@Cerberus Yes, generally. Whole OS updates? No, not usually. But then these things are usually better-tested.
Considering how smooth the OS update from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95 was, and every OS update since then, I'm shocked that MS screwed up the Surface updates. There's, what, 4 variants?!
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I don't struggle at all. A recent and very important example: 4.3 made restoring applications totally impossible for many/most users of Titanium Backup.
Another example: 4.2 disabled most banking applications here.
@Cerberus well, Titanium Backup requires root. As such its functionality is officially unsupported by the OS. If using TB causes something to break, you get to keep both pieces.
The reason matters because if it's the app vendor's fault, then the app vendor should get their act together. Customers demand it. Phones need to be updated.
So you have to really, really like the Android update to make it worth it for you to upgrade immediately. But I don't think an Android update is that important to most users.
I am talking about the choice of an individual user at a specific time, whether or not he should postpone updating. I am not talking about whether or not Google should provide updates. Of course they should.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That's part of it. If you depend on certain applications that may not survive the update, it may be better no to update, and certainly not to update automatically. Same if you cannot tolerate a single afternoon of not being able to use your computer properly.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Several of my favourite applications in Android have lost functionality after an update in the past, or introduced terrible bugs.
The current Swype version has a very bad wake-lock on my phone.
I went back to the previous one.
Buienalarm, the best rain application on the Internet, suddenly no longer had a widget you could use after an update. It tooks months to come back.
That's just two examples off the top of my head.
I do automatically update non-essential applications on Android.
Oh, and many Firefox updates break some things, like add-ons.
@Cerberus I found swype was A) very buggy overall, and B) used some weird app-loading mechanism that didn't go through the store and was extremely annoying. So I uninstalled it. And now the stock keyboard has trace-to-type built-in.
@Cerberus That's the add-on's fault. Seriously, who releases an add-on without thinking that Firefox is going to be updated before they finish submitting the add-on to the add-on store? I uninstall add-ons like that. I don't trust them.
Swype's prediction/correction is still a lot better than that of the default keyboard or Swiftkey.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 You seem to gloss over the functionality of add-ons a little too easily. What if the add-on provides a function that saves you a lot of time and frustration, or opens new possibilities?
If SE becomes buggy, will you simply stop using the site immediately?
@Cerberus It has to be super-useful for me to keep it on if the author can't keep it up to date with FF. Having up-to-date FF is important for so many reasons. It's a sign of poor code quality. I uninstall things that have poor code quality if I can.
@Cerberus It depends. cost-benefit analysis. If SE stopped working every time a browser update was released, yeah. I would.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yes, that is certainly a consideration. I wouldn't not-update Firefox for any add-on. But some are Very Important to me, and others I am prepared to postpone updating for. What's the hurry anyway?
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 What if it stopped working only for a few weeks?
You spend some time on SE arguing with fabulous animals. It would be a pity if they should lack your presence.
@Cerberus If it stopped working for weeks I'd probably stop coming. If it stopped working for a day or two every time FF updated.... I might postpone the updates.
But really I'd probably just skip SE on those days and complain at the SE folks.
@Cerberus well, how would I become a member of the site so that I would want to come back and complain when the site is down without access to the site?
@Cerberus that implies there is only one reason to complain. I refer you to people who complain about EL&U
they complain when the site is available.
also, I know about the address not because I've wanted to complain, but because I've wanted to help. I found out about it because I was reporting a copyright infringer
By the way, did you hear that the NSA wiretapped 70 million conversations in France within 30 days? I rather think they appropriated the metadata, but still.
@MattЭллен Those in the known, like Wyden, who is in the intelligence committee, suggest that the NSA has never used the dragnet to come up with information that was really necessary to prevent a terrorist attack. And, no, wiring money to Somalia is not a terrorist attack.
And, no, the info from the dragnet was not essential: they could have found the guy through other means. In fact, I think they did.
Terrorism is rare. The information can also be acquired through other means. There exists no proof yet that the dragnet has been actually essential in preventing a real terrorism attack.
I feel less safe knowing my and others' governemtns are needlessly watching me. I makes me feel like there should be an uprising to usurp these nosy noras and leave us in peace. Or anarchy, at least.
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