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I honestly am not at all sure what you mean by much of that.

Demographics don't change the fact that if you don't automatically update software, many users simply won't. That's bad.



... in the usual pedantry of HN your use of "poor" was interpreted to mean socio-economic, rather than... "just bad at something"...


I don’t see how one could parse ”On the other hand users are generally pretty poor at managing software themselves” and assign that interpretation to “poor”.


I agree, but the user who responded to me seemed to talk about demographics as if I had meant "poor" as in not having much money.

The internet is global, sometimes I think things get lost in translation.


That's a reductionist reading of my comment.

I'm challenging your initial assertion that "people are poor at managing software". That's not enough of an explanation to support the second part of your claim:

> and as long as it works they'll happily and probably ignorantly run something that is not secure already and needs an update.

Are they poor at managing software because they are ignorantly running insecure software? Or are they ignorantly running insecure software because they are poor at managing software?

The replies so far take the entire context out of the picture and reframes the issue to "Users use their devices the 'wrong way'." and this can only be solved through technological advances.

I'm here questioning and challenging those assertions.


Oh I see. That's, weird, but thanks for letting me know.




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