Re:A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS
by nitrogen on Saturday December 15, 2018 @02:03PM
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...maybe today I'm starting to see a crack in my "auto update is best" dogma...
For me that crack came when an automatic update to Android removed Exchange server support from my tablet (around 2015). I no longer had a good workflow for keeping up with work communication, which ultimately, as a sometimes-remote dev at the time, cost me a lot of productivity and reputation at that job.
Now, anything that involves my productivity or quality of life (e g. thermostat) is on a manual update process as much as possible.
For me that crack came when an automatic update to Android removed Exchange server support from my tablet (around 2015). I no longer had a good workflow for keeping up with work communication, which ultimately, as a sometimes-remote dev at the time, cost me a lot of productivity and reputation at that job.
Now, anything that involves my productivity or quality of life (e g. thermostat) is on a manual update process as much as possible.