It doesn't even produce convenience versus just doing AUR package install, though! Nor does it actually containerize for security well! It is bloat alone with shit user experience!
Edit: to be fair I should note that VLC in Fedora recently came into conflict with Fedora nonfree blocking all updates via some 1997-level RPM jank, idk whose fault it was, but Flatpak gets you around that so it is not without use
Edit on edit: it runs and doesn't preclude install but current VLC does not work on Fedora out of the box with ANY nonfree codecs
I would be, but the promise is just broken. Let's say you want to do the new cool thing and run Bazzite on your console gaming PC on your TV. Now you also want to watch videos that are any normal format these days or (GASP) HEVC like you could on an XBox. You install flatpak VLC because it "just plays everything" in your experience. Your experience is ruptured for both VLC and flatpak now. Flatpaks run on system .so's actually sometimes and installing a Flatpak doesn't mean an app "just works" like Mac or Windows...
I think it may be vanilla. They add those "thought provoking stories" for users in certain markets based on Pocket. OP should just try disabling all the "show me ads on the homepage" settings and I wager it would all go away.
If you're using IMAP, it would just be sending account credentials from your IP, but X sequential IMAP logins in a row from one IP would suggest one person in 2025, since everyone is using apps.
It's possible that I'm mistaken. I've seen it claimed that it still has the IMEI, but that might be inaccurate, and I don't know exactly where I saw it. I've never seen an explicit claim that it does not before now, so I'm not sure who is correct.
You should also beware that if you use the Google Play stuff for push notifications to work (even sandboxed afaik) it will include the IMEI in the payload when it phones home to Google.
I will grant that 'hot' is often trash, but that's what you get when it's on YOU not an algorithm run by a corporation to curate your own experience. And the idea that .world or hexbear are under moderated is just fucking comedy... I'm banned from like a third of hexbear for saying "short bus" once (although 90% of that is just alaskaball being a sad, petty tyrant like flyingsquid used to be on .world, but even sadder because half the communities they ban their enemies from are abandoned)
Well, to be fair, they'd burn you alive in a cage ala ISIS if you translated those books into a language anyone could read until a scant 400-ish years ago
It doesn't even produce convenience versus just doing AUR package install, though! Nor does it actually containerize for security well! It is bloat alone with shit user experience!
Edit: to be fair I should note that VLC in Fedora recently came into conflict with Fedora nonfree blocking all updates via some 1997-level RPM jank, idk whose fault it was, but Flatpak gets you around that so it is not without use
Edit on edit: it runs and doesn't preclude install but current VLC does not work on Fedora out of the box with ANY nonfree codecs