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Comments (2)

happymellon · 8m ago

It is quite annoying that functionality just changes on products I buy. I hate applying updates because rarely are they an improvement.

https://www.sammyfans.com/2025/04/16/samsung-explains-why-bl...

fsflover · 7m ago

On Debian, you can choose to only have automatic security updates. So nontechnical people can just use it and never have any system-relates support requests.