• br3d@lemmy.world
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    1 day 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

    • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day 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.

      • gian @lemmy.grys.it
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        22 hours ago

        And why not ? Care to explain ?

        In a sane development model there is not any technical problem to do it.

      • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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        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.