Because they know by doing that they can both get engagement and someone else to find the best quality version for them.

My experience with Apple has been more like

I credit Apple in many ways for their choice to design their business in a way that their profit motive often aligns with their users’ interests.

Their app store model for iOS is one of the strongest examples of them not doing that though.

Cat people are pretty self-sufficient. Normally food, water and a few cats are all they need, and they’ll come to you for attention. If you have two cat people there’s a good chance of them forming a bonded pair, too. More than two cat people and they’ll often socialise together.

Indeed! One of the things this could even do is provide funding for trams if the transit authority funds that to be the correct use of the money.

Oh I knew. It was the last CD in the spindle and I had no plans of buying any more.

The 747 doesn’t have that bad a safety record. I’m more interested in what random radio transmissions occur from it.

A cat and a bike

They’re already getting that illegally so that wouldn’t change.

You can filter posts with specific words or phrases. Or you could make the better choice of switching to Linux and getting a nice pair of programmer socks.

But how am I going to use capabilities to have my equivalent of sl having setuid to nobody?

This is not how probability works.

They’re downloaded somewhere under /var/snap and by default a snap only has access to a limited set of directories - one under /var/snap for system-wide data (generally used by snaps that run services like cups or MySQL) and one under ~/snap for each user. When you snap remove an app, it bundles that up into a file that’s kept for a while in case you reinstall, but it won’t if you use --purge.

Obviously many apps request access to other places (such as non-hidden directories in your homedir) so they can read or write stuff, but that’s down to the app to then behave correctly (same as with any other packaging system).

Let me know when I can get cups as a flatpak.

(Oh and snaps predate flatpaks.)

Yeah the API is open and there used to be an open store, but lack of interest ended up with the project shutting down. As it turns out people don’t like alternative stores nearly as much as they like the idea of alternative stores.

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Google is a Real Estate company that happens to own a search engine.

Yeah, Steam is pretty much a monopoly. But I haven’t seen what I’d call monopolistic practices from them. It’s just that everyone else appears to fall flat on their faces when trying to make a competing product.

I’m less mad at Steam and Google because there are clear, simple ways to avoid their cuts.

I have no basis to say whether they’re providing a service worth the 30% charge. I’m also less mad at Steam than at Google because they’re being less shady about trying to push people into their store too.