My argument is not targeting people who pretty much don't have a choice.
It's that those who can afford a choice, and sometimes even complain they'd rather support green/fair/local businesses... they aren't ready to pay the greater prices for those products. They want green/fair/local but cheaper than amazon, that's never going to happen.
The problem is that users are reluctant to pay more for the same product.
In my country the difference in price for a dozen eggs laid by free vs caged chicken is 1 euro. The caged chicken live their entire life in an overpopulated cage and are never allowed to walk outside. People don't care, they'd rather save 1 euro.
Companies like Fairphone seem to advocate for the values you describe but they can't possibly provide the same price of those other "dirty" companies. While most people sees the benefit and appreciates the values of such a product, they just aren't willing to pay more for an inferior product spec wise.
The short term goal is only to learn the absolute basics of programming. I only mentioned GIS to give some context on why I was narrowing down the language to python.
She's familiar with all the keywords you mentioned as she already works in GIS, just not as a developer.
The only one pretending mistakes can't happen is the person I replied to. Mistakes definitely can happen and no programming language is fool proof.
Continuing my car analogy, would you rather drive a car with airbags and seatbelts or one without them? Of course you can still have a fatal accident, but it's nice to have safety features that make it as unlikely as possible.
Nah, your ISP doesn't give you enough bandwidth to host your own mini YouTube. You vastly underestimate the bandwidth required to run the service. It's massive, which is why PeerTube is having a hard time gaining traction.
Switching to more private and less data hungry services is a tough process. How private do you want to be? If you take it too far, you won't have a cell phone or a bank account.
Carefully consider the changes you are willing make right now. Start small, progress slowly. Don't get discouraged and remember that total privacy doesn't exist.
Start by swapping search engine, don't use Google or Bing. That's an easy goal that already makes a big difference. Use something like Duck duck go, Startpage or something like that.
Eventually move away from gmail. Get your own domain, create your own email address. Slowly migrate your important accounts to the new email. This can take time but it's not hard and you just removed the 2 largest sources of data from Google.
Stop using Chrome, try Firefox. Personally recommend LibreWolf, a Firefox fork. At the very least move to Brave browser (but make sure you disable the crypto crap). Most extensions exist in both browsers this should easy.
Eventually consider moving to Linux but don't rush it. Study what apps you need, what alternatives are there in Linux. Expect a way worse user experience but a way way better ownership. Try in a VM or live environment before you even consider installing it for real.
Firefox extensions can't mess with Firefox tabs. Sure you have extensions such as tree style tabs but they don't really change the tab bar, they add side-panel with your tabs in a tree style format. This means you end up with a tab bar and a tab panel, which is a bit clunky. There are ways to hide the tab bar by messing with the userChrome file but that's not user friendly at all.
I don't have any particular setup that is too outrageous or different from anyone else. I just use Firefox, whatever is the most recent version in the arch repository. Ocasionally I open the browser and I don't have any pinned tabs, I don't know why. It's not a frequent event or something tied to anything I can think off, it just appears to be random.
When I first started using Firefox on Linux, dragging tabs was really reallyyyyyy bad but they have heavily improved it. UI just feels more polished on chrome
Sync doesn't work for me, though it seems to work for everyone else. It doesn't give me any error or a hint to what the problem might me, which is just bad UX.
Chromecasting an entire tab doesn't work, though I guess can't we can't blame Firefox for that, can we?
My unit tests take at the very least twice as long to run on Firefox
Pinned tabs occasionally just disappear and I have to create everything again. Extensions exist to prevent this but don't work with multi containers, which is honestly Firefox best feature.
I've been moving away from Google in the last year and moving to Firefox was one of my first moves. It's honestly a downgrade in usability but I guess that applies to all alternative products.
I just wish I could sync my bookmarks between desktop and mobile. Seems like no one has this problem but firefox sync just does not work for me. It just says last update was never. Let me know if you know how to fix it.
I've been using it for several years. I have a small server I use with my IRL friends and it works great.