docs: note Linux screen-share audio limitation + PipeWire workaround

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- **Linux** can't self-update (owned by the package manager / flatpak sandbox), so Blap **notifies**
you and you update with one command — see **[HOW-TO-UPDATE.md](./HOW-TO-UPDATE.md)**.
## Screen sharing audio
- **Windows / macOS** — system audio is shared with your screen automatically.
- **Linux** — Electron can't capture system audio for screen shares (a longstanding
Electron/Chromium limitation, not specific to Blap). Workaround on PipeWire (Debian, Bazzite,
etc.): in the call, open the **mic device dropdown** (the ⌄ next to the mic button) and pick
**"Monitor of \<your output device\>"** as your input — your system audio then rides in on the
mic channel. Note this replaces your microphone, so you share audio *or* talk (use `qpwgraph` /
`pavucontrol` to combine both if you need it).
## Building
Requires Node ≥ 22 and pnpm. From the repo root: