Because I'M NOT SOFTWARE!
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I've never heard anyone use the phrase "up to date" to describe Covid vaccine boosters.
It's also a bad metaphor because software updates are synonymous with increased protection against viruses.
Saying, "Because I'm not software" as a metaphor is like being proud that you haven't updated your virus scanner signatures... which is idiotic.
It was floated recently by the CDC to replace "fully vaccinated" because as we know, once you start, you can never be "fully vaccinated" any more.
They're synonymous with removed features, more breakage, crashes, more vulnerabilities, maybe one security fix and OH WAOW DARK THEME.
Huh, I see only the exact opposite.
I remember Windows 95 being the most famous example of faulty software because it's initial release was very unstable, but the updates fixed things fairly quickly.
So I presume you never update your virus scanning software or firmware to protect against malicious attacks... because you believe that will only make things worse? /s
Good luck with that.
I was going to say this- my first advice to any one who has bought a new computer over the years is to get rid of mcaffee or Norton and get something else because they bog down the system so much.
Amen to this. Your PC comes with windows defender. Your body comes with an immune system. Installing Mcafee is the same as getting covid boosters. It's a perfect analogy.
CCleaner is snake oil lmao.
No. Read my comment again, but this time read it carefully. I'm talking about all software updates ranging from operating systems, firmware, software and virus scanner signatures.
No. Virus scanning software is not obsolete, it's world-wide industry best practice. Any company that's running software, firmware or virus scanning signatures that's more that a few months old, is asking to be fucked. We both know this is how the real world works, at least in this universe.
If you walked into an interview in any information technology company and bragged about how you don't believe in updating firmware, software, operating systems or virus signatures... the interview would end and they would laugh at you... and they'd be right to ridicule you.
Go get your booster, cuck
Seems to me software quality peaked at some point, after which projects started to implode under the weight of their own complexity, caused by an obsession with frameworks and design patterns. I can't determine when that peak was. Windows 95 was before that peak, while desktop software written in JavaScript is definitely after.
That's quite a presumption. I don't use any. Most times when I'm forced to update software, it's because the old version refuses to work and demands to be updated (e.g. Skype). Usually after the update, something else is broken (but at least they added new emoticons!).
Depends what firmware you're talking about.
Thanks. It's been going well so far.
I think Windows XP might have been the peak. That's why I have it on my computer in a virtual machine.
No, I'm confident civilized people can disagree without resorting to personal attacks, caste class systems or division.
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https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html
Here pal. Since you haven't seen it, let me look it up for you.
You're talking down to people in your replies like you're some haxor but you've apparently never experienced an update breaking something?
Not at all. Maintaining software updates is world-wide industry best practice, especially when it comes to virus software.
Software bugs and errors are synonymous with newly released software and those problems are solved using updates.
“Not at all.” People are telling you what their common perception and experience is of buggy software updates and you aren’t listening. It doesn’t matter how much you personally love software updates and think they are great, even if you are right, the common perception is that software updates suck, and memes are based around common perception.
Buggy software is cured by updates - hence the critical flaw in this meme and it's confused and contradictory simile.
It's that simple.
As an apparently less computer literate person than you, it made total sense to me. Maybe I'm an idiot but I thought it fitting. And funny.