Fully agree 
Run Piaware from Win/Mac Laptop/Desktop - Absolutely No Software Installed on Hard Drive
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(B) Installation of Decoder and Data feeders on USB Flash Memory Stick
(1) Above is for flash memory stick, but shows that I used adsb-project script, as recommended by @wiedehopf
(2) Workaround showed were valid at that time. By now these bugs are most likely removed and workarounds are no more required