Vim is actually highly ergonomic; you can do everything with a minimum of keystrokes without moving a hand away to a mouse or touchpad or oven the arrow keys. If that’s worth the time investment to learn it, is a highly subjective question. But I’d say it’s a lot easier than many people think.

PSA: GrapheneOS is not affected by this, one of many good reasons to use it.

Do you have a source for the oil money story? I’m not dismissing it, just would like to follow up on it.

I like Deutschlandfunk for my basic news. They have their own app Dlf Nachrichten (German, free), as has Reuters, which I use as a secondary source for international news (English, 1 €/week). When I have more time or want to follow something specific, I go for the web versions of newspapers, mostly Süddeutsche Zeitung (German, subscription) and The Guardian (English, mostly free). For European politics Euractiv is pretty good (English/German/others, free).

I know you said no RSS but you should consider it. It’s really the only way to handle more than a handful of news sources. I’ve been very happy with Inoreader for years, which allows me to manage over a hundred sources, some of which I only want to monitor for specific subjects.

I can understand that many people find reaction videos useless and low-effort content. Personally, I enjoy rewatching a lot of shows and it adds to my enjoyment doing so with somebody else. I have nobody in my life who is interested in that, so reaction videos work as a parasocial substitute. I can still see people I like (as little as I really know them) sharing the experience and sometimes having interestingly different reactions and observations.

BTW: For those who think reaction videos are a sensible way to not pay for the original content, may I introduce you to BitTorrent?