You can find a password checking utility on haveibeenpwned.com (the tool doesn't send your password to the server, but only the first 5 characters of the hashed password, which is very safe). There are CLI tools on GitHub you can use to bulk test passwords. They also provide a downloadable list of hashes.
Alternatively, check if your password manager has a built-in tool for checking for passwords in known databases.
I would just undo all the mergers and acquisitions. In 90% of cases, this just results in the games being worse, and the magic that made the studios great is extinguished.
Android is not privacy respecting by design. Your best option is to use a normal PC running Linux. However that has its own drawbacks, like lack of HDR support, no Dolby Vision or TrueHD, incompatibility with streaming services DRM.
Return to the office isn't about medicine, it's about entitled executives power tripping over the workers. At every medium/large company I worked for, upper management lived in its own bubble completely disconnected from the rest. I can give so many examples of poor decisions made by upper management that had a huge negative impact on the company and especially the workers. But regardless, they never gave a shit about our opinions and feedback. They didn't even tell us why they made those decisions.
Not only that. If you buy an app, you are at the mercy of its creator. If they decide they want to fill it with ads and tracking, or switch to a subscription model, there's nothing you can do. You can't rollback updates, you can't install an older version from the play store. If they decide to remove it from the store, you won't be able to install it any more.
Sure, the US is the hemorrhoid in the earth's ass, but you do realize that the US is just one country. Nato is an alliance between many European countries.
While in this particular case I agree with you, I've noticed a frustrating trend that just keeps getting worse. On one hand, search engines are failing to adapt to content farms. On pretty much any topic, you will find these generic sites that have poorly written articles that are hard to distinguish from AI. Try searching for "best linux distro" to see what I mean. Even on programming topics, you will find many sites that simply copy the content from stackoverflow and github.
On the other hand, people aren't making websites and blogs anymore. More and more people are only using social media platforms, which aren't being indexed by search engines. I hate seeing that so many discussions are now on Discord instead of forums. How many Twitter threads have you seen that should have been blog posts?
It sounds like you've been browsing some pretty sketchy websites. I have yet to find malware bundled in torrents from trustworthy trackers. And I've been pirating for many years.
As someone who has more hobbies than time, I seriously don't understand how people can have no hobbies. How do these people live? How do they find fulfillment? What do they do in their spare time, only entertainment?
I feel the same way. When I was a kid, my parents had a pretty small collection of tapes of religious music, and that's the only stuff they would listen to. Once I got my first internet connection around the age of 12, a whole new world opened up.
Today, I listen to music all the time, while working, while driving. It was so weird (and depressing) to go on a trip in my sister's car who doesn't listen to music.
It's far more expensive than traditional rail. You can get pretty high speeds with traditional rail too, in western Europe there are trains reaching 300-350 km/h.
What the duck?