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I have said this before and I'll keep saying it until it changes: updates suck for 'regular' users, it's like a grenade with five pins, one of which will give you a working machine with some improvements and the other four will result in data loss, loss of critical functionality that you relied upon, more advertising and security issues. It's a total crap shoot and manufacturers should realize that with every botched update user trust in the computing industry is further eroded (assuming that is still possible).



>it's like a grenade with five pins

Isn't the better analogy "a revolver with 6 chambers"? I've never seen a grenade with 6 pins. I don't even know how that would work.



Yeah, Russian roulette is a perfect analogy for this. Never heard of grenade roulette. haha


It’s called hot potato


You have to pull a defined ratio of the pins, like Shamirs secrets




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