The alternative is to do the action of not shopping at Amazon and then over time you’ll learn how to shop without it.

You don’t need to stop 100% immediately either but can wean yourself off of it.

I’ve not shopped on Amazon for like 5 years now. I just buy a lot less crap to be honest.

You can make them very robust at error correction. Arguably more so than text.

https://scanova.io/blog/qr-code-error-correction/

You absolutely always make more power than what is being consumed. You need to have overage.

Didn’t realize. Removing those.

Linked some below

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/660302

Apologies, here’s some. Also plenty listed on https://alternativeto.net/software/google-search/

Startpage

SearX

Ecosia

DuckDuckGo has been harming people’s privacy for years now. Ironically in part because it allows Microsoft’s ad network through due to their partnership. Luckily there are many other alternatives out there.