You don’t need a car in Singapore. Very good public transport and affordable taxis.

For more brain flipping try looking into hardware description languages (Verilog) or proof assistants (Coq).

Is this a new project that was intentionally started in PHP or something legacy? Any interesting benchmarks? Like minimal wire to wire network processing time and where the bottleneck is?

I saw md5 checksum implemented in scratch.

I would like to hear more

Canonical make it hard not to use snaps so only those who took extra steps are not using them.

Yea, not with firefox, at least not without switching to some third party repo.

Uses KDE and not available to general public.

If you open to do some research - you should be able to stay on Debian and use nix the package manager https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/111099224022408403

Comes with some steep learning curve, almost a learning cliff though. But once past this - it’s good.

That’s what I’m using, but it’s not a fully featured replacement.