• irmadlad@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    try to stick to reputable projects 1st and be always wary of shady installation tactics

    One of the first things I look for are longevity, last updated/activity, and then I look at the issues posted and responses. I like mature apps because I don’t possess the intelligence to audit code.

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        1 hour ago

        Well, you’re very kind. I do know some coding, as in basic stuff. I can get around as it were. Most of it was learned from manually typing in pages of code from outlets like Byte magazine only to find out when you went to run the program, that you left out a semicolon on line # 5362 and a errant indent on line # 9241.