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.

Heck of a shot there. Thanks for sharing

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

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

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

Playing music is really important to me. Even something as simple as completing a scale brightens my day a little bit. Reading, though it my favorite activity. There's so much peace to be had by becoming immersed in the written word. So much freedom to take what is there an empower it with your imagination.