...and then my Kobo Clara briked itself into a bootloop after i connected it to WiFi.
Also beware how you buy ebooks from kobo's store or you won't be able to un-drm them (i.e. they get locked to the kobo).
All in all they do tend to be nice hardware and my usual recommendation.

DNS, most web searches, trackers in apps, location data, just to name a few. Ad blockers won't help you there.

the bank can’t reissue

You mean they won't. Change banks or threaten to do so, might work.

Reddit refugees

Calling them refugees is an insult to actual refugees.

Have you actually watched the video?

You can choose not to use social media... the choice is way harder for avoiding plane travel unless you can afford the time and money to use other means, which most people don't.

Although suffering from some technical limitations, Gemini's a rabbit hole of interesting stuff and a breath of fresh air from all the post-<blink> ad-centered js-enabled garbage that has become the WWW.

Let's all just ditch the ISS, go cold war on each other and build our own stations and bases... sounds great.

/s

Clouds... clouds everywhere...

Gentoo, Slackware and Devuan can be used without svchost for linux.

They'll only stop when they rebrand it to systemd OS.

Do es the market really not want that, or do the manufacturers prevent it from happening?

Of course they don't want that. Build-int obsolescence is a thing, has been for ages and not just in cars.

No reference to Orwell's 1984?