Fantastic reply. Thanks for your thoughtful post!

What functionality is missing?

Think about written English: it’s phonetic.

How do you learn to RECOGNIZE A WRITTEN WORD when you don’t know what it sounds like, let alone what the letters mean. Or becomes a matter of a hundred thousand different symbols, recognized as a unit, removed from the auditory context.

I can’t imagine how any deaf person learns to read, to be honest . It’s an astounding feat.

I’m confused regarding why you don’t consider telegram a private messenger.

I saw your previous post but didn’t comment.

IMO KDE neon is just phenomenal. Try the live CD before you make a choice.

Especially in a competitive market where compelling alternatives exist.

Especially in tech.

And especially in software.

The VLC team are heroes. Three cheers.

And equally importantly: not run the software you don’t want

So he wants to kill 90% of the populace in a geographical region.

How does anyone deny this is genocide?

That’s helpful, but why declare a 50% devaluation? Isn’t that just determined once you peg to the dollar and float your currency?

What does he say this achieves? What is his endgame with respect to the devaluation?

Ninite may fit here, to

LOL

I don’t really understand your argument.

Bitcoin has outperformed stocks by about 100,000-fold. All you need is a fiver to invest at the beginning.

Nothing could make me consider Oracle for anything, ever.

X2go is a great option.

In my opinion you’re overthinking it.

Just get a live distro, put it on a USB, and boot into it. If it meets your needs, then install it.

Google can accommodate billions of searches globally on pages it doesn’t control

Microsoft can’t index a tiny fraction of that number, even for it’s own users.

What a black eye for Microsoft engineering.

Try kagi.com

I you have to pay for it, but t’s amazing