So, I've been experimenting with doing as much as I can via a Linux terminal. It's been surprisingly robust. Here's what I've been trying so far:
Toot's TUI for checking my Mastodon account.
Newsboat for my RSS feeds, which is mainly for checking local and national news.
Amfora for checking Gemini protocol sites.
Elinks for HTTP sites.
Accessing wttr.in using curl for weather.
Using RSS for news has had a nice effect of reducing stress of reading news in general. I still feel the need to be aware of what's going on in the world, but just getting headlines lets me go "OK, I get the gist. I don't need details."
The only thing I'm really stuck with is trying to check Cohost via terminal. The login seems to require a modern browser to process so hopefully someone will develop a way to handle that. Being able to check the site would be a godsend.
It really helps when I use my phone as a hotspot. It isn't really necessary for the amount of data itself, but is much more capable of loading information as my wireless service can be weak due to line of sight issues where I live.
It's fun finding new programs to access different data. It feels similar to back when I was first accessing network data via a VT100 terminal way back in college. I think I'm going to get more serious in getting into Gopher and finding a way to access that in a more useful way.