conciselyverbose

Fraud is pretty broad and covers most things that deliberately misrepresent reality to take money from someone else.

You can run Python reasonably well with pythonista or Pyto (I like pythonista, but Pyto supports some PyPI libraries). Apple's Swift playgrounds is pretty decent for Swift. They're all only up to a point, but you can do plenty of actually interesting stuff with them. I use them on my current iPad (and run the Python scripts on my phone).

But 4th gen is old, so it's quite possible none of that works. Maybe web stuff with something like Textastic if you pay for shared hosting somewhere, or a low end VPS isn't crazy expensive and lets you run code. If it's consistent power that's your concern, raspberry pis can be paired with one of those portable USB batteries if it can be charged and send charge at the same time.

If those options are still too expensive, really no clue. It's hard with no money at all.

Librarians don't make shit, and basically the only reason to be a librarian is because you believe in what libraries stand for.

If they're closing during those hours, they probably genuinely don't think they have a choice.

Sure thing, bro. 👍

Yes. It is literally impossible for an organization asking for money not to be an ad.

And yes, showing me a single ad once means I never give them money again. I am not OK with ads.

Yes, it is an ad. Any call to action is an ad.

And its mere presence will ensure I don't give them any more money. The core concept of inserting any ad in an OS is not behavior I am willing to reward.

It's not complicated.

It's an ad.

There's no version of advertising I will ever be OK with.

Again, you're ignoring Switzerland's actual position and their actual history.

Switzerland doesn't enforce other countries' laws.

It actually is. Switzerland isn't part of the EU, and their cooperation agreement with europol is limited to specific things.

They absolutely will not cooperate with bullshit harassment laws against their citizens or businesses.

Not in Switzerland against regulation they consider the dumpster fire of horseshit it is.

Only if they give a shit about some random country's shit law.

There are some treaties in play that allow copyright law to be enforced in some other jurisdictions, but that's a far cry from a VPN. Switzerland isn't going to help you enforce nonsense judgements against companies that don't break any of their laws or laws most of the first world respects.

Is this their revenue on scientific journal bullshit, or total?

Because I'm pretty sure authors of their actual books get paid.