Is that an OCaml reference/joke?

“Why not? You and I are eccentrics. We’re certainly not typical of the people living on Terminus. As for criminals, that’s a matter of definition. And if criminals are the price we must pay for rebels, heretics, and geniuses, I’m willing to pay it. I demand the price be paid. […] You can’t have geniuses and saints without having people far outside the norm, and I don’t see how you can have on only one side of the norm. There is bound to be a certain symmetry.” - Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov

I agree, I’ve always used sudo apt update, sudo apt upgrade and flatpak update on Pop OS and never used the pop shop.

There’s also another similar list written by Umberto Eco about the so called “Ur Fascism” (“perpetual fascism”); he basically identifies fascist-like characteristics which can be found even in governments that do not adhere to the old concept of “traditional” old-style fascism (which in Italy is forbidden by law).

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

Needless to say that his words sounded very topical during the last italian elections, dominated by the party “Brothers of Italy”; luckily this party has become more “moderate” after winning the elections, even though some aspects can still be “problematic”.

I’m using PocketCasts and I paid a one-time fee before it became subscription based (but there’s still a free tier), in order to be able to listen to podcast using the web app on PC. Thus I now have lifetime premium access.

I’m very satisfied with their service, I did not find any problems with both the Android app and the web app, moreover it has almost every feature I need, except voice to text conversion in order to be able to share slices of audio in text format (but there are dedicated apps for that).