Sure would be nice if they caught and fixed that before pushing the update and requiring users to do it themselves.

Sorry you had to go through with that.

Point-release distros like to tout stability, but they face all the same problems as rolling-release distros when upgrading between versions.

Just dusted off one of my old Android apps and I completely agree with you.

Android has to be one of the least-competent, hacked-together, yet overengineered pieces of shit on the planet.

It saddens me that people were paid 6 figures to make it. They did not deserve that money and did a horrible job.

I agree, but tightly-coupling when it isn’t necessary is a sign of incompetence.

Cloudflare offers at-cost domain names. There’s a lot of issues with using them though. Since they’re so big, they have a culture of giving governments/oligarchs whatever they want.

There is Njalla, owned by someone involved with The Pirate Bay. It supposedly allows users to buy domain names privately, although I’m not sure at what cost. I’ve read users saying that Njalla will revoke domain names if pressured by outside forces, so they don’t seem like a good option similar to cloudflare.

The DNS is a tool of surveillance and control and we should move away from it as quickly as possible.