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    [–] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 56 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    "I don't worry about missing security patches. I just have 5 anti-virus tools running simultaneously, they keep me safe."

    [–] meekah@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Or those people who actively avoid patches in general, because "they make my device slow"

    [–] de_lancre@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    I mean, they do make your device slow. That why tools like InSpectre exists. For some old cpu's like my notebooks one it can be up to 20% performance impact, so if you not planning to use it with internet (or at least as main access point via browser) ever again, why not get yourself free performance?

    [–] meekah@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

    sure, if you actually plan to take the device off the network, it should be fine. but that's definitely not what most people who complain about that will do.

    [–] 3ntranced@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

    And all of the anti-virus tools are 50 updates behind so they're essentially non-functional bloatware even moreso