i was the same on my end, and my current phone even has a 3.5 jack (zenfone 9). i used to have aeveral wired headphones ive lost over the years.

in like 2019, i got airpod pros for functionally free, never lost them yet. then had pro gen 2 and havent lost them yet. (again functionally free in my case)

oldest phone was pixel 6, basically when google switched to tensor and added the hardware and software requirements needed for graphene team to support it.

Nintendo owns the rights to the Ron Jeremy “film” involving Mario and never let it officially get released.

librem 5? pine phone?

just dont expect either to be very performant or popular

no, completely valid, but pricing is a psychological question rather than a math question for some.

reason for example products are priced with X.99

some people se it as cost X amount, others (like youself) see it as X+1 amount. the 0.99 is the extreme end of the psychology and choosing 8 in the case of peak increases number of people who dont see it at the higher price

it works if your games are fundamentally different like in this case. the cons about modding is that expectations of sequels are higher than normal because youre no longer comparing the game to the previous, but to the modded version of the previous.

for example, outside of performance reasons, City Skylines 2 had that fate.

never attenpt to make money off any company whose trigger happy litigious. projects doa the moment you even have to consider it.

its because people dont know what they want. Linux has the problem that people want different things, ao theres dozens of distros to choose from.

windows is an example of giving little choice, so people begrudgingly “upgrades” because they ultimately dont really know what they want.

tldr, linux can be choice paralysis. single os is like being forced to drink soylent and only soylent, its got what you need but you might not like it.

not yet, but the wikimedia foundation has been fighting against it expecting that it would be a class 1 site and require it.

ah from shady porn sites, like spotify and wikipedia. definitely protect kids from porn there. /s