No problems here. I can update.

Hello.

Animals, including insects, are much more intelligent than scientists believe.

Hello.

Currently

php8.3 (8.3.9-1)

is in Debian experimental.....

Since Devuan Chimaera is based on Debian 11 and in Debian 11 chromium is not supported, it cannot be….

Hello.
Just install Brave browser as flatpak. They released official flatpak images

https://flathub.org/apps/com.brave.Browser

Hello.
If you don't want to be tracked and protect yourself from data leaks (if it's possible at all), then there is another project for such purposes called ungoogled-chromium.

I think it is related to this

https://github.com/AppImage/type2-runtime/issues/15

The OSS audio system is used by freebsd. And it works perfectly and is supported on this operating system. I can confirm that the sound quality through OSS is much better than alsa.

I think it is not necessary to install this program. Much easier to use a fully functional Skype in-browser application. It provides all your favourite features.

Here link:

https://www.skype.com/en/features/skype-web/

P.S.
Snap is not supported in Devuan. It is banned package because is tightly integraded with systemd.

Hello.
If you installed  package

xfce4

(Meta-package for the Xfce Lightweight Desktop Environment), it depends on xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin. xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin recommends

pavucontrol

and

pulseaudio

And in Devuan, by default, recommended packages are installed automatically.

If you need to use the latest versions of programs, you can take a look at Artix linux. Keep in mind that the latest versions of programs may contain not only improvements but also bugs.

Hello.

You can install package

ntp