Germany at a secondary school, grades 5–13:
That was about 20 years ago and learning Latin, let alone Ancient Greek, had become the exception even then.
Vim is actually highly ergonomic; you can do everything with a minimum of keystrokes without moving a hand away to a mouse or touchpad or oven the arrow keys. If that’s worth the time investment to learn it, is a highly subjective question. But I’d say it’s a lot easier than many people think.
If you have your (encrypted) password manager file backed up to one or more otherwise unencrypted media, then remembering your master password will be enough in a pinch. But yes, for day to day password handling you’d want to have a few more memorized, e.g. the ones you’ve mentioned. As those are passwords you enter daily, it’s usually not much of a problem, especially if you use memorization techniques.
You do realize that you don’t have to read a documentation from beginning to end, don’t you? But for that specific feature you need and don’t know how to use—RTFM!
PSA: GrapheneOS is not affected by this, one of many good reasons to use it.
uBlock Origin works fine with Firefox but it’s not better. Brave Shield is basically UBO rewritten in Rust and integrated directly in the browser code so it isn’t limited by the extension API and works more efficiently.
This! I never understand people who recommend Librewolf or other forks over Firefox just because some default settings are better.
I trust Vanadium but it’s not the best if you like your web ad-free.
It depends. The artist being a bad person doesn’t automatically make the art bad. But I also don’t want to support bad people. So, relevant questions to me are: Is the artist still alive? Do they profit from my consuming their work? Do I promote them perhaps indirectly? The answers will be different for e.g. Lovecraft vs. Rowling, or rereading a book I already own vs. convincing my book club to buy new copies.
Getting downvoted in a What’s your most controversial opinion? thread is just funny.
Having children in general is selfish and immoral. People shouldn’t be forced into existence to give their parents’ life meaning, take care of them, and/or keep civilization going.
Actually, yes! What is “important” in a general sense is a similar question to that of the meaning of life. In the end there is no external, absolute rule of nature that decides this for us but we must create our own values. And privacy is such a value. In part you can derive it from others like personal freedom but that only moves the question. Different opinions on what our values should be and how to resolve conflicting ones in specific situations is the subject of ethics and has been debated since humans could debate.
Because knowledge is power and most people don’t like giving whomever power over them for no reason. Also, it shouldn’t matter why privacy is important to people, the fact that it is should suffice to protect it.
I’ve been using the pro version, Moon+ Reader Pro, for years. It’s great for reading EPUBs, which I either buy DRM-free or, if that’s not possible, in any format and then download a “liberated” copy from Anna’s Archive.
I once heard taxes described as “infrastructure subscription”, which I think is a neat idea.
I actually pay for quite a few digital service subscriptions. Off the top my head: Proton (email/VPN), Mega (storage), Kagi (search engine), Inoreader (feed aggregator), Signal (both voluntary donation and for online backup), Audible (audiobooks), Reuters (news), a few newspaper and magazines (online editions), some apps, …
I used to spend a lot of time configuring different launchers (including Nova Launcher) but since I’ve switched to GrapheneOS, I’m actually quite happy with the stock launcher. It has everything I need — multiple home screens, widgets, folders. And I use App Search as dedicated search and secondary launch app that I’ve set up as digital assistant for gesture invocation.
Do you have a source for the oil money story? I’m not dismissing it, just would like to follow up on it.
I like Deutschlandfunk for my basic news. They have their own app Dlf Nachrichten (German, free), as has Reuters, which I use as a secondary source for international news (English, 1 €/week). When I have more time or want to follow something specific, I go for the web versions of newspapers, mostly Süddeutsche Zeitung (German, subscription) and The Guardian (English, mostly free). For European politics Euractiv is pretty good (English/German/others, free).
I know you said no RSS but you should consider it. It’s really the only way to handle more than a handful of news sources. I’ve been very happy with Inoreader for years, which allows me to manage over a hundred sources, some of which I only want to monitor for specific subjects.
Very subjective. In my opinion introducing romantic subplots is the laziest of writing.