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  • Forced updates are bad if they bork you system, sure. If you know what you are doing it’s also mostly fine to skip a few. But the truth of the matter is that 95% of users wouldn’t ever update their system if they didn’t have to. Then half of them infect their system with ransomware and the other half get to join a huge botnet.

    We’ve had that before and I wouldn’t want to go back. A few bored systems because of updates are probably preferable to at least as many lost to malware, where data is often unrecoverable.







  • That’s definitely not true, Raspberry Pi OS works and acts like a normal Debian installation per default - with root mounted rw and all.

    Other than that, there isn’t much “treating like an HDD/SSD” going on, it just writes to flash when an application requests it does. If the underlying storage is an eeprom, an sdcard nvme storage doesn’t really change anything here.


  • Most SD cards aren’t really suitable for the kind of workload an operating system generates (that being mostly random i/o). Make sure to get a reputable A2 (application class 2) rated card, they aren’t that expensive but perform way better.

    Raspberry Pi themselves launched a card recently, I haven’t tried that one but it’s probably a good choice too.








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    4 months ago

    I mean when I can take an Arch Linux installation that I forgot about on my server and is now 8 years out of date and simply manually update the key ring and then be up to date

    That won’t work, old pacman versions can’t deal with the fact that packages are now zstandard compressed. In fact, the window were you could successful do the update without a whole bunch of additional work was something like a couple of months. Certainly a whole lot less than a year.