Yeah, this is the main reason I think es8 is superior

Go ask a librarian what app they use

A little too expensive for my taste but very cool

Ah, that's disappointing

To make brand new gifs: DaVinci Resolve, because it is super easy to add captions, and then convert to gif with ffmpeg. To modify existing gifs: GIMP

Thumb-key is different but great

The suburbs are hell, I miss living in the city, and living in a big house is too much work

Ah I see, then I'm out of ideas

I know this is kinda counter-intuitive but try using Steam Big Picture (you may have to remap the controller inside Big Picture)

The closest ones I can think of are these modular ones, but they are out of your price range: https://aiaiai.audio/headphones

From what i can see they are all very similar, I would just read through the documentation of each of them and check out their features. I'm on Hajkey (initially a custom fork of FireFish but now a custom fork of Ice Shrimp) and it was pretty simple to set up, I'm currently in the process of trying to find all the people I follow in my other social media

Hello, typing this from my backup account. 1 or 2 thumbs, I do two thumbs. There are no predictions. I'm a very slow regardless of the keyboard lol so I didn't test speed