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br3d@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

This is a good point, but the issue is that vendors have abused this need by not just pushing security updates, but also regular rewrites that make the products more invasive/full of language model shit - Exhibit A being anything at all from Microsoft

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Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
or changing their product from a one time purchase to a subscription model, I predict there’s gonna be a lot more of that with this new forced app updates change.

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Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You can’t maintain security and feature changes separately long term.

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- CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Entirely agree.
  
  Ui changes for the sake of pointing out how many ui changes you shipped for your annual review is what is making people upset.
  
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- gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  And why not ? Care to explain ?
  
  In a sane development model there is not any technical problem to do it.
  
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