Today’s XKCD comic may ring true for many people. When it comes to updates, even important ones, they just don’t rank that high in the priority list.
Alt text: I have a bunch of things open right now.
I know I had a SSD brick on me after I failed to apply a firmware update. That was more because you had to burn the update to a CD (which I was out of blank CD-Rs) and boot to it and there was a chance that the firmware update would make you lose your data. Well, it sounded like there was a chance either way…