I can only help with the last part as I use audible. Have you tried Voice? https://droidify.eu.org/app/?id=de.ph1b.audiobook&repo_address=https://f-droid.org/repo

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.ph1b.audiobook

Soulseek is my past, present and future.

Trying to buy a smallish TV recently for my bedroom and most were hdready ballshit

For YouTube I think the only options are revanced/ revanced extended or Firefox Nightly with a whole bunch of extensions.

My car stopped accelerating. Why am I still going so fast?

We’re having the exact same issue in the UK. Plus the price of energy pretty much quadrupled.

The era of cheap debt had to come to an end, and before the pandemic the BoE had a plan to gradually raise rates over a 5 year period. Then COVID happened and they dropped rates even lower than they had been before! So rather than a gradual end to the cheap debt era we’ve shoved our foot on the accelerator and gone straight into the wall. With no airbag or seatbelt.

At the same time banks get more cautious about who they lend to. If you’re rich and a cash buyer is great as you can snap up a few houses at discount to add to your portfolio. Normal people, not so great.