An aged account is not even a panacea. I had a reddit account of many years that I haven't logged into for the last two. I check online, it still exists, in good standing. I login one time, post one helpful comment (through a VPN of course, same as I always did), try to log in the next day to check replies - login error. Check through a third party - account page no longer even exists. All comments completely wiped. Thanks reddit! Saved me the trouble of deleting my account manually.

You overlooked the hundred trillion dollar coin inside the [...].

No, money at rest does not create inflation. It is the consumption of goods and services through use of money that does. Trump could mint a one hundred trillion dollar coin and put it on display in the White House, and this would have no effect on prices, even though he is now richer than all Americans put together... as long as the coin stays on display. But the moment he tries to deposit the coin at a bank and start spending its value to pay for goods and services, all prices will skyrocket, because now there are more dollars competing to buy the same amount of food, the same number of houses, the same number of services, that existed/was being produced before, the same that you are trying to buy.

Remember those news articles last year how the wealthiest 10% of Americans drive 50% of consumer spending? That's how the rich influence prices. Not hoarding - consumption. The poorest 90% (those earning less than $250k/year, namely you) only have access to 50% of food and consumer goods and such. One person from top 10% consumes 9x more than one person from bottom 90%. If wealth inequality did not exist and the 10% consumed as much per person as the 90%, then you would literally be able to buy 1.8x as much stuff as you can now, with no other changes in productivity required.

Yes, the water perfectly removes everything and does not splash. I refused to believe it myself. TMI warning: for the first year in my disbelief I would test it personally, for science, by sticking a finger in for "first-hand" comparison. When using paper, no matter how much you wipe, afterwards, even if the finger looks clean, it still has a whiff of ass. Only a full shower after use would remove the whiff entirely. But after using the bidet, the finger looks clean and smells clean, so much so as if there isn't even a need to wash the finger afterwards (though of course I did anyway). In summary: paper = never fully clean, bidet = fully clean.

I think the difference in our bidet experiences is the water pressure. Mine is plugged directly into the water supply, and I have good water pressure, so the pressurized stream coming out is tight and powerful like a water pik. It took some getting used to. But it's easy now and it scours everything. I fear a gabo-style bidet that pours instead of powerwashes (or a spraybottle like the one linked in this thread) would not be as thorough and might indeed require a follow-up wipe. But mine doesn't.

You'd think so! right? But instead it is the idea of smearing shit on your ass with your fingers and a piece of paper that now sounds uncomfortable to me. This is the "completely changed your life" element of it. I've been using paper for decades no problem, but now I hate pooping outside of home because there is no bidet there. Beware!

Bidet - don't need any fancy standalone appliance, just a $50 nozzle that goes under the toilet seat and plugs into the water hose. Haven't paid a penny for toilet paper in 6 years.

Schreibtisch! ~/SCHREIBTISCH! angreifen "$(xdg-user-dirs SCHREIBTISCH)/MeinApp.schreibtisch" bitte! German is amazing.

seems weird to just not use it for desktop files

That's what I said! :D when Ubuntu ignored my soft links and I had to look it up how to do it "the Desktop way" like OP did. On the plus side, .desktop files let you also specify the working path, the icon, and whether to run in terminal or in background.

That's what I use, but desktop environments ignore symbolic links on the "Desktop" for some safety reason.

Desktop shortcuts are ".desktop" files in your /home/user/Desktop directory, which are small text files describing what to run and where. I don't have KDE desktop environment, but there is some way to create a new shortcut, maybe by opening /home/user/Desktop in the GUI file browser and rightclicking empty space/checking menu options for "create link to application" and pointing it to your shell script. Or maybe you can right-click on the desktop directly, but presumably you've tried that and it doesn't work. Worst case, you can write your own forge_installer.desktop file from scratch, specifying the shell script and the working path (if needed). Ask AI how, they are actually good at getting the format correct for stuff like that.