And there’s even more people who don’t understand the dangers. Install the wrong APK or click a fishy link, and your device can be completely fucked without you ever knowing. That’s why the AOSP has worked so hard on isolation and ACL.

In my experience it’s very optional

I always just used custom ROMs without root

What do you need root for these days??

Neither of these were abandoned

I like Gemini a lot and use it often, but I did disable it for web search.

Of course it’s his choice, it’s his system.

The general advice is that handpicking updates from main repos is a big no-no. There are only a couple of reasons you would ever need that, like updating archlinux-keyring on a very outdated system.

Even on my 13 year old install with many thousands of packages, it’s not hard to spot if anything is out of the ordinary when doing huge upgrades. You should pay attention.

That being said, I often just do pacman -Syu --noconfirm && poweroff these days. It’s so rare that anything breaks and I can very easily fix it if it does.

Just look at their principles.

If your upgrade says anything out of the ordinary, which it most definitely did here, that should probably trigger something in you. This is the case for any distro.

Same, my desktop PC had Arch installed in 2012 lol

Arch is definitely not “an experimental distro”. It doesn’t just break, and all the software in their repos is considered stable.

If you have been using Arch for any meaningful amount of time, the massive output from OPs upgrade should be glaring.

The whole point of the update is to avoid the silly Windows-like mentality of flatpack. It splits the package up so you can choose what you want instead of installing a bunch of crap you won’t ever use. If OP had been awake while doing a full upgrade on his bleeding edge system, he would have noticed.

Yeah I can’t believe he’s been using Arch for 5 years and didn’t even bat an eye over the massive pacman output

When an upgrade spits out that much text, you should bat an eye.

95% of the kernel is just drivers, so ofc it makes sense to cut out what you don’t need when you know exactly which hardware you will have forever.

Same with everything else. It’s a video game console. The real point is that Linux with Proton, which you can install anywhere, can now beat Windows at its own game so to speak.

Actually, the apple climbs up the tree and claims it made it

Can you though? Can I build the apk myself and use their services?

I almost exclusively used both through Android with Chromecast, and I must say, I’ve had way more trouble with Emby than Plex.

Also on smart TVs, the Plex apps just have way fewer issues in my experience.

If you need a daemon (to always run in the background, like on a server), use Deluge or Transmission.

If you just need a basic client that can live in your systray, qBittorrent.

I agree. My .zshrc is littered with functions. Most useful ones are my pack and extract I made ~10 years ago, they just recognize file extension and use the correct tool.