Hello there!
I’m also @savvywolf@furry.engineer , and I have a website at https://www.savagewolf.org/ .
He/They
If I wanted to self host a search engine, I’d just use a proper one that actually searches content rather than regurgitates bullshit.
Search engines worked just fine until Google and Microsoft decided that they wanted to sell their AI products.
Unless it’s a JavaScript app which uses some random build system (that was popular when they started work on the app but is now outdated) that you need to set up and learn.
Or it’s a Python app that doesn’t work because you don’t have the right version of python and backwards compatibility is a myth.
Ehh… I’ll do it tomorrow.
Oh lmao, I decided to look into this. https://github.com/flathub/com.ktechpit.torrhunt/blob/master/com.ktechpit.torrhunt.yaml
Looks like it just downloads the .snap package (directly from Canonical’s website) and extracts it. It’s also, of course, completely closed source so who knows what it’s doing when it’s running.
I mean, bait aside, creating a new distro with an existing package manager allows you to set up a different set of default packages and even add your own new/updated ones. That’s the value of it there.