I stopped using the Snap Store the moment I realized the majority of the Snaps were uploaded by totally random people who have zero relationship with the app itself.

For example: https://snapcraft.io/publisher/kz6fittycent

You’re telling me this guy is personally involved with all 43 snaps he’s published? You want me to believe he’s going to dutifully maintain all 43 of them?

Yeah. Okay. Sure. Totally.

It’s like, there’s a man on the street corner selling chicken nuggets he swears he got from McDonalds. Do you want to buy nuggets from him or just walk around the corner and get them from McDonalds yourself?

Oh dear

Sorta. It’s not that they don’t conform to standards.

It’s that they don’t adopt new standards.

The newest iPhone still handles SMS and MMS the same way the iPhone 3G did back in 2008.

It’s like if Ford refused to add CD players to their cars and insisted you use their proprietary “Ford Media Disk”

And if you don’t like that, fine! It still has a tape player!

As everyone else said, they’re floppy disks with the plastic case removed.

Since you found them in a church, could they have belonged to a church bell system? I’ve seen other church bell systems in the past where the songs came on weird mediums.

This is just a random guess, I don’t know why anyone would remove the casing.

The X in DirectX is a placeholder, because it’s a suite of APIs.

DirectShow, DirectSound, DirectMusic, Direct3D, ect.

Its like “Direct____”