.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    LOL "every week"?!, those are rookie numbers. Fedora is the distro that finally satisfied my update fetish.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Debian Trixie has daily (even multiple times a day) updates currently.

    I update every once in a while. Still need to figure out an update schedule that checks every few hours

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    You could install and configure the unattended-upgrades package to install updates in the background. I usually wouldn't recommend it on testing or unstable though. Works well on Debian stable since there's generally no breaking changes.

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I only update Arch before installing new software, or when there's a news item about something requiring manual intervention.
    So about once a month.
    Every update is basically a complete reinstall.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

    Congratulation, you just invented atomic update.

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

    LFS: You are your own chef

    [–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    sometimes the linux updates are negative calories

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

    That's one of my favorite things with Linux updates. Windows generally doesn't tell you post update install size but I doubt they're making the OS smaller.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Sometimes I update and can no longer boot so I go outside, does that counf

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    switch your distro if it breaks often

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    [–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Windows XP enjoyer: no updates 😎

    [–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago

    ...and malware out the wazoo.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

    Hopefully you enjoy it without internet connection

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

    inb4 eternal blue 2: electric boogaloo

    [–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

    Windows: 1GB of download, one bug fix or two. Linux: 20MB, total refactor or some major feature

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I would like the rice and bean update but not the other identical rice and bean plate that is rotated 180 degrees.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I find 23.3° is the optimal angle, thanks.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

    You shouldn't use flatpaks then

    [–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Either way I'm getting diarrhea

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Digestion issue, get a stronger stomach scrub. /s

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Unironically, Lemmy's got a real evident fiber deficiency based on how many of you vibe with bowel complaints.

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    [–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    The dopamine from updates is real. After using an arch based distro for awhile, I switched to one with weekly updates instead. I was surprised by how disappointing it was to check for updates and not have any available.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Arch together with btrfs or zfs (or in a few years, bcachefs) and snapshots is the way to go. You can just boot to a previous snapshot if something fails.

    The end game here is of course NixOS, where the operating system itself provides a way to boot to an old configuration by default.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    When does Microsoft add another search bar? I need it so bad

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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The updates were never the issue, It was having them get in the way of what you were currently doing.

    I would say I don't remember updates bothering me as much back on Windows 7? I don't recall them suddenly shutting down my computer when I was in the middle of a game or work, Only to fail and hold my PC hostage for half an hour..

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Windows' approach now being 'everything is a cumulative update, lol' is what I suspect makes it take so long for the updates to actually install now.

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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Laughs in unattended-upgrades

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

    Waiter feeding you through a tube x…x

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

    Laughs in atomic distro with rpm-ostree auto updates and flatpaks with them too

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    [–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    tbh the linux updates don't look terribly delicious either

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Eh generic tex-mex rice and beans pretty good not great. Way better than it looks though.

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

    This isn't fair.

    There's a bug in one of the most recent security updates on windows, something to do with the size of the recovery partition, so at the moment plenty of windows users aren't updating or failing to update, and it's not as if windows has fixed it yet either so most users are stuck waiting on it.

    In other words: sometimes far too many updates, sometimes not enough (timely) updates, often broken updates.

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    [–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

    --noconfirm makes this just an IV of goop straight into my computer's arm.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

    Please... no more. I can't possibly hold all these updates.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Chrome is the one I see all the freakin time on Linux .... sometimes it's once a week but it's more like every two weeks they completely update the entire software, get rid of the old and install a new version. It wouldn't be a big deal but if you've tweaked any changes with one version, they get wiped everytime which forces everyone to stick to the software and never change it ever at all.

    For the record, I use Firefox and only keep Chrome if I need the browser for any reason ... like casting.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    You clearly don't have Discord.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I think the devs know at this point people are gonna keep using it no matter what for the foreseeable future.

    How else are you gonna talk to you friends? You really wanna be "that friend" who forces everyone else to download another program and make a new account?

    They'll only fix issues if it shows up on a financial report.

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

    At least they arent forced ;D

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