now that precompiled binaries for Linux systems are becoming more popular,

Uh, what do you think was in the repositories all these decades? They can contain just the source, but that’s not what most people use.

While the universal nature of SNAPS makes them useful, they will inherently take up a lot more space.

Ah, so you’re talking about those… Yeah, but for those types of packages, including all the dependencies is kind of the point, they’re meant to run on whatever distro where the packager has no influence in what libraries and other dependencies of their software is or.isn’t present. They also bolt on things like sandboxing, so it’s not entirely the same as the distro packages you get through your apt/dnf/zypper/etc.

The weather should be nice, I might get some photography done.

I wouldn’t even call that an apology. One “sorry” and some verbiage alluding to things being better at some mysterious point in the future.

Of course, hollow words is basically what social media is made of, so you’re not wrong…