I needed to find the source to hear the tone of that statement for myself - it’s from an interview from 2022 (link is timestamped):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdZZpaB2kDM&t=2284

https://flickmetrix.com

Not trying to convince you or anything, but the pairing process can be done via web, without the installing the app.

Staying away from meta products is, in any case, a good idea.

i believe someone released an unofficial UI on github, but i couldn’t tell you the name of the repo anymore

Have a look at dokku, which is a self hosted heroku alternative https://dokku.com/

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