when i update software. i never notice anything changing in a good way. ever! like ive never seen software update and been like "thanks, thats a great new feature!" the exception of maybe twice, this has never happened? i don't think i've even noticed a bug fix either. i only ever see bad new updates to everything. annoying things they (re)moved. breaking changes. stuff no longer works. customizations i spent ages on no longer have any effect. settings get ignored. stuff breaks. updates are bad
i think i only want my package manager to update things when there's a CVE. is there a way to make this happen. theres like 146 package updates every week. they can't all be critical security fixes can they? do i have to hire an intern to go through them

@jk My guess is It Depends®, mostly on your package manager. unattended-upgrades has a security tag. Or you could go full nerd and use a scraper on mitre, bounce it off your installed packages and install that way.

Eventually, you'll end up stuck on the most secure LTS from 8 years ago with a bunch of manually compiled libs etc and at that point you should probably have just installed BSD and been done with it. Ask me how I know...

@adelie this is where my server is right now, so i guess i should have gone with BSD after all…