That F-Droid even requires to do the build is one of the reasons I created Discoverium.

https://github.com/cygnusx-1-org/Discoverium/

That F-Droid requires to do the build ensures all apps provided by F-Droid are free software (as in freedom) and proven to be buildable by someone other than the app developer

> and proven to be buildable by someone other than the app developer

Yup. That's a huge, huge issue - IME especially once Java enters the scene. Developers have all sorts of weird stuff in their global ~/.m2/settings.xml that they set up a decade ago and probably don't even think about... real fun when they hand over the project to someone else.

The issue is more complicated than that.

Do you mean the overall issue or that F-Droid’s guarantees are arguable? The guarantees may not be the whole discussion, but for many they are the most relevant piece.

Edit: or perhaps you mean that isn’t the only way to provide such guarantees, which is the implication I got reading your other replies.

How so?

So I should take a binary from a random stranger because trust me bro?

It is a modified version of Obtainium. You get it from the author via GitHub.

It's still a binary from a stranger. You don't know from which source it was built.

I see they opened a store again in Santa Clara. I remember the old one next to AMC theater that was a Walmart last I saw.

I have tried Brave multiple times. I find its desktop version as bad or worse than Firefox for things not working or bugginess.

I have used Brave more on Android. I have bounced between Firefox, Brave, and custom builds of Chromium for years. I am currently on Firefox.

Brave opens 99.9% of websites for me and I'm using "Aggressive" mode.

This seems to be their new MO on any high dollar return.

You could argue that it will stay expensive, because the medical industry is acting as gatekeepers. The prime example of this is hearing aids.

You should try pulling it from gcr.io.

Get an Nvidia Shield for the Plex client. It can run the server too, but I would use a different computer for that.

Sadly the standard these days is compile everything in a container. Avoid any conflict by taking the path of least resistance.

I'd argue that that is a failure install and failure to compile. You don't have a binary that can run on your actual system. When I run MS Office in a Windows virtual machine I am running it but it is not cross-platform or running on Linux. I'm virtualizing it. The same applies here.

Please explain. Individual displays doesn't tell me enough.

I like your theory, but it doesn't explain galaxies that don't seem to have any dark matter.