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If you were right, literary works like Nikolai Gogol's "The overcoat" wouldn't exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overcoat
The system isn't perfect but, in my experience, it works 90% of the time. The remaining 10% requires manual categorisation. I suppose it also depends on how simple or complex your budget and your spending are.
I get that every person is different, so what works for someone might be dysfunctional for someone else. But I wonder if there's a growing tendency to over-emphasise things that aren't "perfect" or the perceived friction caused by different ways to approach or solve things.
Perhaps it's my own personal bias but the same way I like using Ubuntu, I think Windows is fine, as well as MacOs. They're fine the same way many other products I use are. Often, I struggle to find big differences between the stuff I use. I mean, I can see the differences (often small, rarely big), but I'm the same guy. I'm not that special.
Apart from people who are knowledgeable or at least curious enough to search for alternative options, I suspect many people don't even know what a domain is or that they could register one for them to use. The jump from "why pay for email if Gmail/Outlook is free?" to "register a personal domain and use it for your emails" is too big.
I don't have the ideal solution but what I've suggested to friends and relatives is they should consider paying for their personal email accounts. Most of them don't care but some do and, as a result, at least try to understand what they want or need and are willing to pay for.
It was the start of summer school holidays back in the late 1980s, in my teenage years. I went to my local library and, because I didn't know what I wanted to read, I decided to pick one book blindly from the fiction section. I didn't know what book I had borrowed until I got home. I had never heard about Bulgakov or that particular novel. I had no easy way to know who that writer was or if the book was good or not. I was tempted to return it. But I didn't.
I read the book over several weeks of a particularly boring (and lonely) summer. I enjoyed reading it although I didn't love it. Looking back, I suppose that book gave me something I needed in a completely random way.
I suppose feeling better overall (physically and mentally) makes it easier for me to have a more rational relationship with food.
According to the 2021 Census, 656,272 Indian British live in London. Hounslow total population is 288,200, 21% of them Indian or around 60,000.
British Indians are the second largest ethnic group in Hounslow (after "white"), but there are almost 600,000 more living in other parts of London.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/census https://stats.hounslow.gov.uk/population/#/view-report/63aed...
I'm not sure this is how George Monbiot defines himself, but for me he's an intelectual. There's a place and a value in what intelectuals do. They think, they talk, they discuss. Historically, good intelectuals have helped societies identify problems by asking questions and challenging common assumptions (something very difficult to do well).
And, of course, we need engineers and people with the right technical skills to develop solutions that improve life in practical ways.
I don’t live in the US, I don’t follow US politics and I have literally no idea about what's going on in Florida.
What I meant was that before I make the decision to move email providers I would like to see more information about the company (the usual stuff. I suppose I could ask directly but being able to find that information on the website would be nice.
Some small providers are completely transparent about how small they are and share the information about the company. See, for example Purelymail https://purelymail.com/about .
Edit/note: To be clear, the point I tried to make has nothing to do with the location of the provider but about the lack or limited information about the company.
And a recent tweet https://twitter.com/jpazvd/status/1628429415364325376