The level of technical knowledge needed to repair things has increased, while general technical knowledge has decreased. People aren't reading Popular Mechanics from the 1950's where "build a hovercraft from an old lawnmower" the building one.
Parts are also a huge problem. Where previously a car alternator, for example, was three discrete parts, alternator-rectifier–voltage regulator, that is now a single assembly. If one of those parts goes bad you need to replace the whole thing, unless you have used parts you can pull from. For some things the assembly is NLA, no longer available.
As for why it's cheaper that comes down to manufacturers wanting to sell you a new one, not wanting to have to spend money on repair stock sitting somewhere, and possibly not having access to it themselves since very few manufacturers actually produce a complete product on their own.
For something simple like a Bluetooth speaker, the power supply comes from one company, the Bluetooth module and amplifier from another, the driver, a display board, the housing, someone designs it and puts that all together. If any one of those chains fails you may not be able to source the part to fix something.
There are usually workarounds to this but unless you are doing it yourself it will be cost prohibitive
Example: friend rented a house with a new stove, gas top, electric oven. Two months later the oven stopped working, motherboard was NFG (no fucking good), it was also NLA. So the landlord bought a new stove. The old one could have been made to work, but the complete functionally would not have been there. If my friend owned this I would have said 'I can make it work, but you will be missing these features'.
If you have a "long and ugly" URL, it's usually because it's full of tracking. Use something like URLCheck or Léon from F-Droid to sanitize that garbage.
You can look at those. I personally would rate them as safe, I previously used both. I found rise up to be faster, though neither was 'fast', but it's been awhile since I used them.
Do you know if Tor Snowflake bridges are monitored as well?
You might want to use the proton VPN from F-Droid then. I remember reading that when India was going to ban VPN usage in the past that proton moved their servers to Singapore and used VPS to make it available in India.
Note that I have used proton previously but no longer do.
You can get proton VPN from f-droid, that does not link you to a country specific store.
You can also use Orbot, or InviziblePro (which incorporates Orbot) to use Tor on mobile.
I had never heard of this app, but ex Palantir, earning crypto money, and their website (which has Google tracking) put me off.
They have a 'Guest Mode' , I don't know how long or how much data you can use with it though. Otherwise you need to signup with phone number, email, or Solana address, all of which they store.
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Did you mean the Genoese navigator Cristoforo Colombo?
I think it is using Latin vs Greek suffixes
Probably related to why America is named after Amerigo Vespucci.
I see no reason why anyone could properly disapprove of a name derived from that of Amerigo, the discoverer, a man of sagacious genius. A suitable form would be Amerige, meaning Land of Amerigo, or America, since Europe and Asia have received women's names.
Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. The scene is pretty good, the film is weird because it's basically two films. The first is their bootcamp, the second is their experience in Vietnam.
There is the 2A left, and the people who were active in places like weekendgunnit (broadly anti government, with a lot else mixed in) on Reddit that are both very anti Russia, or at least anti Russian imperialism. So pro gun doesn't always equate to pro conservative.