That’s just a small subset of what’s possible with genetic engineering (see interesting stuff like golden rice), but yes, Roundup Ready crops are patented seeds.

Your personal data and your attention (advertisements). Those two things are the cornerstone of how big tech makes their money

Relationship goals

The chemist will pronounce it un-ionized, while the plumber will pronounce it union-ized

RSS is awesome. My favorite fun fact is that podcasts are RSS-based, which is why you can listen to any of them from any podcast app.

I believe that NitroKeys are open-source. The New Oil did a video covering them.

Unashamed. Took me a second

Little cardboard vampire

Glasses. The ability to see so much better than I otherwise could leaves me astonished every time I put them on.

ProtonVPN still offers it I believe

That doesn’t matter. It costs money for companies to place adds with Google. That money goes directly to them regardless of whether or not you make a purchase. They then make use of their vast data resources to target people with said ads, which may not affect you, but definitely pushes products (some business people have described a 3x on investment with Google and Facebook ads).

Because Google ads are on nearly every website, and because Google owns such a large bevy of services including search, YouTube, Gmail, and maps, they can collect all of this data into a scarily accurate profile of your behavior, interests, and beliefs. Data that is shared with their partners and ends up all over the internet.

But how do you teach those skills directly

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.

RSS is a great way to get news from specific sources. You could also try following news accounts on Mastodon

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.

Well how do you like to spend your time? Finding people to share your hobbies with is a great way to build community

And for some reason printers seem to be the place where the spirits are strongest

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.

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