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On an update in particular? Or on the set of updates being applied to your system at a given time, if one of them fixes a vulnerability? (Do you filter out the ones that don't?)

And wouldn't a vulnerability still be there even if there wasn't e.g. a PoC disclosed? I'm not really sure how that affects what I'm saying.

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> Do you filter out the ones that don't?

Of course not, that's a straw man that only you are suggesting and often isn't even possible on most systems. People by-and-large will apply all pending updates at once.

Responsible disclosure pushes folks to update. Well, that and new emojis that they're feeling FOMO from. It's a carrot and stick sort of operation.

There's a little box that occasionally pops up in the top right corner of my screen. I usually just click "remind me tomorrow" ad infinitum. But if I find out there's an important vulnerability that an update fixes, I go out of my way to update immediately. That's all I'm saying.

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