First off, you have nothing at all to fear when changing keyboards, they are all switchable easily through the notification dropdown.
For something wildly different, I'd recommend Thumb-Key, it takes a while to get used to it but I've gotten faster and more accurate with it than with a normal keyboard.
Otherwise Openboard is really good, and there's a fork of it too if you like swipe typing.
Anything that makes you a captive market cannot be private or has to have a free public alternative.
If there is a private non-free alternative, it is inevitable that eventually a politician will be corrupted and opt for less public funding hoping to artificially make the private one much better, and then get their share of the profits.
It's straight up dangerous. It leads people into echo chambers and they feel like they found that content with their own free will. Antivax people during covid and extreme "conservatives" are prime examples
Try reading a book for 5 hours in the city surrounded by your devices, and try doing it in nature with no devices around you.
We didn't change, but our world did and we adapt with it. Of course, things wouldn't be so bad if there weren't people getting unimaginably rich by trapping your attention.
It used to be something good back in ancient Greece, before we had the need to make a supershow out of fucking everything and each time trying to one up the last in pyrotechnics and gimmicks
They're not deranged, it's only natural when your country and all its allies support a certain viewpoint like the single unquestionable truth.
It takes swimming against the river to realize which parts are true and which are bullshit, and most people are either not capable or willing to do that.
First off, I'll start with the fact that PASOK ruined the country by spending massive loans with ridiculous irresponsibility, that's Greece's fault not Europe's.
After that, Greece was now filled with debt it couldn't pay off. Obviously not wanting to go bankrupt, the only way forward was taking another loan in order to "breathe air into the economy". However, the Bailout Programmes actually did everything but that. By forcing Greece to put massive taxes on people and businesses, cutting wages and pensions, worsening work conditions, cutting social spending, the people were brought to their knees unable to get up. When no one has money, it's only natural that innovation completely stops, no one risks opening a business, banks don't risk giving out loans, and society crumbles while the common folk starve.
You might ask, was it a mistake, was the IMF stupid?
Not at all. They were very successful in mitigating their own risks from Greece going bankrupt or leaving the Eurozone, mainly in erasing their dependency on Greek bonds. They never cared about our country or them getting their money back, they just cared about keeping us in a depression as long as their banks stay unaffected.
You can start by watching a few Greekonomics videos that are very objectively pointing out the way you are enslaving our country for your benefit and pinning the blame on us. You are piling us up on debt and enforcing rules against the people and small businesses, making it impossible for any real growth to happen when none of the simple people have enough money to spend on new businesses and goods. You are supporting the politicians that are in favor of your measures, because the Greek people work like dogs to create value that you will reap, and the government and rich class get to keep the change.
I'm dying