If everyone stopped believing in religion (any and all religions), all these religious leaders would lose their power.

OpeNoise is one… it will need calibration but if you weren’t concerned about actual dB readings you could use it uncalibrated

I’ve heard YouTubers say they aren’t making as much from their regular videos and that YouTube is pushing shorts. So the Youtubers have started to focus on shorts. I don’t like short so I don’t watch them.

For me it was magic. I love watching magicians. When I got a chance to do some magic tricks it just wasn’t as much fun as watching someone else do them.

Universal Android Debloater can help with privacy by deleting some Google programs. As a bonus, it can remove unwanted junk from your phone. Github link to Universal Android Debloater

So what is the general approach that people use to go back to see if more comments are added?

For the old Reddit interface (that you can still go back to), between the post and the comments towards the right is a button labeled “subscribe”. Pressing that gives a popup saying “You are now subscribed … for 7 days …”.

During the next 7 days, if any new comments come in, you are notified about them.

If you go to “Your Dashboard” and then the “My Subscriptions” you can see your subscriptions and renew them (for more days or unsubscribe.)

You can use Joplin without any cloud sync at all and the notes just stay on your one device.

Joplin https://joplinapp.org/ It is a free an open source note taking app similar to Evernote. You can keep your data on a cloud service (such as Dropbox) to keep your notes in sync between Android, Windows, Linux and IOS or you can pay for Joplin Cloud storage.

It says that the program depends on a non-free network service. Does that mean there is a subscription or other type of payment involved?

Any program that communicates with USB connected hardware via a non-standard, Windows only USB driver as provided by the hardware vendor. In other words, you can’t just plug a device into any OS and start programing it via a standard USB driver.

Here is a site that rates news sites that may help you pick what sites to follow via RSS. I am sure there are other pages like this if this one doesn’t seem accurate to you. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/

I just use RSS feeds of the YouTube channels I want to follow. I am sure that will be taken away from us soon to force us to do things the way they want. Until then … go RSS!

I am more interested in following topics than following individuals, so I use Lemmy way more than Mastodon.

They could if starting out it was easier. Once you hit people with “sign up for any instance …” you will loose the majority of non-technical people.