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> What if we could have cities outlaw advertising on billboards and instead collect a small tax to make up for the lost revenue

To me there is something seriously wrong with this way of thought. Why would we collect a small tax to make up for businesses' lost profit? It sounds, to me, downright bizarre, like saying forcing factories to be more environmentally friendly would cost money to the business and cut profits so we should take that money from the taxpayers. Wow.

I don't understand why you would use Siri then.

You could manually set a timer. It would probably be quicker than saying "Hey Siri, ..." and you could also avoid using any kind of software.

Oh I couldn't agreed more. Chrome's tab management, in my opinion, was quite bad last I checked. Having lots of tabs open means making them so small that they're losing their title and super hard to click on them. Granted, I haven't used Chrome recently, maybe it has improved. But I think Firefox was better at this and with a tree tab extension you can actually browse the web, have a lot of projects going on at the same time and utilize that RAM.

I haven't found a good enough tree style tab extension for Chrome/Chromium and that is the main reason I am not even considering it as an option.

> there is even a trick to use it on Linux (not the crappy sphinx/kaldi)

What do you mean? What are you using?

I think it would be easier if there was no textbox, no click and insert text. Merely click, have a blinking cursor appear, write anywhere. After you've finished writing click again in an empty space and have the text box created, so you can resize it.

Similarly for drawing.

Ditch the boxes altogether while writing/drawing and have them appear afterwards for manipulation.

edit: Other than that your program looks quite promising!

Everyone here has some great suggestions but as far as I can see no one has mentioned the Michel Thomas courses. I have found his way of teaching quite smart especially if you speak English. I mostly listened to his course and practiced a bit with Duolingo(didn't find it that helpful but it was ok) before going to Spain, and I have to say Michel helped me a lot in recognising structures and phrases. If you combine it with learning some vocabulary it'd be really good.

But as most seem to say and I have to agree, the best thing to do is find people and speak the language as much as possible (native speakers, tutors, other learners).