add update mechanism

[ThatNerdSquared]

reasoning

• we can’t update the app in the future without an updater mechanism, unless we get people to manually re-download and replace the app, which probably won’t get a lot of cooperation because:
  1. people are lazy
  2. people are used to everything else having autoupdate

implementation ideas

• i’m not sure if there’s an existing package we can use here, if there’s a good one we might be able to just plug one in. it also doesn’t seem too difficult to build a simple one.
  • updater should be separate binary so it can delete/add new daemon + gui
• the updater will likely need to contact some outside service to check if the current app version is still the latest one
  • for each build, store the app version number in the Config
• ideally, this is just “curl this GitHub URL” or something like that so we don’t need to run our own servers
• if we do need to run our own server-side tech to store the latest version number or something, i would stick this onto a cloudflare worker or some other serverless platform so we don’t need to pay for it.
• it’s also dead simple to just return a singular version number string so, shouldn’t be too hard to build/maintain

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