I did the exact same thing. I'm back to buying real books, but I will say I still use my ereader in situations without good lighting or where the book is just too cumbersome. Sometimes that means I get the book twice which is suboptimal, but I strongly prefer the reading experience of a physical book. My appreciation of the work is even higher when the reading experience is better.
Personally, I think you are very sane for considering leaving FANG for ethical reasons. Of course, in our economic system, there isn't any fully ethical way to participate at all. But in my opinion, there are other good jobs that pay well that are overall less harmful.
If you haven't yet, check out https://devenv.sh (super powered nix shell and more). It's pretty nice for python packages and installs your requirements to a project local venv for you via whatever tool you want (pip, poetry, uv etc).
I've been using it for a couple of years and it's super nice to be able to manage both python and "native" dependencies, and other non-python development tools all together.
I used just nix and whatever python packages are already in nixpkgs for several projects. And that works really really well until you run into an issue with compatibility like I did. It seems to mostly happen when some extremely common tool like `awscli2` depends on a specific version of some package and so it's pinned.
I was a kindle user and recently switched to Pocketbook. I’ve been buying new ebooks from ebooks.com which are often already drm free. For me, there haven’t been any downsides.
Same for me. I've been using emacs now for several years after being a long time vim user. I have never missed vim after switching. Emacs is amazingly powerful. And I never got to a point where Doom felt limiting. I only ever need to make minor customization on top of Doom's packages and it's super easy and I actually like elisp _way_ better than vimscript.
Anyways I don't really care for text editor wars or whatever. I just wanted to second this person's experience with vim -> emacs via Doom Emacs.
I'm in the same boat, made the switch for the org-mode ~month ago. Doom is amazing, and most of my custom config was not necessary, the default modules are super sane.
Doom Emacs convert of about 4 years here, and Evil mode user for about 6 and I summarize my thoughts with: vim is the best text editor, it just happens that the best implementation is inside Emacs.
