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[–] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The current mainline kernel hangs on my laptop when the system goes to screen off idle.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

It does this on all laptops. I have three, of different brands, and they're all affected. This issue comes and goes with updates.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

More like: Your battery is too old so we'll pre-bill you for your $99/year subscription for the privilage of installing this CPU-Throttle update that you cannot refuse to install, and battery replacement costs almost as much as a new device.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

MacOS updates are free.

A battery replacement for my iPhone 14 Pro is currently £95 and a new phone would be £1099. I just tried to book for a battery replacement but it advised me not to due to health being at 80%. Now I could go and pay them but they would advise against it until the health is worse to get more value for money.

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I haven't had the "cool free stuff" opinion of software updates since like 2016.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Been a while for me too, I kinda hate it when software changes how it works. Bugs fixed vs. new bugs introduced tends to be net zero anyway, and major updates often break my customizations, scripts and bug workarounds. If it wasn't for the security issues, I'd never update my system.

[–] morto@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

have you tried debian? You can install only security updates if you want, and do a distro upgrade every 5 years, if I recall correctly.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I always used Debian and Debian derivatives for that exact reason. My current main system runs Ubuntu 20.04 which was released in 2020 and officially lost support in May this year. Somehow I'm still getting updates, but I assume that's not a longterm situation.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If youre still on 20.04, I'd really recommend just going vanilla Debian.

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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

We need to find more ways to fund the lovely FOSS devs

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[–] Serroda@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Report button > Check "I'm in this photo and I like it"

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