Heck of a shot there. Thanks for sharing
Glasses. The ability to see so much better than I otherwise could leaves me astonished every time I put them on.
Thank you for sharing your journey! It's very interesting and informative to see how others have brought more privacy into their lives. I noticed that you were using something from Simple Mobile Tools. I know you said you were going to replace it eventually, but you should soon, especially if you got it from the Playstore, rather than from F-Droid, because they were acquired.
Try Brave Search, Duckduckgo, Startpage, or Searxng. For more detail on these recommendation (that I definitely did not just steal), check out the Privacy Guides page, or The New Oil for a different, albeit overlapping, set of recommendations and take on search engines.
Besides the obvious Minecraft recommendation, maybe Terraria, Satisfactory, and if you're willing to allow it, something like Smite would be another good option for him to play with his friends.
ProtonVPN still offers it I believe
Shoutout to mander.xyz!
And for some reason printers seem to be the place where the spirits are strongest
We have the science folks over and mander.xyz and slrpnk.net. Lemmy.world also seems like a very diverse instance to star whatever you want on
Unashamed. Took me a second
RSS is probably closest to what you're looking for. I just scroll through the phys.org feeds that I'm interested and pick stuff up from there. You probably could use regex to filter it down to specifically stuff like this using a list of keywords, though I'm not the person to ask how to do that.