why is it pinging the github server every minute??

cosmic@pop-os:~$ sudo tcpdump | grep “github”

[sudo] password for cosmic:

tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v[v]… for full protocol decode

listening on enp1s0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), snapshot length 262144 bytes

03:12:25.287023 IP pop-os.58602 > fw.domain: 11618+ [1au] A? github.com. (39)

03:12:25.358983 IP pop-os.39648 > lb-140-82-116-3-sea.github.com.https: Flags [S], seq 4137790427, win 64240, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 2108472627 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0

03:12:25.423103 IP lb-140-82-116-3-sea.github.com.https > pop-os.39648: Flags [S.], seq 1114499144, ack 4137790428, win 65160, options [mss 1360,sackOK,TS val 2211975173 ecr 2108472627,nop,wscale 8], length 0

03:12:25.423162 IP pop-os.39648 > lb-140-82-116-3-sea.github.com.https: Flags [.], ack 1, win 502, options [nop,nop,TS val 2108472691 ecr 2211975173], length 0

03:12:25.428280 IP pop-os.39648 > lb-140-82-116-3-sea.github.com.https: Flags [P.], seq 1:518, ack 1, win 502, options [nop,nop,TS val 2108472696 ecr 2211975173], length 517

that is a good point… I obviously missed that. my generally would only use flatpak from the same developer of the app, or I will just use the deb packaged by my distro.

actually there is difference in version between the two. deb by my distro is in 4.0.0 (mar, 2022) while flatpak is 5.0.0 (nov, 2024)

i am not sure which one is the native version… you mean the version packaged by the distro (deb) or the developer (flatpak)?

cosmic