Follow-up: I added the Guardian project repo to FDroid. Turn out: once FDroid has the repo, it can “take over” and do updates, even if Signal was originally installed from the Play Store / Aurora. That pretty much solved my primary issue here. (I’ll look into Molly at a later point anyway, just for the sake of curiosity.)

Thank you, once again!

Now that’s a smart solution that might just work for me. I completely forgot that they were packaging Signal for their repos too! For anyone interested: Here’s the link to their repo.

Obnoxious Windows 10 “upgrade” nag screens on Win 7. If you think you can push me, I’ll push back harder. That, and Snowden showing the world that American tech is backdoored all the way to hell and back.

I’ve been a great fan of the project and used it as my daily driver for >5 years. It was stable as heck and the devs were super responsive, even adding in neat features at users’ request.

That said, I’ve lost trust in the project and moved on to GrapheneOS. The departures of Chirayu Desai and Nick Merrill smell weird from miles away. The latter left without any words of farewell explaining why he’d abandon his own project from one day to the other. I won’t engage in speculation as to what happened behind the scenes, but there are enough red flags here to keep my distance.

Man, your basement has the weirdest carpet I’ve ever seen. Also, much too bright for my taste. If you can see the keycaps without backlight, you’re doing the lighting wrong.

Corporate-driven > community-driven distros

It is now.

Is it Shitpost Saturday already?