I do like setting things up.

Then I realise I need to fuck around with DNS to get it working nicely.

But how else am I to verify my trust? I trust GitHub!

/s

In case of phones, there’s less of a myriad of operating systems and libraries.

A typical Android app is (eventually) Java with some bundled dependencies and ties in to known system endpoints (for stuff like notifications and rendering graphics).

For windows these installers are usually responsible for getting the dependencies. Which is why some installers are enormous (and most installers of that size are web installers, so it looks smaller).

Docker is more aimed at developers and server deployment, you don’t usually use docker for desktop applications. This is the area where you want to skip inconsistencies between environments, especially if these are hard to debug.

your government. We, as non-US majority users, are having struggles of our own. Your elected, fascist government isn’t anywhere near top priority for us and you should stop thinking it is.

That’s enshittification for ya.

Meanwhile, all “lifetime pass” holders are encouraging this, while they have no skin in the game.

Maybe they’re using xdg-dirs? That might work, won’t it?