Private companies also seek to maximize profits...

So they found less propaganda on TikTok. Good to know!

The data privacy angle was just editorialized headlines, the CEO statement did not mention it.

Wow, it loads almost as slowly as twitter. Users should feel right at home with that loading spinner.

The GameSir T4k has them but I think they can only be mapped to existing buttons. I map them to left/right stick press.
Very nice affordable controller with hall effect analog sticks.

There is Batsh, a simple language with c-style syntax that compiles to bash and batch.

I use Dynalist. It's an outliner, not strictly a to-do app but functions well enough as one. Also useful for notes, brainstorming, project management, or anything where you want text in a tree structure.

I got a notification advertising Minecraft the other day. I'm positive I have all the settings about suggested content turned off. At least you can disable notifications per app, this one was from "Suggested".

No opinion on AdGuard, but there are several options for ad blocking DoH:

• https://ahadns.com/
• https://blahdns.com/
• https://controld.com/free-dns
• https://libredns.gr/
• https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/
• https://rethinkdns.com/

there is a slight trade-off in privacy, as Chrome and Gmail will share URLs with Google to check if they are malicious and temporarily associate this information with your signed-in Google account.

Yeah just a slight trade-off of sending Google every URL you visit.

I fear leaving a laptop in the drawer for a few months and then it crashes when I update it.

Usually you just need to do pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring first. Updates requiring manual intervention are pretty rare.

You could also use a ublock filter. Example:
lemm.ee##.post-listings .post-listing:has(.post-title:has-text(/twitter|reddit/i))