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[-] bstix@feddit.dk 93 points 8 months ago

I was at a Chinese restaurant on Rhodes about 15 years ago, where they served food windows update style.

We ordered off some menu written in Chinese and Greek letters and in a probably wrongly translated German too, so we had no idea of what we actually ordered. Just accepting the terms, right?

Then they started serving food.

We ate through 3 dishes and was about being full thinking this was a great deal, but then they just served another meal, and like, okay.. let's have a taste, and then it just kept coming in table servings instead of individual servings. Every time we emptied a plate theyd bring in something else. We never asked them for anything though.

A few servings in we realised how we'd misinterpreted the menu and said, ok enough is enough, and they were like "but you must have the dessert, it's part of the price, you already paid" (we hadn't actually paid then, but I suppose they meant"included") and so well we ate another three rounds of ice-cream, sugar-fried dumplings and fruit, to the point where I had to stand up and say "No more food! Please no more!", and the waiter was "More food yes coming up!". We stopped her and just stood up, throwing a bunch of money on the table according to our order and hoping it was enough. The waiter then came back with change.

Microsoft wouldn't return your change.

Anyway.. epilogue. I get it now. Chinese custom is to leave food when you're done and an empty plate is a request for more. I was on Rhodes 2 years ago, and tried to find it again, but the restaurant seemed to be gone. There was a kebab shop instead.

[-] bulwark@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Funny enough I had a very similar situation happen to me and a group of friends in Rhodes Greece, except at the end of the meal the bill came and it was exorbitantly expensive. We realized it was a scam but we were drunk and the food was really good so we payed and left.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah, common tourist trap BS.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 70 points 8 months ago

Ubuntu Repos: Sometimes runs out of food or accidentally spills two trays together

Fedora Repos: New plates every week

Debian Repos: Same 3 meals that are 5 star rated

Arch Repos: A machine gun that continuously fires pulverized food at your mouth

[-] harmsy@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago

Manjaro repos: The Arch machine gun, but it keeps jamming.

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 11 points 8 months ago

LOL "every week"?!, those are rookie numbers. Fedora is the distro that finally satisfied my update fetish.

[-] Johanno@feddit.de 4 points 8 months ago

Debian Trixie has daily (even multiple times a day) updates currently.

I update every once in a while. Still need to figure out an update schedule that checks every few hours

[-] dan@upvote.au 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You could install and configure the unattended-upgrades package to install updates in the background. I usually wouldn't recommend it on testing or unstable though. Works well on Debian stable since there's generally no breaking changes.

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[-] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Is there Debian Starlight?

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[-] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 7 points 8 months ago

I only update Arch before installing new software, or when there's a news item about something requiring manual intervention.
So about once a month.
Every update is basically a complete reinstall.

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 4 points 8 months ago

Congratulation, you just invented atomic update.

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[-] Vishram1123@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

LFS: You are your own chef

[-] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 65 points 8 months ago

sometimes the linux updates are negative calories

[-] bulwark@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

That's one of my favorite things with Linux updates. Windows generally doesn't tell you post update install size but I doubt they're making the OS smaller.

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 9 points 8 months ago

Sometimes I update and can no longer boot so I go outside, does that counf

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago

switch your distro if it breaks often

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 13 points 8 months ago
[-] and@sh.itjust.works 41 points 8 months ago

Windows XP enjoyer: no updates 😎

[-] palordrolap@kbin.social 33 points 8 months ago

...and malware out the wazoo.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago

Hopefully you enjoy it without internet connection

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

inb4 eternal blue 2: electric boogaloo

[-] Delta_44@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

Windows: 1GB of download, one bug fix or two. Linux: 20MB, total refactor or some major feature

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 30 points 8 months ago

I would like the rice and bean update but not the other identical rice and bean plate that is rotated 180 degrees.

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

I find 23.3° is the optimal angle, thanks.

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[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

Either way I'm getting diarrhea

[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 20 points 8 months ago

The dopamine from updates is real. After using an arch based distro for awhile, I switched to one with weekly updates instead. I was surprised by how disappointing it was to check for updates and not have any available.

[-] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Arch together with btrfs or zfs (or in a few years, bcachefs) and snapshots is the way to go. You can just boot to a previous snapshot if something fails.

The end game here is of course NixOS, where the operating system itself provides a way to boot to an old configuration by default.

[-] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 17 points 8 months ago

The updates were never the issue, It was having them get in the way of what you were currently doing.

I would say I don't remember updates bothering me as much back on Windows 7? I don't recall them suddenly shutting down my computer when I was in the middle of a game or work, Only to fail and hold my PC hostage for half an hour..

[-] st3ph3n@midwest.social 8 points 8 months ago

Windows' approach now being 'everything is a cumulative update, lol' is what I suspect makes it take so long for the updates to actually install now.

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[-] xradeon@lemmy.one 3 points 8 months ago

Make sure the "Get the latest updates as soon as they're available" is off. I think it's off by default. That setting will reboot your computer no matter what as soon as the update is done installing.

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 8 months ago

Laughs in unattended-upgrades

[-] only0218@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Laughs in atomic distro with rpm-ostree auto updates and flatpaks with them too

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[-] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Waiter feeding you through a tube x…x

[-] quantenzitrone@feddit.de 14 points 8 months ago

tbh the linux updates don't look terribly delicious either

[-] 20hzservers@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Eh generic tex-mex rice and beans pretty good not great. Way better than it looks though.

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[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This isn't fair.

There's a bug in one of the most recent security updates on windows, something to do with the size of the recovery partition, so at the moment plenty of windows users aren't updating or failing to update, and it's not as if windows has fixed it yet either so most users are stuck waiting on it.

In other words: sometimes far too many updates, sometimes not enough (timely) updates, often broken updates.

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[-] Rooki@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

At least they arent forced ;D

[-] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

I said it (at least) a dozen times (what is the repost frequency of this?), but, that food looks disgusting! Like from a dystopian scifi.

"Eat your platter of brown slime from the synthesizer and shut up!"

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago

"Baby are you ok? You've barely touched your plate of beige

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

Brown slime?

You mean refried beans? They're in almost every cheap burrito known to man

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

Chrome is the one I see all the freakin time on Linux .... sometimes it's once a week but it's more like every two weeks they completely update the entire software, get rid of the old and install a new version. It wouldn't be a big deal but if you've tweaked any changes with one version, they get wiped everytime which forces everyone to stick to the software and never change it ever at all.

For the record, I use Firefox and only keep Chrome if I need the browser for any reason ... like casting.

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Please... no more. I can't possibly hold all these updates.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago
[-] sepi@piefed.social 19 points 8 months ago

It's an update dude

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