Isn't it far side of the belt?

Go for it. It's surprisingly easy, relatively inexpensive and gives you way more control.

For me, the main reason for the switch was to get my own domain. It's surprisingly easy. This way, if I start to dislike the service handling my emails, I can easily switch it without changing my email address. Leaving gmail and getting somewhat more privacy is nice, but getting control was the main reason.

Thanks, that helps.

I know very little about passkeys and would like to make use of this question to ask my own. How does backing the passkeys up work? Can I just keep a backup somewhere like with a password manager database? Can I use it anywhere, even if I want to use it one time on a friend's device, for example? If it's tied to a device, what if I lose it? What other practical advantages and disadvantages are there?

I know these are probably naive and simple questions and I could find the answers myself, but I remeber when I was trying to find similar things out about authenticators. I didn't want to use them until I learned how to make backups, use it on different devices, including those that are not mine etc. It took quite some time (of not that active looking, but still), most easily-found sources tend to not offer alternatives, especially when most people just use Google, Microsoft or Apple. I would very much appreciate some basic guidance from someone who has experience. I could probably ask AI, but honestly, I probably trust a kind internet stranger more.

Jailtime for who? Someone in China who simply won't travel to Europe? Besides, I don't think EU can do that, that would have to be done by a country.

Wow, they did animals too? I only knew about the glass flowers and plants.

Come to think of it, what's to stop me from making my own free, open-source independent scientific journal right now?

Technically, nothing. Practically, way more than you imagine. First and most important, you almost certainly wouldn't be indexed by large databases. These provide easy metrics for papers and journals that can be easily evauatrd by funding agencies. If you don't have an impact factor, sciencists cannot use a paper published with you to prove to the funders they produced results.

As for other issues you mention later, you usually confirm that the results shown in your published paper was not used in another paper, so exclusivity definitely exists (preprint servers are usually excluded from this).

Good luck finding reviewers in the age of AI. Nobody wants to do it and there are TONS of papers everywhere. Also, you'd need an editor to choose what is even worth sending for review.

Also, I'm not sure issuing DOIs is free, and you must have DOIs.

Fun fact. Including all accidents, nuclear power released way less radioactivity than coal burning. There's only a little radioactivity in the coal, but we burn a lot of it.

Not really, I think. I stopped watching when he decided to scrap the one with similar format and start over with something that looked like it will be at least 4 meters wide.