Echo chambers: exist.

The Reddit format also favors hype and content with quick turnaround. (I'm comparing it to classic forums where you can have long discussions that last more than a few hours/days but weeks/months.)

In my experience (years in places such as /r/mechanicalkeyboards), it's very easy to get downvoted for posting only factual information (yes, not being snarky either), not to mention skepticism wrt latest hypetrain.

Quite a few.

As I was finishing high school, I was gifted a book by a prominent politician in my country that promoted climate-change denial. I actually believed it for a while.

However, as I got out of that, my late stepfather went down an esoteric and far-right rabbit hole. I looked into what he read to be able to critically engage with him. There was fake-historian punditry, edgy eugenics, Russian mysticism and for example trash fantasy that has a cult around it (a bit like scientology).

I read mostly non-fiction, and I don't really read for "fun" (though it may get bonus points) but out of interest. My rating scale is a range from "incoherent garbage or actively harmful to society" to "sound seminal work, you should know about this".

Even when I read fiction, I apply similar criteria to an extent. For instance when I read Laurent Binet's Civilizations, I enjoyed about 3/4 of the story and I'd give it 4/5 rating, if it weren't for the alternative history based off fundamentally flawed premises; thus, it ends up 3/5 and I explain the problem with its pop "big history" framing and how the world building leaves out for example crucial trade relations with the other part of the world.

Breakfast of Champions actually turns 50 this year, so it's about to be a 50-50 split.

E-ink can be a game changer for people with deteriorating eyesight.

I gave a reader to my dad who couldn't read from paper for more than 30 minutes, but the reader has enabled him to read for hours on end.

Around here, the most common brand seems to be Pocketbook and I like their recent models quite a lot, even though I was skeptical after my experiences about a decade ago. I eventually got a Kobo Glo HD too, because it was supposed to be quite hackable. However, it's still far from ideal for PDFs and I'm not going to pay 500 € for a fancy 10" model.

It might sound better at certain frequencies, depending on the headphones.

I collect vintage headphones (so generally higher impedance, and often rather low sensitivity). Most of them are alright even with a modern on-board sound card, but a few aren't: in that case, the bass is either muddy, or outright missing, and sibilance tends to be worse.

My desktop amp is some $150 Chinese DAC&amp combo, Audinst mx1 iirc. It's been enough for everything but a pair of AKG cans.

Maybe.

There's a learning curve; if you're already used to the standard layout, it's doubtful, whether it's worth the effort, or not, because the alleged benefits are questionable.

A columnar layout (like Kinesis Advantage, Keyboardio etc.) at least has the added value in reflecting different finger lengths.