• TheOneCurly@feddit.online
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      5 hours ago

      Yeah but imagine reading about a new release of something and it appearing in your updates the same day. Shiny new software every day is addicting.

      • Monstrosity@lemmy.today
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        2 hours ago

        You’re not wrong. That said my broke ass can’t afford cutting edge hardware so most of the time it doesn’t matter.

        When it does, I can usually compensate with either a NixOs profile install, a container of some sort (or Flatpak), or just building the emefferr from source.

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        On the flip side, reading about an exploited vulnerability in a package and then realizing your machine isn’t affected because Debian has an outdated package in it’s repo