• 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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      4 hours ago

      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about an exploited vulnerability in a package and then realizing your machine isn’t affected because Debian has an outdated package in it’s repo