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		jraph on Feb 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making macOS Apps Uninstallable > Somehow I misread the title as making apps impossible to remove Weird, so did I! Why!? After reading it again, there are still an ambiguity though: impossible to install, or that you can uninstall?

Mordisquitos on Feb 18, 2023 [–]

If only we used the de- prefix rather than un- we would be safer from ambiguities: "I saw the app was deinstallable so I deinstalled it, but now I cannot install it back as it is totally uninstallable!"

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