manmikey

I’m with you OP, left to right ~ Knives ~ Forks ~ Spoons~ plus the tea spoons go in their own auxiliary area.

Windows saves me prescious time to do other things. I went through the Dos, Win 3.1, Windows XP era thoroughly enjoying my time spending hours and hours learning about how to get my new sound card, network card , printer, game , software, mouse, newfangled USB device or whatever working, then my priorities evolved and the time pressures of family and career mean I just want my PC to work and for my use case it does. I’m heading for retirement soon so maybe I’ll have more time to give Linux a go

1 was 18 and bought a Commodore 64 and cassette drive, I played games, Fairlight, Psi Warrior and Elite (my god the hours I spent on elite, I’ve craved that experience ever since and never quite equalled it. Plus I dabbled with basic programming, quickly moved on to an Atari ST, WOW that was a quantum leap! Then the first PC computer a 386 DX40 and Doom changed my world forever…been a PC gamer ever since

Mine are Shokz, I’ve had them a couple of years now with no issues at all, the battery lasts for many hours, I’ve never had then run out for.my use case

Bone conducting ear phones, I have tiny narrow ear canals and can’t get any type of ear bud to go in my ears, the bone conductors are a revelation for listening to audio books, radio and music when I’m out and about

During Covid (I’m a key worker so had to keep going to work) I started to take a small flask of coffee to work each morning and supplies to make more. I’ll make a further couple during the day…the coffee is to my taste and saves time and money during the day ☕

SD cards, SSD, USB drives, any form of computer memory really and replacement batteries too eg for cameras. I suck up the cost and buy directly from a reputable manufacturer.

I use a small Sandisk Clip for my audio books, I plug a mono ear bud and I get hours and hours of listening time

Thanks for the tip, I’ll look into these

I got Shokz open run, they hook over your ear and the left and right conductors are connected by a thin band that goes round your neck. They do take a while to get used to but if you can then all the problems of ear buds & tiny ear canals are gone

Bone conducting earphones, my stupid tiny ear canals mean I can’t get any ear buds, to stay in my ears, the bone conducters have changed my life…

• my custom made silicon ear plugs are a close second, sweet sleep when I’m on night shifts

Many years ago, my 2 kids an me playing multiplayer COD 2, I had 3 networked PCs we went in the map and worked together, I was in the first floor laying down with my sniper rifle, the kids were covering the stairs behind me, we owned that map, working together it was an amazing and thrilling experience for all of us, we talked about it for ages afterwards and was the started of many great COD multiplayer sessions for us.