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    Why block muting the OS? (i.imgflip.com)
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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Sounds pretty secure except for at the update stage, but you said that's handled differently so maybe that's more secure too.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Depending on the use case there's usually a temporary system that's there only to take the update from the user partition and apply it to the system partition. So even if you bork the update it'll still boot into that environment and install the system again. Valve does provide bootable images to put on a USB stick if you do break it pretty bad. It's just a PC, it doesn't do much to stop you from wiping the disk. The route Android took is A/B devices, when you're using A you update B and then reboot into B, then the next update you'll be updating the A partition and reboot into it. Plus if the next one fails to boot for some reason you can revert to the old version as if nothing happened, and retry the update from scratch. Except Samsung, because I don't know I guess they want to turn the updating into a whole experience of anticipation or whatever crap reason they have for it.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

    IIRC, Samsung recently announced they're moving to A/B partitioning as well.