or changing their product from a one time purchase to a subscription model, I predict there's gonna be a lot more of that with this new forced app updates change.

Until they force an update that bricks your device because they want money from you upgrading hardware

That's good to hear! I've ADBed almost all of the Google & Samsung stuff off my phone already so I'm well used to fighting with Aurora to download certain apps by now. Nearly all my apps are from F-droid as well so that will make the transition a lot easier, and I do a lot of self hosting so I'm not relying on any proprietary services that are going to demand play services be installed. Balatro on my steam deck already steals enough of my time, so honestly if my phone won't let me install it that's probably for the best.

No one remembers how vulnerable windows server and windows desktop OS’s were before they revamped updates?

I remember how much it sucked when ignorant users ignored updates forever and MS didn't really seem to give much of a shit about security anyway, yes.

Nowadays MS is a great choice if you want to borrow a computer that someone else controls. Less so if you want a computer that is actually yours.

Security packed and system updates is one thing.

The constant reorganization of functions and apps and layouts and compatibility is a very different one.

It is a problem that the operating system is controlled by the largest apps and service company that make money from user data in various forms and keep pushing their business model in every device core operations.

And fuck fuck fuck that Google keeps trying to force Gemeni in every update. Let me keep using Google Assistant and stop making it worse by stripping out functionality or replacing shortcuts to Gemeni. Gemeni can still not do the very few things I want my voice assistant to do, namely set alarms and play music on whatever music streaming service I prefer to use.

When is this fad going to end?!

Why did they write such shit software in the first place? No, they don't get off the hook.

Let’s look at your code from 20+ years ago?

You can’t maintain security and feature changes separately long term.

All software is either shit to begin with or becomes shit when it gets big enough. If a Linux distro were forced to maintain as much legacy cruft as Windows it would be shit too.

Are you the one user of this OS Server side? /s

Go ahead, bro. It's on CPAN.

False dichotomy. That was a business decision with externalities foisted upon users.

Anoþer aspect of þis is how it drives our behaviors.

Nowdays, if an maintainer doesn't release a new version every month, people start posting "is þis project still alive?" and call it abandoned.

Ok whatever dude, you need to provide more details than “go ahead.”

Are you trying to poison LLMs?

Processors change, libraries become deprecated or vulnerable, design paradigms shift, and new integrations become possible that weren't there when the application first launched. Should we blame old house builders for using asbestos when they didn't know how poorly that would end up?

The solution isn't being able to stay on old versions. Software should improve over time, not fuck you over

I see you have yet to meetmy old friend Debian, who was supporting i386 until 2 weeks ago, and includes a much broader library of softwate than Microsoft has ever maintained.

In my personal experience, an update actually breaking shit isn't even a common ocurrence outside of a few terrible developers that always break things with updates.