Software updates Update your software on all your platforms regularly This is the golden rule. We often do it in a work environment and get paid for that We do it for ourselves because it is good for our devices. We are careful doing it on our devices which can be bricked remotely by the factory (TV's treadmills trainers) We install piehole and other ad blackholes to protect our devices from pesky ads There are so many repositories to follow Auto updates are stupid, IMHO, even for workstations On servers with PHP, we need manual granular tested updates, if we used PHP (old version) because we are slow to implement PHP (new major version) Manual updates can be a pain What can happen? We forget one or two full manual updates I've just had to do this $ sudo ./Ventoy2Disk.sh -g -u /dev/sdx Ventoy: 1.1.17 x86_64 longpanda admin@ventoy.net https://www.ventoy.net Upgrade operation is safe, all the data in the 1st partition (iso files and other) will be unchanged! Update Ventoy 1.1.12 ===> 1.1.17 Continue? (y/n) y esp partition processing ... update esp partition attribute Update Ventoy on /dev/sdc successfully finished. Did I forget something else? Probably. Is it critical? Lets see $ ~/bin/yt-dlp -U Current version: stable@2026.07.04 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp Latest version: stable@2026.08.19 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp Current Build Hash: 495be29ff4d9d4e9be7eabdfef225221e5d5282e77f2f505abc6dca80349f3fd Updating to stable@2026.08.19 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp ... Updated yt-dlp to stable@2026.08.19 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp It was not critical, but important none the less Happy updating! Sources https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/README.md#installation https://ventoy.net #programming #infosec #updates #Linux #Android #repositories #BSD