Windows 10 extended support on my main PC: if I have nothing better to do in the moment, I’ll update before Windows picks the most inconvenient time to do it for me.
Windows 11: I almost never wake this laptop. When I do, it’s always downloading and installing updates, running hot and at full tilt. Miserable POS.
TrueNAS: there’s an update?
Home Assistant: maybe once every month or every other month, but only after perusing the change logs and checking against the breaking changes list.
Android: leave the update notification in the tray until I get home on my Wi-Fi, forget about it until I see it again the next day when I’m away from Wi-Fi again, rinse and repeat.
Edit:
Firefox desktop: when Firefox starts refusing to load web pages
Honestly, of all the things I have to update, I find Firefox the most painful, firstly because of the suspension of functional browsing if I ignore it long enough (there’s enough apps out there that update cleanly at launch that I feel like that should be the norm instead of forcing an end to a session), and secondly because updates have wiped my tabs on two occasions. I successfully recovered my tabs from a backed-up session file once, but completely lost them on the other occasion.
boss has this on her pc. put it on after she did accidentally “lose” all her tabs once (she keeps many open and restores session on re-launch). she hasn’t since. and it’s been years.
This has mostly affected me on my work PC. I just tried installing it to find out IT blocks adding new extensions now. :(
I’ll just have to be extra careful not to reflexively close Firefox if my tabs don’t show up, and make sure to make a backup of the old session file before restarting.
Not saying you should have to do this but it might be worth checking if you can store ur current tabs. Maybe some kind of sigterm catch or a cron that regularly queries the active tabs
Windows 10 extended support on my main PC: if I have nothing better to do in the moment, I’ll update before Windows picks the most inconvenient time to do it for me.
Windows 11: I almost never wake this laptop. When I do, it’s always downloading and installing updates, running hot and at full tilt. Miserable POS.
TrueNAS: there’s an update?
Home Assistant: maybe once every month or every other month, but only after perusing the change logs and checking against the breaking changes list.
Android: leave the update notification in the tray until I get home on my Wi-Fi, forget about it until I see it again the next day when I’m away from Wi-Fi again, rinse and repeat.
Edit:
Firefox desktop: when Firefox starts refusing to load web pages
Honestly, of all the things I have to update, I find Firefox the most painful, firstly because of the suspension of functional browsing if I ignore it long enough (there’s enough apps out there that update cleanly at launch that I feel like that should be the norm instead of forcing an end to a session), and secondly because updates have wiped my tabs on two occasions. I successfully recovered my tabs from a backed-up session file once, but completely lost them on the other occasion.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-manager/
boss has this on her pc. put it on after she did accidentally “lose” all her tabs once (she keeps many open and restores session on re-launch). she hasn’t since. and it’s been years.
This has mostly affected me on my work PC. I just tried installing it to find out IT blocks adding new extensions now. :(
I’ll just have to be extra careful not to reflexively close Firefox if my tabs don’t show up, and make sure to make a backup of the old session file before restarting.
There should he a setting that warn you about the tabs before ya close
Not saying you should have to do this but it might be worth checking if you can store ur current tabs. Maybe some kind of sigterm catch or a cron that regularly queries the active tabs
If nothing else it might be an interesting dive