What was the rationale for banning all vapes in Australia? Seems excessive. Are cigarettes banned too?

It’s still in very early stages of development. I haven’t tested it yet, but it’s worth keeping an eye on

The neo applications team is working on a digital wellbeing replacement, but it’s still in alpha Neo Wellbeing

These links take me to the home page of the instance in a browser. How can I find communities in the instance and follow them in my Lemmy app (I use connect)?

What does AdAway do differently for root users?

I recently switched to AdAway from AdGuard. More ads seem to get through in apps, but combined with unlock in Firefox websites are completely clean.

That’s good to know. Perhaps I will start using wireguard for direct connections

Have you tried tailscale? It uses wireguard under the hood, but is much easier to connect multiple devices.