It’s called the ‘inner platform effect’. They are basically replicating parts of the underlying platform (the OS in this case) inside their own application, until the application turns into a platform itself, one crappier than the one below it. You see this happening with web browsers and ‘web apps’.

Then maybe switch to a better OS / Window manager?

I’m sure it would trickle down at some point, right?

Plus get a few billion in charity from the government.

I just don’t get why people choose to be poor. It seems like a difficult way to live. Why don’t these people just get some more money?

You forgot Today and Tomorrow.

The goal is not to find the guilty party, it’s to punish someone.

Canada should just shut down energy delivery to the US.

Or just raise the export tariff on electricity by 1% a day. They’ll shut if off themselves when they realize they can’t afford it at a 300% markup.

Same thing goes for vaults, or all physical locks. It may take a little longer than a padlock but nothing comparable to the amount of time it would take to brute force good encryption. We’re talking maybe a couple of hours or days for a vault vs. millions of years.

What would you say determines whether a kernel is a Unix kernel?

Not what, who. And the answer is The Open Group,