And how does making a google search constitute “handing over everything to Google”?
Especially in your example of the default context when a user is using Safari, which has tracking protection enabled. And possibly using iCloud Relay to anonymize browsing.
As another commenter mentioned, AppImage might be easier in these circumstances. They wouldn’t be dependent on any external Flatpak installation & configuration.
This would not. This allows applications to list and select USB devices.
However, you can install most applications to a USB stick today. As long as they’re built for the same architecture and all the dependencies are satisfied everything should just work.
There is a huge disparity in the quality, UX, and features of the clients. Many clients are missing basic features like scrubbing, subtitles, saving position, etc… Many platform-specific clients are people’s pet projects and quickly lose support or are half baked.
Furthermore my wife and kids are not technical the way I am—when things don’t work properly they can’t debug & diagnose, they simply can’t use it. And I personally don’t want to spend my time diagnosing why I can’t fast-forward a TV show and so on.
And how does making a google search constitute “handing over everything to Google”?
Especially in your example of the default context when a user is using Safari, which has tracking protection enabled. And possibly using iCloud Relay to anonymize browsing.