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Except the issue with the delay is captured by your analogy perfectly: > You'll be slammed with updates when you turn it on. For a computer that isn’t an issu
by _aavaa_ 4y ago
Except the issue with the delay is captured by your analogy perfectly:
> You'll be slammed with updates when you turn it on.
For a computer that isn’t an issue. But consider the health impact of “getting slammed” with several months, or take to an extreme, several years of missed immunity “updates”
- IMTDb 4y agoEven for computers; for a critical system I'd rather plan some small incremental updates regularly to keep it healthy and under control rather than do nothing for a few years and suddenly go a mega-update of the whole kernel + shared lib + dependencies in one go, hoping that everything is going to be OK.
- _aavaa_ 4y agoBut in theory a computer should not have those issues. It’s just in practice. Even in theory, our bodies pay a non-zero cost for each “update”