I self host them on domains I own.

I’ve been trying to get a short domain to do exactly that, do you know any good brokers?

They should cover R&D costs too, not just the cost of manufacture and materials.

Having all pins present, I wouldn’t be surprised if the drive still gets detected while bending a SATA cable back juuuuuust right so its connector makes contact with the pins.

No problem

For android I’ve stuck to the OG Viper4Android since JamesDSP kinda acts funky.

You should take a look into JamesDSP https://github.com/Audio4Linux/JDSP4Linux

Also the gestures are kinda glitchy and is slow compared to memmy.