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"Samsung may only be in the planning stages for its Note7-disabling update in South Korea, but over in the U.S. things are in full swing. The company announced earlier this month that such an update would be sent out to all remaining Note7 units in the US starting on December 19. And now it's time for the first of the big four carriers to push the software to devices…
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@nerthos There's a reason companies refuse to separate security patches from content patches. If you have that ability to chose which updates you instally, you can avoid the shit that they want to force on you.
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@gameragodzilla It's why MS stopped making patches optional, and why they started omnibus patching, so that people could no longer avoid stuff like they did with the "free upgrade" advert update.
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@verius At the risk of channelling rms, if you let them do it when its "okay", they will keep moving the line of when it's "okay" until its clearly on the line of "never okay". Look at Microsoft, for instance.
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@verius I try to comment more generally on principles in situations like this for just this reason; what you do otherwise is end up constructing elaborate flow-chart-requiring apparatus surrounding what is and is not okay. Look at how complicated it is to actually properly unpack the privilege knapsack for an example of that.
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@nerthos I'm much the same these days. Security updates are the only thing I bother with, and only if the security issue affects me.
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