C and C++ teach you what people think computers do under the hood. It's actually totally not necessary to start with them or anything, but learning them after learning Python/Java/C# smooths off the rough edges that learning high level languages leave on you. Programming is 80% figuring out how to use data structures to do what you want, and most high level languages either focus on data structures too much (Java, C#) or too little (Python, Game Maker, etc). When you have to work with data structures at a lower level, you gain a deeper understanding of how to best use them and why they're designed the way they are, and it stays with you when you go back to high level languages.

apple: secure, evil, pure walled garden

android: insecure, a little less evil, barely a walled garden

I use android because I don't have several hundred dollars to spend on a phone.

The main problem with Android is that so many device makers don't issue security patches for more than a few months. Lineageos is actually a serious resolution to this problem, at least for major-ish devices, and not some weird ricer/hacker/tryhard meme, even though those are mostly the kinds of people that use it. My current phone only saw patches for a few months, and stopped getting them before KRACK (the wifi bug) happened, but I bought it because I knew Lineageos supported it and I would keep getting security updates after the manufacturer stopped caring.

Linux is a world where programs that use insecure libraries in secure ways get booted out of official distribution channels because there's no way to keep track of things at that fine grained a level, all the people who maintain the individual programs you depend on to go about your daily routine get bored after a few months and stop doing anything, basic programs like the file manager are missing basic functionality because nobody decided to add it yet, and the HID USB drivers stop accepting new devices until you reboot if you reinsert them too many times.

On the other hand there are a million minor usability improvements when someone like me switches from Windows to Linux so it evens out. The only real reason I switched back to Windows is because of that USB problem making me scrap a modded mouse I was using to learn microcontroller programming.

I have no idea. Normal people probably don't think about how much translation changes the style and content of prose. I could go on about it for days, but the bottom line is that translation is still basically an esoteric discipline.

I could explain to you ~real reasons~ why so many C and C++ programs are unsafe, but aside from the fact that it'd be a massive wall of text and appear authoritative, it'd probably be meaningless to you unless you're skilled in multiple programming languages and read lots of other people's code. Explaining, in a convincing way, why ~translations in general~ are a bad way to judge writing quality, rather than just why this particular translation is a bad way to represent FSN, would require similar levels of detail.

It's easier to say something like "I'm not saying you shouldn't read translated stuff, but don't trust translations so much", but that has its own problems.