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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Update culture is a highly harmful, generally established mindset emerging in a
*"Your software is too old, please update to the latest version."*
In software this process is a lot of times automatized and known as [autoupdates](autoupdate.md), but update culture encompasses more than this, it's the whole mentality of having to constantly keep up, update one's software, hardware and other products, it is part of [fear culture](fear_culture.md), [bullshit](bullshit.md) and [consumerism](consumerism.md). Normies get all neurotic when they haven't received their weekly updates that give them new content or fake sense of "[security](security.md)". The truth is updates break more things that they fix and make software progressively [shittier](modern.md). STOP FUCKING UPDATING EVERYTHING EVERY 3 SECONDS YOU IDIOTS. [Good software](lrs.md) is written once and works for hundreds of years without [maintenance](maintenance.md).
In software this process is a lot of times automated and known as [autoupdates](autoupdate.md), but update culture encompasses more than this, it's the whole mentality of having to constantly keep up, update one's software, hardware and other products, it is part of [fear culture](fear_culture.md), [bullshit](bullshit.md) and [consumerism](consumerism.md). Normies get all neurotic when they haven't received their weekly updates that give them new content or fake sense of "[security](security.md)". The truth is updates break more things that they fix and make software progressively [shittier](modern.md). STOP FUCKING UPDATING EVERYTHING EVERY 3 SECONDS YOU IDIOTS. [Good software](lrs.md) is written once and works for hundreds of years without [maintenance](maintenance.md).
A typical example falling under update culture are [web browsers](browser.md) or proprietary [operating systems](operating_system.md) that strive for [bloat monopoly](bloat_monopoly.md). Normalizing the practice of having to consume updates leads to the convenient opportunity for abuse of users: with the stuff you need you may be fed stuff you don't want.