Those comparison charts like the one you posted are unresearched/uncritical garbage made to sell affiliate links. They'll never actually give a harsh review to anything listed because they want you to buy something
Your best bet is to ask owners' groups for each phone you're considering for reviews and buying advice and weighing that yourself.
Temu is literally just a front page for AliExpress (which is itself a public/consumer front end for Alibaba), so no difference there. You'll probably find a lot of junk and some halfway decent products.
No clue how Aussie eBay is, but here in the states it's done a lot to clean itself up over the past decade. A few years ago, I never even considered it when online shopping because of how many dropshipping SEO-manipulating accounts there were. It was hard to find quality items from real accounts. Now, I do almost 100% of my online shopping on eBay. Mostly books, which are usually dirt cheap used.
AVL is great, if not worsening and getting outrageously expensive these days. TBH I don't even live in Asheville proper anymore, I actually like not paying $2k per month for rent. I've got my eyes set on Detroit in the next year or two.
Firestorm is the anarchist bookstore, no? I've not been but it's been on my radar for years. Might have to check it out this weekend now that you've reminded me.
For "everyone" meaning...? Part of the whole "undocumented" problem is that theyre un-documented. How can we issue forms for people we don't even know?
The ADL is a Zionist organization that was literally created for no other reason than to defend a Jewish child rapist. It has nothing to do with "social justice" or anything of the sort.
Can you elaborate on your RSS setup? In 2025, I'm planning on switching entirely to text-based mobile browsing and RSS sounds like the best avenue for me
Yes. If anything, I avoid buying products that I see ads for, period. My ad blocking is pretty extensive, I'd say, so any ads that I do see must have a pretty huge marketing campaign behind them.
I can't trust that a company can make good products when theyre spending so much conspicuous money just on advertising. Makes me feel like the company is 10% R&D, 90% marketing.
Word of mouth is pretty much the only way I learn about new products, and even then from trusted groups/people. Reddit posts pre-2016 or current, but niche interest communities, are the best for this.
The US literally accepts thousands of undocumented non-Americans every single day