Your local library can be an awesome source for audiobooks. And don’t forget to check your local thrift stores and flohmärkte once in a while, many audiobooks for 1 - 2 €, also many recent ones… Rip it, put it on your audiobookshelf, it is very easy and fast for most audiobooks.

cool, didn’t know there was a name for it

Because frontend webdevelopers use some very large framework to make things “look nicer” and don’t care about resource optimisation? They do the opposite just for some silly colouring effect, shade etc. The old ugly stuff was a lot smaller and quicker to load.

They want ever more power and control. Money is just a tool to get that. Most billionaires are sociopaths.

Same. Spent about 65 € I think, now it’s looking like > 200 €

I think even both teddybears and soap are quite regulated markets in EU, could probably require a capital to enter the market a lot larger than you would think, to get anywhere beyond the local flea market level of sales.

it will become like many appliances… You want a dumb tv? Possible, but it will cost you more than a smart one. You want a dumb fridge? Fine, but soon it will cost you more than a ‘smart’ one you can’t even turn on without making an account somewhere and registering your email and phone