If you do "pip list --outdated" then it should show you which packages you have installed and that are out of date. Look out specifically for the packages that are mentioned in this error message: requests, urllib3, chardet, charset_normalizer.
You can then upgrade them by doing "pip install [package name here] --upgrade".
I have a similar outlook. I kept complaining and basically the answer comes down to "if you don't like it, leave" - so I did. I understand it's not appropriate for all use cases but Manjaro has been an absolute dream for me so far.
I find the first mistake here to be trying to use WordPress. Maybe it's just because I use it so much (or rather, as a developer, I'm often hired to fix other people's mess and broken code) but it is genuinely my most hated piece of software.
Reminder: if you want to be awesome, please help seed the torrents listed on http://torrents.fedoraproject.org/ - just set them up on my Scaleway seedbox.
Are the latest updates installed on all involved devices? My immediate guess based on the information you've given is that it's likely a firewall or some other traffic inspection service that is - for unknown reasons - not liking the requests Tinder is making.
It's not marketing as such but adding it to ProgrammableWeb would be a good start - it's the first place I go when I'm looking for APIs. Here: http://www.programmableweb.com/add/api
Do you consume much media? I ask because I used to be similar to you; I never used to be able to distinguish between 30fps vs 60fps but I find that the more media I consume, the more the difference becomes apparent to me.
Aside from that, one of the clearest videos I've seen the difference in is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-dOuBcxMlk - the commentary isn't very constructive in that video but I see a rather large difference between gameplay clips.
I'm from the UK and have tested this out. From what I see, you have to pay international rates to call UK numbers. I'm keeping it on my phone as a "just in case", but I definitely won't be using it on any regular basis.
It's worth noting that you don't have to use a virtual machine. If you're familiar with compiling basic utilities and installing Python packages, then you can run it without the overhead of a virtual machine. It's generally all on the wiki/Github.
The boot time is usually 12 seconds maximum, and it doesn't take any longer than ~20 seconds for my work to load up (depending on what I'm doing, most of my work loads up pretty much instantly). I don't really miss the few extra seconds it takes.
I site with the static blog generator crowd. I've not heard of anything that would meet all of your requirements but my favourite static blog generator, Pelican, would come pretty close.
You can then upgrade them by doing "pip install [package name here] --upgrade".