Try searching for hall effect Controllers. They will be more expensive, but don’t need sliding surfaces or easily failing parts.

I go by: If you are not sure you need a good one, buy the first one for cheap. Of you break it, buy a quality one. You obviously need it.

You could also ise a library. The ones I have used are free or almost free

Yes, I can understand both views. It is simply a difference in culture, I guess…

I would say ~10 years is normal for a murder in Germany and other European countries. I don’t know about current Russia but here the idea is jail time should lead to rehabilitation and a bit of punishment. In the US it is much more focused on punishment.

You can disable it in the menu that opens when you click on the button at the right of the address bar

Thats exacly my point. It is not positive and it happens much earlier. In the end it’s less about laws and more about how people think about it

In Germany underage drinking is at 13-14 and also happens a lot

Everything is a trade-off ;-)

Spare parts don’t run on 5-10 watts.

Brother ist the way to go. Also OK for Linux in my experience