I try look for higher sold numbers and review amount. Than looking for the sellers rating and also numbers.
A lot of brands have official AliExpress shops which you can reach via their website.
On the other side, get yourself a limit you're comfortable to "lose" and buy expensive stuff locally.
Yeah... 2$ If you have everythingv else on hand and specific circumstances...
AFAIK only credit card, PayPal and sepa/debit card
Yepp, 1 ipv4 is included and domains are optional. Seems like ionos.com offers it for 2$ while .de is at 1€. https://www.ionos.com/servers/vps
Had this topic today with a friend. ionos offers 1 vCore, 1GB Ram and 10GB SSD for 1€ a month.
For friends and family try listen to their problems/annoyances. Usually people tend to complain until they fix it by themselves and if not, it's your chance to shine.
If you want to contribute something to a hobby, ask first or gift cash. Most of the time the gift will be not needed or already surpassed with better/more expensive gear.
Yesterday or a few days ago I've read that people already jailbreaked the vision. So if you must have one, you will still be able to tinker with it.
Avast bought it.
There is "I still don't care about cookies" which is a fork of the original or use any other plugins mentioned.
I prefer older used flagships. It's hardly depends on the use case though. I don't care about camera, games or what so ever. Phone, messenger and maybe a handful of apps for social and homelab. So for me it's max 100€
Check inside your BIOS if you can add a delay to the startup or disable skips for a faster boot. Sounds like the drive need some time to wake up.
The bearings of the OG case-fans started to fail so I reconfigured them to kick in when the CPU got hot. One after another I ended with only 1 left working all the time...
Had them all replaced last month, 4 fans on max are quieter than the last at 50%...
Firefox with a handful of extensions, same on phone.
Last time a site "needed" chromium based a user agent switch did the miracle...