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How are these smartphone back covers made?

You are right that the metal backs are usually laser etched. The plastic ones on the other hand are usually injection molded then screen printed.

The injection molding is well outside what most would consider "hobby grade", however there are many guides on how to diy screen print (though running it on curved surfaces is an extra challenge). So your best bet would probably be to buy a clone back cover with little or no writing on the back, then screen print on your own custom stuff.

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How bad does the USB-C to AUX dongle ruin audio quality?

The audio quality of a USB to headphone jack can vary wildly as they need to contain their own DAC (digital->analoge converter), tbh most are probably good enough for most people but depending on your headphone setup you may be able to tell. (Depending how much you spend they can actually have better audio quality than a normal phones headphone jack)

Edit: Fiio makes a pretty nice one, but not the cheapest on the block

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They do have their own infrastructure, the old api was 100% killed a long time ago. Before that happened they scraped and archived as many youtube videos as possible (through a distributed computing effort) now they use a combination of historical data and likes vs views to give a best estimation of the true dislike amount. It has been tested to be close but of course not exact.