A (otherwise educated and pretty smart) friend once said to me that she is okay with Google knowing everything since she expects that everybody can profit from the generated knowledge.

See it as an easter egg. The dodecahedron is a find from multiple Celtic and Roman archaeological site. The knowledge about its purpose was lost in time.

We may have won the battle, but not the endless war on this basic human right. The next council presidency will try again with a slightly changed bill. Might switch back to terror prevention from child abuse as the reason. But it will never stop.

Peertube is also (well hidden) integrated to NewPipe and its forks. In the left menu, tap YouTube to find all supported platforms.

I’m speaking of the elephant killer

Feels like there is an imposter between those eight scientific greats

Unfortunately no. Afaik even regular exposition is (for now) considered relatively harmless, with medical professionals bearing the highest risk.

Bad news: Todays needles are coated in PFAS to make punctions more painless.

That’s Gravity Falls, right?

Yes, 2 gigs seem laughable compared to more recent devices but I’m still running an Acer C720 Chromebook with 2 GB RAM as my couch PC/digital typewriter. EndeavourOS plus Plasma and Librewolf (with UBlock Origin and a tab deactivation addon) provide an okay browsing experience and editing documents is rather smooth. Saving said documents may sometimes require it an extra moment to think, especially on larger files.
Even some basic image editing with GIMP and some light 2010ish video games through wine are no problem.

The CPU feels like the bigger bottleneck on my system (maybe to blame on ZRAM).

Worms did 9/11 confirmed
Jet fuel fire can’t melt these worms

I would prefer the hypervisor. It’s cleaner to separate things that weren’t meant to mix in the first place.
Make sure that your gaming VM uses a real harddrive/SSD instead of virtual disk to prevent sluggish I/O.

“Proposed setting for spiked shark organs”
In: New Culinary: On the way to delicacies the world hasn’t seen yet

Will they ever realise that every one would be better off if they made legally owning and consuming media easy and steamlined instead of spending billions on lobbying and propaganda?

Honestly, idk. Anysoft Keyboard and Firefox integrated seamlessly, so I never really checked on system level.
Settings says there is no app set up, but if I tap it, it is listed as the only choice?

I (rather seldom) use FUTO Voice for STT and SherpaTSS for TSS.

You forgot about TOS Trekkies

Person of Interest (TV show) as video game

You can always try out some premade blocking lists as someone who knows way better than both of us has probably already encountered the same problem.
You can also try to use wildcards with your blocking list as some ad and tracking companies add random alphanumeric characters to their URLs to circumvent blocking.

For optics only:
Use uBlock Origin, choose the object picker and remove the banner.

For real blocking: Use uBlock Origin and block the Google domains as suggested in another answer.