To me, the killer feature of Unity was the searchable application menus. Wish that was still a thing

KDE supports this! It's called the "global menu", and has search built in. GTK app support is iffy, though

Since I found with searchable app menus / start menus that I don't ever navigate through menus but just start typing, I ditched the menu entirely and have KRunner bound to the Win key. Not only is it fine with any desktop app GTK or not (that packagers have ensured will install with its FreeDesktop metadata file or some such), it supports all the enabled KDE Search plugins. So I don't ever open a calc app again, either..

Sorry but no, the parent commenters looked for a global menu within an application (File -> Open, File -> Save, etc.)

by the way, on macOS the global menu is searchable, too. Shortcut is Command+Shift+/

> Sorry but no, the parent commenters looked for a global menu within an application (File -> Open, File -> Save, etc.)

KDE has such a feature, and yes "Global Menu" is the term for the application menu being pulled into system dock

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_reque...

Same here! Never found a replacement for it in Gnome Shell.

In Ubuntu MATE there's a mode that sort of emulates Unity.

>Most native speakers seem to be convinced that vowels are the most important part of English

As a native English speaker studying Spanish, my impression is that English cares about the consonants and Spanish is way more about the vowels. YMMV

One Battle After Another - skip everything in the earlier timeline at the beginning of the movie. Nothing is lost. It might even be better, because what exactly is happening is a bit of a mystery but you still get all the info you need in the end.

Which unit is the fun game that gets played. I've seen way to many products right beside each other that use different measurements.

Most people will have devices that can easily convert measurements to the desired unit.

That same device can also calculate the unit price (since you know price & weight), so why even print it, right?

Oh fun, now I can invest even more time and energy into grocery shopping.

There is no federal law requiring unit requiring unit pricing, but the the NIST has guidelines that most grocery stores follow voluntarily. 9 states have adopted the guidelines as law.

https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2023/02/09/2023%...

I don't think that's correct. Prices for retail goods aren't usually even attached to the product in interstate commerce, and are shown locally on store shelving.

Any applicable unit pricing requirements would be at the state/local level, not federal, but only a few states have such requirements. See: https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/national-legal-metrology/us-ret...

I think most of the confusion arises because when you are tunneling X via ssh, the X client/server is the reverse of the shh client/server.

Add to that that the user manages the ssh connection while the X connection is managed for them...

> Did big businesses in the West really think “investing” in China would lead to “freedom” and such? Isn’t that framing a bit naive?

I think the OP would frame this as the Western governments allowing Western businesses to invest in China.

> How did you forget that Apple offers alternatives to almost everything Microsoft has, and is one of the world's largest companies?

I think the point is to avoid dependence on US based companies as opposed to getting away from Microsoft specifically. You will notice they did not mention obvious Google products as an alternative either.

Isn't a wealth tax just an expanded capital gains tax?

If last year I had wealth X and this year I have wealth X+Y, I have to pay a wealth tax on the gains, in addition to the the tax on the amount I had previously.

So my gains are still taxed.

The big differences are:

- Wealth tax is much lower, think a percent of your wealth or less vs 20% of your gains.

- You can avoid wealth tax by spending. If you sell a bunch of shares to earn $100k then take a year off to see the world, you pay no tax on that (other than sales taxes etc).

- In practice a lot of things aren't covered by wealth tax. If you spend on a fancy new TV it's not measured. Only the big ticket items are wealth taxed (houses, financial assets, art, cash piles, etc).

Did you consider log4js?

> It's a shame that maintaining the web is so hard that only a few websites are "good citizens"

It's not hard actually. There is a lack of will and forethought on the part of most maintainers. I suspect that monetization also plays a role.