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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • For me, no…

    I’ve gone from debian 9 to debian 11 and now debian sid without reinstalling OS on my desktop

    Same with my servers. Debian 8 -> 11 all upgrades in-place. Will have to upgrade to 12 soon…

    The only time i messed up an upgrade is when accidentally used the codename “bookworm” in the sources file and skipped a major version. The system tried to fully upgrade 2 versions ahead and promptly borked itself… But it was an LXC container so i just rolled back my mistake. Lesson learned…

    But yeah. Full re-installs have NEVER been a thing for me since going debian. It will even happily clone to a new SSD when you need to upgrade your hardware. (As long as your new hardware has in-kernel drivers, or at least some basic functionality to boot and fix the problem, if any)











  • i think its a bit more simple than that

    If a product is really good experience for you (ie. Not crammed with ads) AND you dont pay anything for it, then it’s not profitable.

    Google didnt become one of the biggest companies in the world by doing volunteer work for your benefit

    They only exist to show ads and/or harvest your data. Once those goals are met, then the user doesnt matter. They NEVER mattered