It's interesting, this is basically a Reddit comment but because it's a blog it has weight and people feel obligated to respond. Maybe there's a point to having a blog after all.
One thing you can do is use all these things as teaching moments. Teach your children how to recognize all the ways they’re being manipulated, both by media, and in person by other people.
Build up their awareness and defenses at an early age, so they’ll be less vulnerable and more prepared when they go out on their own one day. Dark patterns, psychological manipulations, emotions and biases are all things they need to be aware of.
Once people are aware of how they’re being manipulated and can recognize it in real-time they’re less likely to fall victim to it.
Opamp is gone, Burbank Electronics is gone, Norton Sales is still there but a fraction of what it once was, All Electronics is still going, Apex (best of the best) still going, and Luky's hardware is still open.
What's preventing them from making their own tune, put it on cdbaby or whatever it was to get it into the content id system, and then issue copyright takedowns?
If you're a tinkerer, I'd seriously recommend using something like ACC (Advanced Charging Controller). It'll automatically cut your charge off at ~80% and slow the charging if it's heating up too much. Should greatly extend the service life of your battery. You can pretty much just install with Magisk and forget it. Perhaps it's too late for your current phone/battery but maybe on the next one.
RPi's are very nice, but for a project like this, I'd reach for an ESP32 or the like - they are cheap, have analog input, and WiFi built in, some with integrated OLED displays, and are Arduino compatible. Also scriptable with Python or Lua.. So, similar to what the author did, but skipping the RPi for communications.
You can get them down to very low power by having them go into deep sleep and only wake up every minute or ten to take a reading, hop on the network, and publish the value somewhere, like an MQTT broker, or send a text etc.
If one can get a digital rather than analog sensor for a few dollars more, then chaining a ton of them up to a bus like i2c should make for a simple many-sensor-one-microcontroller setup: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4026
The same author has moved towards proposing 'matereality' assessments in a different way: https://www.blorrainesmith.com/single-post/when-materiality-...
There's also groups advocating for alternatives to ESG, such as https://www.r3-0.org/