I use Obtainium (available in F-Droid) alongside F-Droid since both have auto-updates
this is still tolerable to the old days of updating manually

biggest upside is I can update Tubular/Newpipe faster via Obtainium while F-Droids build system takes days

you might be interested in pinchflat or tubearchivest which are made for this task

thats a big hit for non-commercial laser cutting enthusiasts
Between Visicut and Lightburn, the later was miles away even with its quirks and testing all sorts of stuff with boxes.py was a lot of fun

bummer

Once I realize a package is going to take ages to get ready, is it possible to safely intervene to stop the process? I try to avoid it because in general I understand arch-based distros don’t like “partial” installs. But is it safe to stop compiling? No changes have yet been made, right?

AUR helper do that user friendly, just cancel the process with CTRL-C
the package gets installed only at the END of the compilation

compiling manually (no PKGBUILD or AUR helper) will be different, especially if don’t build a package first
things like make install usually don’t and can leave a mess

Including the xone kernel driver for proprietary Xbox dongles is quite nice
(you can connect Xbox gamepads via bluetooth but that will often times give you a higher input lag for Xbox pads anyway)

Run sudo pacman -Syu

Arch Linux stable should got the KDE 6.1 update today
if it doesn’t appear in your system upgrade you might want to update your mirror list
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mirrors#Sorting_mirrors

there is good hint of xenophobia in your comment
you probably need to meet some people foreign of your country and learn they are humans just like you

It will also allow us to sped less money supporting people here, and do much more for them in their own home countries.

tax rich people/companies
these are taking your money away for a good cause for everyone

I believe thats only true for the unofficial version (Vaultwarden - API compatible to any Bitwarden app)

Ubuntu never advertised itself so blatantly.

Canonical advertising their products has been a thing on Ubuntu server motd for years

this is solid advice

using wine without any helper software is just insane amount of headaches
most also have guides to install all needed dependencies you might need

yea pinchflat has been easy to setup
also adding the videos to Jellyfin was easier than expected

I’m using pinchflat with Jellyfin (category mode “Music videos”) and it displays titles, descriptions and thumbnail correctly

pinchflat allows to embed metadata + thumbnail, idk if tube archivest has that too