Per the Arch Wiki:

The AUR is unsupported, so any packages you install are your responsibility to update, not pacman’s. If packages in the official repositories are updated, you will need to rebuild any AUR packages that depend on those libraries.

Arch Wiki - Arch User Repository

They have a whole wiki for the AUR.

Arch Wiki - Arch User Repository

To update the package, you use git to pull the latest branch code and repeat the process. You should double check if there are dependency changes though.

Like I said, its easier with a pacman wrapper, but not necessary.

$3409 for some proprietary drivers on my PC? No thanks.

You definitely do not need to use any pacman wrappers to build a package from the AUR. Those tools make it easy, yes, but are not required.

Building a package can be as simple as

• git clone AURpackagehere
• cd AURpackagehere
• makepkg -si

They acknowledge many wrappers, not just yay. However, none are officially supported.

Arch Wiki

Pacman is the only standard package manager for Arch. Arch recommends against using third party package managers, including Yay.

What issues were you having with arch-install that you had to troubleshoot?

Rust-based and actively developed

Why EndeavorOS over arch-install?

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Nah, you were right. Im just joshin around.

Excuse me, did I put a “/s” in my message?

I love watching sex with my son. This is a great suggestion for OP and their son.

Right but Signal has been audited by various security firms throughout its lifetime, and each time they generally report back that this messenger has encryption locked down properly.

Being critical is good, and we should always hold them accountable for our security. We can look to third party audits for help with that.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/overview-of-third-party-security-audits/13243

This entire article is guessing at hypothetical backdoors. Its like saying that AES is backdoored because the US government chose it as the standard defacto symmetrical encryption.

There is no proof that Signal has done anything nefarious at all.

Signal tells me which contacts in my contacts list has Signal. It also alerts me when someone in my contacts installs Signal.

I believe Telegram also does that.

SimpleX does not.

Nah you hit the nail on the head. I 100% agree with you. Sorry if I came off brash.

I know the recommendations. Im suggesting that everyone take a look at those practices and be sure to have them implemented.

If you’re not printing out the codes on paper and sticking them in a safe deposit box as a remote backup, you’re absolutely risking it.