I use newsboat, it is dope. QuiteRSS, Liferea, Newsflow etc are all decent too. On Android, Flym is great.

I’m not comfortable using something like inoreader/feedly simply because I don’t want data aggregators to have a record of my interests and activity. So local clients like the ones I mentioned, or self-hosting TTRSS or Miniflux if you have the infrastructure and inclination is the way to go.

Afaik it is just rebranded Mullvad, so pretty decent.

Solid free plan, one of the 2 free vpn providers I still somewhat trust (other is Proton). They are based in a 14-eyes country though, FWIW.

Vimtutor is so easy and fun, can’t believe I was on Linux for years before trying it. Now I don’t even have any other editor installed on my system

Or if you make <300k queries a month and don’t want to set up hardware yourself, use NextDNS. Paid plans are very cheap too and worth it imo. Easier to set up and use even when you’re on the move.

I decided to settle on uBlock medium mode + JS off by default. Typically I was using uMatrix only to enable and disable scripts and no other media so it works fine for me.

This, absolutely. Shit loads incredibly fast and 90% of the web doesn’t need JS.

That said, it’s always a good idea to have a separate browser or browser profile without uBlock for your non-general browsing needs so that you don’t have to go through the hassle of granularly enabling things again

NewPipe is FOSS and better than Vanced imo

I didn’t know you could have different extension settings for different containers? My main reason for separating profiles is that. Well that and I have the different profiles mapped to different keybindings so launching them is super easy.

If you’re not going full Vim, micro is a better fit than nano imo. Saner keybindings and more minimal looking too out of the box, while probably being able to do a lot more.