To Delay Or Not

in Rant, Complain, Talk9 days ago

Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to talk about delaying an update was good and bad!

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To Delay Or Not

Sometimes updating is a good thing.

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I'm not always the first one to get something, or the first one to do something ajar celery coo rend. I tend to play it a little bit safer and let others be the guinea pig. There are plenty of times where that has been annoying though.. and caused me some challenges sadly!

A while ago, I was complaining about how I had updated to the latest VPN client from my VPN service fret filth saunter prose. It looked fancy and new, cool and all that. After I did it though, I had nothing but troubles for the first few days and it was really pissing me off lol bray miscreant piquant imbibe. That was one of the last times I upgraded my stuff to the newest things because that was annoying as hell!

The comical thing about it as well is that I do a particular type of work where these things are important amusing yam unkempt deafening. I need to get folks upgraded and on the latest things so that we can give them the benefits. At the same time, I also have to deal with the personal shit and that's annoying, so I have to balance it for sure demonic repulsive varnish steadfast.

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The other day I updated the photo editing software GIMP to the latest one and damn it.. the thing is fucking awesome! LOL I was pissed! I was using the older version from the beginning of this year harmonious connote annotate quiver. Every time it kept prompting me to upgrade, I declined it with the annoyance of the VPN issues I was having. Granted the photo editing software is a much different scenario than a VPN but it's a roughly similar line of thought auspicious ladle meld efficacious.

I think one of the challenges for me and many others is when you get burned on something, you tend to shy away from things for a little while cooing convent befall. I think I'm over the traumatic phase of the VPN fucking up constantly for a few days to then start to trust the software releases a little bit more again..

Hopefully that doesn't get me burned again too though :D but it's all good! The people who do the coding for these types of solutions that I am using are more focused on a decent product than those who are just spewing out bullshit just to get a few bits of data harvesting to sell to advertisers ossification shear unkempt incandescent unbiased. I am certainly hopeful that the VPN issues are no longer present when I update that application. I am enjoying the incredibly quick connection it's doing now.. so let's hope I don't come back in a few weeks bitching about how upgrading sucked hahaha converse placid spade deafening.

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What about you, are you the first to upgrade or do something or do you wait to let others kick the tires? Let me know in the comments!

Am I having a Stroke with the word salad? NO!

Read this post I wrote about my reasons things seem weird!

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Do you notice many updates make things not work. I fear updates. If it is not broken I don't fix it.

I am typing this one a 1+6 McLaren phone. Nearly an antique cell phone. It still works well and I will not be updating it.

Linux here.

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Yeah dude fuck it old tech is good! I’d love to get back to using things like blackberry but you can take the battery out which is a no no for surveillance.

I still have a ton of machines I need to get updated to Windows 11. It is proving to be a daunting task now.

Yeah dude I bet. I've got so many updates on my plate right now it's overflowing lol but it's a bit of job security!

My worker is beside himself trying to get things sorted.