Just avoid it, if you do not like the pain and monkey business.

Yes. If you can turn a blind eye to the terrible cli, or somehow set up an automated workflow once or find a nice gui/tui tool (by the way if you find one, post it here) - it’s well suited for your task.

By setting a specific temp where AppImage would mount itself, you can be more certain to kill the right thing with regex later:

export TMPDIR=/path/you/want/tmp
./YourApp

Perhaps as a stopgap measure a separate browser profile for it?

It really does not matter which one you use.

Half Life 3

extract () {
  if [ $# -ne 1 ]
  then
    echo "Error: No file specified."
    return 1
  fi
    if [ -f "$1" ] ; then
        case "$1" in
            *.tar.bz2) tar xvjf "$1"   ;;
            *.tar.gz)  tar xvzf "$1"   ;;
            *.tar.xz)  tar xvf "$1"    ;;
            *.tar.zst) tar axvf "$1"   ;;
            *.xz)      xz -kd "$1"     ;;
            *.bz2)     bunzip2 "$1"    ;;
            *.gz)      gunzip "$1"     ;;
            *.tar)     tar xvf "$1"    ;;
            *.tbz2)    tar xvjf "$1"   ;;
            *.tgz)     tar xvzf "$1"   ;;
            *.lzma)    unlzma "$1"     ;;
            *.rar)     unrar x "$1"    ;;
            *.zip)     unzip "$1"      ;;
            *.Z)       uncompress "$1" ;;
            *.7z)      7z x "$1"       ;;
            *.exe)     cabextract "$1" ;;
            *.deb)     ar x "$1"       ;;
            *.jar)     jar xf "$1"     ;;
            *)         echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via extract" ;;
        esac
    else
        echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
    fi
}

You do not get the question, what are this apps? The fact that some random internet dude thinks they’re trustworthy doesn’t matter right now.

Can you tell that is the most of this clutter does? I think I recognize 4 mail apps, 2 browsers, 2 authenticators, really?

Tatiana Okunevskaya

The lady loved to talk out of her ass in her memoirs.

Not at all.

Honestly, I really don’t understand why the job posting is so vague. They could just hire the person without even conducting an interview.

Regardless of which distribution you choose, there will come this moment…

get lucky you can patch shit out or in

In Linux, you can configure everything. And you’re will be forced to do it.

People publish things for all sorts of reasons, sure, but the main one is that they think the information has value. Whether some corporation profits from it is completely irrelevant, the data doesn’t care who benefits. The author doesn’t matter either, what matters is the information itself. Licenses just try to put fences around what should be free, and most of the time they only get in the way. People can follow them or ignore them, and life goes on. The scene understands that better than anyone else. It’s the purest form of the web: information shared for its own sake, without permission, limits, or fake moral theater.

Start small: make your bed, brush your teeth, do your homework every day.

I don’t agree, and your conclusions aren’t obvious to me. All I see is that the only problems are getting information, not putting something into web. And we’re not in hell; in fact, we’re in the very best place and time.

Yes, that’s not even a slap. It’s a gentle caress on the cheek.

I completely disagree. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. What he proposes is just another flavor of technofascism, control disguised as ethics. These so-called humane scraping barriers will end up blocking humans, not machines. We have seen this before with CAPTCHAs, reCAPTCHAs, and all those “human verification” gimmicks, always bypassed by bots and always annoying to real people. Personally, I have nothing against crawlers and bots; they should do their shady jobs. Trying to wall yourself off is just meh. And those fancy licenses or “ethical use” terms won’t change anything either. The web is not the United States, and nobody really cares about someone’s imaginary social contracts. Maybe it’s time to accept a simple fact: once something goes on the web, it becomes public territory, and no one can still pretend to control the flow of information.