Just use some other search engine. No tricks needed to get non ai bs results.

Learn Groovy

Stay away from Groovy. It’s a horrible language. It’s quick to write but slow and difficult to read. It’s conventions make it a very error prone.

Link to the things you mention e.g. you say to get familiar with Loom. When searching for that all I get is some screen recording software (probably not what you meant).

Scala pays better than Java or Kotlin

According to what research?

They address that bad wording on subscription in the comments in that blog. If you have a fallback license to v. 2024.1 or newer the feature will stay active even if you stop your subscription.

+1 for Nebula

Privacy is that you don’t give out your personal info to everyone who asks for it.

• Don’t have any social media presence (no facebook, twitter, instagram, tiktok etc).
• Use privacy friendly open source tools and open source software.
• Don’t use any Big Tech services/software.
• Use paid services where you’re the customer not the product
• Live in the EU (GDPR)

I’m mostly de-googled.

• Email/calendar/contacts are in a paid service (fastmail currently)
• Search is either DDG or Startpage
• Youtube is watched via piped.video (only certain creators that aren’t available elsewhere)
  • Or I use lbry
  • (Should start using Nebula)
• Cloud storage is from Filen / Hetzner
• Maps via openstreetmap (even on my phone)

The only thing I’ve not been able to de-google is my android phone (using an account with no personal info on it). Would use a de-googled android but my banking apps refuse to work in one. Apple is crap.