Cleans and keeps the solder points clean. Prevents oxygen from reaching the solder joint

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.

There will always be new malware. Just update regularly and use your head. Don’t worry about it too much

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

I didn’t want to go in the details. My point was that sentences in the vercinity of 10 years for murder are common in Europe.

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

There was also the excellent Northstar mod that kept the multiplayer game alive until now…

As an ethnic russian living in Germany this was exactly the way I felt. But afaik this sadly does not reflect the general russian population. I think people have always less problems to accept more lies than to accept that they have been fooled.