I’ve had no problems with the Discord flatpak and updates. I use a KDE variant of UBlue and the package manager prompts me to update all flatpaks when I start the computer (whenever there are updates available), which I do with one click.
For a new user, i would think that individually managing package updates is probably not a desired workflow.
The ability to easily do synchronization through a Nextcloud instance (or commercial cloud storage providers like OneDrive) is what’s keeping me on Joplin.
You’re getting a lot of flack in these comments, but you are absolutely right. All the concerns people have raised about “AI” and the recent wave of machine learning tech are (mostly) valid, but that doesn’t mean AI isn’t incredibly effective in certain use cases. Rather than hating on the technology or ignoring it, the FOSS community should try to find ways of implementing AI that mitigate the problems, while continuing to educate users about the limitations of LLMs, etc.
I’m not sure how well it would work in a self-hosted or server-type context, but GPT4all has built in RAG functionality. There’s also a flatpak in addition to the Windows, Mac and .deb installs.