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So use Obtainium? It’s no worse than f-droid or wherever you get Molly from

Edit: The page just fetches https://updates.signal.org/android/latest.json, which contains a link to the APK you want to download, so you can feed that to any periodic update service you want

Are you messing with me? It’s literally right below: https://signal.org/android/apk/

The elephant is a Hindu god. So it’s a fight of religions, only one child can win so the gods need to fight it out

P2P is a thing, it’s just not practical for large platforms. But you’ll find lots of peer-to-peer in small-scale applications.

Not everyone can run their own instance. Aside from this being tedious if every service did that (you don’t just register an account, gotta figure out how to run it locally), you also run into networking and hardware limitations. To run an instance you need a publicly accessible device that supports that service. Someone just using their phone would have no way of accessing the service. Someone on the road would have no access (unless they also set up a home VPN to connect to their private instance). It’s just not practical.

The strawberries look very red to me, and some of the boxes around have some redish tint (more toward purple)

I typically have one DB service per app service (not just ler cluster, unless multiple services need the same db).

Advantages:

• Simple backup/data organization, each service is self-contained
• True isolation: Unless you manually create DB accounts for each service, likely all your services have access to all data, and even with accounts there are data leaks and exploits

Disadvantages:

• You have more services running than strictly needed, but this is a minuscule impact on performance (the overhead of the DB service is typically not noticable)

20 minutes? That’s a strong focus for a TikTok kid!

In that case it may be to keep birds away (to have them not nest on the balcony)

February, before it was switched over, same as OP. Note also that your screenshot doesn’t match the -10% on Win11 that got OP to make the post in the first place.

Chinese +30%, it’s likely just new users with older OSes (Windows 10?)

That looks like a loading indicator of your client, especially if the gradient of the box is moving

Click on the release (green thingy after description) and download apk

The certificate of example.com refreshed just a few hours ago, if verification fails on your system check your clock (do time and timezone match?)

Of course it won’t do anything, you need to update (refresh the index) before you upgrade (download and install updates), silly you

Latvia is partly involved, yes, but it’s also part Russian and recently moved to Singapore. You may find the history section on Wikipedia interesting; it also lists the russian part-ownership as reason for many users leaving OnlyOffice (and I’ve seen quite a few posts on that at the time).

As for the open-source part, I stand corrected, thank you

From what I can tell, OnlyOffice has the best compatibility and the nicest UI (similar to MS office), same as with the regular applications. NextCloud Office is based on LibreOffice (officially Collabora, which is their name for the web product), so again same as the regular applications you’ll have some compatibility issues. That said, if you don’t need compatibility with existing documents or only documents made with LibreOffice, either is fine.

One concern many have is that OnlyOffice is closed source (edit: my bad, it’s been open-source for a long time) and russian based (edit: partially russian, see Wikipedia), while LibreOffice is open source.

This would likely only hurt the end user. Many use chromium-based browsers, so you’re just driving those away.

You can detect Firefox, so you can do a superficial block in JS, but lemmy is such a simple site that you’d find it hard to find areas where there’s actual differences between the browsers, those usually only come from complex pages like video calling

Not quite correct. For html, that is to signal standard compliance, you can leave it away and the browser will still handle it. For the bash one, all (most) shell scripts use .sh, so you need to give a shebang to tell the loader which executable (sh, bash, zsh, csh, …) to use

Also on Linux xdg does take file extensions into account, just executables do not

You can start steam just fine without the packages. In fact, if you install without them, it’ll ask you to install them every time, but you can skip that and it’ll work, just 32bit games won’t launch

Edit: Looks like I’m partially wrong, as pointed out by a commenter below, steam currently only launches the 32-bit version of the client, despite support for a 5l64-bit client