You don’t need to use GOG’s launcher, they provide offline installer downloads.

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.

Stop trying to make China our enemy. There is no reason we shouldn’t aim to improve relations with China.

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.

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.