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Re:The Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download Ne... by Ajay-p on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:40AM (#38164864)
A classmate of mine was committed to this position. He told me that each time he updated his device he lost functionalist that he liked, was given functionality that he disliked, and of course the issue of greater resources such as battery drainage.
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Re:The Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download Ne... by gus_massa on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:45AM (#38164953)
It's a problem with cheap tablets. They work with the OS version they are shipped, but after an upgrade they may become too slow to be usable.
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Re:The Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download Ne... by wkat4242 on Monday November 06, 2023 @12:21PM (#38165516)
It's also an issue with computers. Macs in particular.
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Re:The Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download Ne... by soylentcola on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @12:32PM (#38179916)
And many modern TVs (or as I call them, "bargain basement smartphones strapped to really nice screens".)
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Re:The Never-Updaters: Why Some People Refuse to Download Ne... by antifa on Monday November 06, 2023 @02:25PM (#38167497)
I'd speculate the amount of people who have experienced malware that an update would have protected them from is orders of magnitudes smaller than the amount of people who have reliably experienced things worse after update or the update is the malware.
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