Shockingly, those are also getting rarer.

Yes updates are slow, but keep in mind that the developers are all volunteers.
Currently the PineTime is a glorified step counter, but with the next update (should be 1.15, I hope) we’ll get background heart rate monitoring. The PR is shaping up and will hopefully be merged before the next release.

Kickstarter has a massive spam problem in my experience and best I can tell it’s not talked about.
I backed a single project, immediately deactivated any and all communication from KS, except for that project, but I keep getting mails from different domains, advertising various stupid crowdfunding projects.
I have 16 blocked mails in the last week alone.

Motorola’s Moto G series is usually supported and relatively cheap.
However, if you’re willing to spend a little bit more I recommend getting a Fairphone, if you can. Simply because they guarantee 10 years of device support after release and you can easily get original replacement parts.
So you won’t have to get a new phone just because the battery died.

The storage requirements might be ever so slightly prohibitive.

I’m not saying it was always the case. Back when ads were just images hosted on the same machine as the rest of the page they were only annoying.
But nowadays even so-called acceptable ads are delivered by third-party servers. So suddenly you have to trust not only the operator of the page you’re visiting but also any advertising partners they use. And since all modern advertising uses a gazillion of metrics that necessitates JavaScript you end up executing code that neither you nor the page operator have any actual need for nor influence on, hoping that the ad network has some sort of vetting process so they don’t end up unwittingly delivering malware.
That’s a tall order in my opinion.

All ads are a cybersecurity risk, not just the targeted ones. The targeted ones just offer new and exciting vectors.

But you’re running Debian, so it’ll be 2 years at least before you get it.

Classic

The markdown you’re looking for is _underscores_ or *asterisks* for emphasis.

Oh, so it’s all about consent? Huh.

Rude

Memorisation isn’t the issue. I know their names and their relation to each other.
But unlike some birds I don’t simply see where North is.
I can make a rough estimate based on the position of the sun, if conditions allow.
But if I’m in the subway tunnels or just emerged I might as well spin in a circle and appoint a random direction North. It’s certainly not an intuition as it seems to be for some people.

What’s wrong with taxi services?
From a client perspective Uber and Lyft don’t solve any issue that taxi services don’t. They may be more convenient/accessible by providing an app, but that’s not an unsolvable issue.
But from a privacy perspective taxis clearly have a leg up since you’re an anonymous customer.

Maybe it’s time we give up on computers. We’re simply not good with them. Or maybe it’s just time to oxidise all the software.

Play store is a shitshow. It’s so hard to spot the few actual gems in the absolute avalanche of ad-ridden asset flip time wasters that have the only goal of harvesting your data or running a monero miner in the background. The chances are better with paid games, but even then it’s hit-or-miss.
I gave up on mobile gaming long ago.

It’s Hellsing Abridged for me.

The potato rested for 8 hours, the potato should get into gear or the potato is gonna be late for school.

pavucontrol probably the best option given your distro. Go with that.