it wasn't abandoned, they are developing an overhaul with a more efficient sync API that required them to rethink how it works internally

there are moderation abilities, but instead of all-seeing global moderators it must be done by the little poor room owner, and the mods they have granted permission.

if the existing owner/mods don't do that, and disgusting content starts appearing in the room, that means they probably aren't active anymore, and that it's time to make a new room with the still active members before something even more damaging happens, like an uncontrollable high volume spammer, at which point you won't be able to tell the others that you have made a new room.

honestly I use the man command whenever I can. It gives distro-specific info, that documents the right version and any distro-specific patches

to be quite honest I don't want to see any large business around my project unless they are paying. They are not my target audience, and I'm not writing to funnel money into their pockets

you can have third party apps as system apps. you can even write your own, but the API docs are somewhat harder to find. nowadays you install them with magisk modules (not all of them contains an app), so that it is easier to revert and also to hide from those looking for it with a bad intent

maybe the card is just faulty. while you're doing that, you could also make a backup and reformat it. but, it'll lose the factory formatting that was possibly done with a few optimized params that make it wear out somewhat slower

Official Signal app. It asks Google to check Signal servers for notifications and to send them to you if there are any.

I don't think that's how push notifications work. It would not be instant, and very frequent polls are very resource intensive, even more if you had to do it for the servers of a million different apps.
UnifiedPush has a diagram here, and the popular proprietary push providers should work the same way too.

Also, Linux does not auto-update itself, and that's bad mostly when looking at the programs (like the web browser) that did that automatically, and here it can't anymore.

I understand that most users don't update their system and the utils they downloaded, but that's essential for a web browser.

I was considering that I should just install Firefox as the fatpak for everyone, instead of the core package manager, for this and other reasons, but my users have so little memory in their old machines that it's already barely necessary.

I hate to say this, but windows rarely breaks itself from updates. basic things like the desktop, audio and the lock screen is essentially never broken after an update.

yeah it may reset the audio settings and other such things, and I don't know how do they manage to do that, but that's relatively simple to revert.

probably it's just thanks to old, battle tested code though. can't wait for Linux desktop systems to reach that point

having it just work is a necessary step to gett there

Automatic updates are essential. and unfortunately, it should not be an option to keep an old version of something, because through shared libraries it will hold back the entire system. fatpaks should be used for those programs.

Fortunately it's getting there, like KDE is working on it too, but it's still got a long way.

ok, but on a smartphone, with touch screen?