While I’ve no idea of your exact needs, I’ve been a happy Affinity customer for almost 3 years now (freelance web dev/designer).

It has everything I need (vector work, photo editing), and no subscription.

Dating myself here but, DOTA.

Yes. I just replaced the ones in my wife’s Sony earphones by following a step by step guide on ifixit. Cost me $15 for the batteries including shipping, and they’re not even any sort of exotic type or size.

Edit: okay just read the article. Guess these are a lot more convenient to replace than the Sony ones.

I’d argue that a luck of the draw issue is worse than a consistent, across the board QA issue.

Still can’t bring myself to bite the bullet and buy a Pixel because of these “horror stories”.

TIL Star = Hulu. I thought it was just their more grownup-oriented channel