Samsung and Xiaomi apps on their factory defaults are mostly fine, update them once and suddenly you have ads flashing after every 2 interactions with your phone
Blokada. I downgraded to V5 and I won’t change it anytime in the foreseeable future. Whenever I can no longer use v5 I might have to find a different method of filtering ads.
Edit: also, OP, I recommend trying Blokada 5 if ads is what’s annoying you in other apps. Blokada blocks ads on your phone, for all apps, not just a specific app.
Is it a “decent set it and forget it” kind of blocker? Because I might try that on my girlfriend’s phone, I tried TrackerControl with her once, but it kept “breaking” some apps and she didn’t have the patience to just switch the thing off/on.
Audacity. I stayed back at whatever old version for quite some time before finally switching to Tenacity.
What’s up with audacity? I use it like twice a year so I just download it whenever I need and uninstall it. I don’t really do anything except some incredibly basic things (like record audio, cut segments out, maybe some noise reduction if I’m feeling fancy)
The developers sold out, and the new parent company wanted to add opt-out telemetry IIRC. They received a lot of backlash and apparently reduced the data collected, but they had proven that they could not be trusted, and multiple forks were made before the new version with telemetry even released. Tenacity is what came of at least two of those forks.
The Phillips hue bridge app. They forced online login in the new version for “security”. I don’t see how connecting to Philipps servers is more secure than local only.
I’ve still got Twitter installed on my iPhone, despite rarely ever using it in the past and having not even launched it in well over a year.
But out of principle alone, as a form of silent protest I refuse to update it to X.
The Tesla Super Bowl rom hack from when my favorite team was still good. :(
Some apps that I’ve patched with revanced manager like messenger to remove the inbox ads for example.
I disabled updates for Blender and keep another old version for modding purposes I also refuse to update mobile discord since I heard the layout was changing. IDK what discord mobile is supposed to look like anymore, it also stopped letting me use the nitro discord themes a while ago. I’m on a version from Sept 2023 :x
Ah, Blender. I’m mainly using 3.6, because 4.x crashes or freezes too often
Nvidia Shield - The Android update (from 9 to 10, iirc) turned mine into a sluggish, unresponsive piece of crap. I ended up downgrading back to Android 9 and blocked the update servers in my router.
Switch Joycons - This might be a placebo, but I swear that every second Joycon update completely messes with their ability to connect to the tablet via the rails. They still disconnect every once in a while, but I’m certain that some versions of the Joycon firmware made my Switch completely unusable in portable mode.
Discord and spotify cus I modified it illegally:3
Feels like a lot of programs that I use. It is like, if they’re still working as is and nothing is happening to them, why bother?
But specifically, my pick is Windows. I have the most lapsed way of handling Windows OSes over the years.
I was on Windows 98 and it lasted until roughly mid-2000s did I finally get on Windows XP. Didn’t touch Vista. Didn’t touch 7. Got into Windows 8 mid-2010s after buying a friend’s PC. Didn’t get on Windows 10 until a few years ago. Not going to touch Windows 11.
Get win10 LTSC iot. Have to reinstall, not sure you can just convert, but will help if you don’t want Linux. LTSC iot is good til 2032 I think.
