Maybe not so much "can afford", but "are willing to".
For all we know OP was living in abject poverty while taking care of their mum, but still making that choice. In that scenario, they couldn't afford, but still did.
Good luck running your own mail server these days, and getting your messages actually delivered to Gmail and Outlook/O365 mailboxes. It's possible, but a hassle, and the rug can get pulled at any moment.
I've broken my winning streak, and found my way back into Eve Online again. This time I'm in Faction Warfare, which actually seems like fun, and not an eternal blobfest all over the place.
they have to rid themselves of third-party clients so that the app store numbers can't be extrapolated to verify site-wide user activity.
I must be having a pre-morning-coffee dumb, but how would this extrapolation realistically work, in your opinion? Those install numbers aren't exactly... exact, from what I understand.
Not sure about the water-proof-ness, but actually a pinetime might tick most of those boxes. I'm happy with mine.